"This fight has a lot of politics and a lot of historic things wrapped up around it that I never had really in any fight in a long time...one is of course Golden Boy and the Cold War, and then second, I was the last fighter that left that was on HBO that still signed to Golden Boy; now I'm the first fight to reunite that relationship back to a flaming, in a good way, flame to be able to do what we're doing November 8th, starting big fights that people want to see," stated unified WBA & IBF light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins, who talked about the politics and the history behind his upcoming November 8 showdown with WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev. Check it out!