Winky Wright interview

photo by Mike McGuigan

While B-Hop was schmoozing it up with the television media that will give this fight about 3 seconds of publicity, I was able to get some time in with Winky Wright who answer some of the questions surrounding the fight after the press conference for his showdown against Bernard Hopkins. Here is Winky’s take on a few topics.


Winky Wright on those who think this fight won’t be very entertaining:

For those who want to say all I got defense but defense don’t win fights. Look at my fights all the fighters faces are all swollen up. On the 21st it is gonna happen. You haven’t seen Bernard swollen up ....yet. You haven’t seen Bernard beaten up….. yet. Maybe he should have stayed retired. I am putting an exclamation point at the end of his career. He was the great champ but he is going down. He gotta do what he gotta do; I gotta do what I gotta do. Get PPV cause its going down.

On how he feels on being in Hopkins backyard:

This Philly, Bernard’s home, I have no problem with that. Cherish your champion because he stood up for Philly and made is respected for the kind of fights he gave and won. He made history in a respectable fight town. All that said but he still hasn’t fought Winky Wright. He beat southpaws but not Winky Wright. He beat Tarver he Tarver is not Winky Wright. I am here because I earned my way here, no one gave me nothing. I traveled the world and beat everyone in my way. The only ones I didn’t win was because they guys didn’t fight.

When asked where this ranks amongst the biggest fights of his career:

This is definitely not the biggest fight. My biggest fights came against Felix Trinidad and Shane Mosely. With that being said, this definitely is a big fight.

On how he is preparing for this fight:

I have been training out in Vegas, I have a lot of different sparring partners and I am going to do what I gotta do to win like I always do.


When asked what his prediction is:

A win, Winky Wright will win this fight. I take nothing away from him he was a great champion, been here for a long time but he took one fight too many.


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