BERNARD HOPKINS vs. JERMAIN TAYLOR (1) HBO* 

Description : Here we have an original full size HBO Boxing pay-per-view fight poster for the undisputed world middleweight championship. MGM Grand, Las Vegas, USA. 16th July 2005.

Hopkins has held at least one of the championships in that class from 1994 until 2005. Having held the International Boxing Federation's middleweight title first, he unified the titles of all three of boxing's major sanctioning bodies in 2001 by winning the World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council titles. In 2004 Hopkins, having added The Ring middleweight championship to his resume as well, became the first middleweight to have held all four of what are considered the major belts when he won the World Boxing Organization's championship from Oscar De La Hoya........

Hopkins lost his undisputed middleweight championship to Jermain Taylor via a split decision. Hopkins started slowly but came on strong over the final third of the fight, but it proved to be to little to late in the judges eyes.. Many press row writers scored the fight for Hopkins. | judge: Duane Ford 113-115 | judge: Jerry Roth 116-112 | judge: Paul Smith 113-115

These HBO & Showtime PPV posters are not made available for public consumption & can only be sourced from a participating PPV outlet hence the scarcity as once the televised event if over, then these posters go straight to skip.

Postage: 10.00 UK Special Delivery... 20.00 International.