假日功课：翻译ESPN琼斯战霍普相关报道一篇

非暴力拳击 · 发表于 2009-10-1 14:19:00

Jones, Hopkins sign deal for 2010 bout
琼斯，霍普金斯敲定2010年大战
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洛杉矶—— 十六年后，罗伊琼斯和伯纳德霍普金斯终于再次相聚拳台。

多年来，他们一直说要重赛，但是谈判总是在利益分配时破裂。

但是当两人都突破了四十大关时，双方都没有了恰当的对手，于是他们周五终于签好协定，决定在2010年春季打一场轻重量级的比赛，并一同向ESPN公布了这一消息。

这场比赛将在HBO付费电视上直播。

“十六年后，他们再战并用自己的方式书写历史”，金童推广公司总裁理查德•斯察夫，霍普金斯的推广人说到.“他们俩在今日拳坛都是天皇级的人物，为此我认为这场的胜者将是拳台之王。我们在谈判中了很久，但最终促成了这场比赛，他们俩都签好协议准备出战，这将是一场真正的见证历史的比赛，很多人不相信这场比赛会发生，你猜怎么着？它就要发生了”。
但是，协议的前提是琼斯十二月二日在澳大利亚战胜澳洲次重量级选手丹尼格林，这场比赛已经筹备了好几个月了。

霍普金斯在年末前可以打一场热身赛也是协议的一部分，在斯察夫洛杉矶的办公室的一次采访中他说，霍普金斯，自从11个月前轻松以大比分击败凯利帕弗里克后就再没打过比赛了，他正在筹备一场在霍普金斯的费城老家与琼斯澳洲战同日的比赛。

共识之下，琼斯（54-5，40kos）和霍普金斯（49-5-1，32kos）同意收入五五开（这曾经问题所在）,如果出现击倒或者技术性击倒的话，胜者取六成，败者取四成。

“我不只喜欢这个主意”，四十岁的琼斯论及击倒协议时说“我爱这个主意，超级爱，这就是我的心声，我很期待这场比赛，拳迷们想看好久了，他拖了这么多年都不答应，现在他同意了，我太激动了，都等不及了。”

琼斯说他想过取消与格林比赛，但没实现因为他已经答应了还签了协定。约翰•沃尔特，琼斯推广公司总裁说对格林的比赛可是琼斯的“百万美元支付日”。

“我处在纠结状态”，到大战霍普金斯时就41岁的琼斯说，“我尊敬格林，我知道我欠了合同，但我还是想推后比赛，但我不能拒绝丹尼，这可是他的国家历史上最大的拳击比赛，而且还能为我和霍普金斯的大战热身，这就是原因。所以我给他澳洲最伟大的拳赛从而准备我和霍普金斯的美国最伟大拳赛。我是个讲信用的人，拒绝他可不公平。”

“现在该我回来击败霍普金斯了。”

在他们两人成为明星之前，他们1993年5月22日争夺过空缺的中量级拳王头衔，琼斯大笔分胜出，从此成为十年P4P冠军并在四个级别赢得拳王头衔，霍普金斯在琼斯之后加冕中量级拳王，卫冕二十年并打过轻重量级拳王争霸赛。“我第一次用一只手就打败了他，”琼斯谈到他们的首战，那一场他是带着一只伤右手打的，“我怕什么？”

除了签定协定外还有其他的细节有待讨论：谁先进场，先报谁的名字等等。沃尔特说这些将由投硬币决定。

“直接五五开”，沃尔特说“我们靠硬币决定事宜。我们将定一枚一面印琼斯一面印伯纳德的硬币并有它决定所有，我希望ESPN届时直播，一定有趣。”

斯察夫和沃尔特都大力褒奖HBO的马克•塔菲特的极力撮合。琼斯早同意五五开了，麻烦的是年近四十五的老霍，但最终上周在拉斯维加斯的谈判有所突破。

“很多人都付出很多，但要特别归功马克，他极力促成了这场比赛。”沃尔特说道。斯察夫说比赛地点还没确定，他们会和拉斯维加斯，纽约，大西洋城都谈谈，虽然两人好像都喜欢赌城。

原文如下：

LOS ANGELES -- Sixteen years after they first met, Roy Jones and Bernard Hopkins will finally fight again.
For years, they talked on and off about a rematch, but the negotiations always fell apart over how they would split the money.
But with both men now past their 40th birthdays and no significant fights looming for either, they finally nailed down the elusive deal, signing an agreement Friday for a light heavyweight fight sometime in the first quarter of 2010, both sides told ESPN.com.
It will be televised on HBO PPV.
\"Sixteen years ago they fought each other and went on and made history in their own way,\" said Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, Hopkins' promoter. \"Each one is considered today as ring royalty. That's why I think when those two guys are going to fight it will be to determine who will be king of the ring. We went back and forth for so long, but we finally pulled it off. They both signed and they will fight. It will be a truly historic showdown. A lot of people didn't believe it would ever happen. But guess what? It's going to happen.\"
However, the deal is contingent on Jones' first winning a Dec. 2 fight in Australia against Australian cruiserweight Danny Green, which has been planned for a couple of months.
Also as part of their deal, Hopkins is allowed to take an interim fight before the end of the year. In an interview at Schaefer's downtown Los Angeles office, he said Hopkins, who hasn't fought since easily outpointing Kelly Pavlik 11 months ago, was inclined to fight a tune-up bout. Schaefer said he was working on a plan under which Hopkins would fight in his hometown of Philadelphia against an opponent to be determined on the same day as Jones' fight in Australia.
Under the terms of the agreement, Jones (54-5, 40 KOs) and Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 KOs) agreed to split the revenue 50-50, which had always been the sticking point. If there is a knockout or a TKO, the winner of the fight will get 60 percent and the loser 40 percent.
\"I don't like that at all,\" Jones, 40, said of the knockout provision. \"I love it. I absolutely love it. Love it. That is all I can say. I'm definitely looking forward to this fight. The fans have wanted to see it for a long time. For the longest time, he wouldn't take it. Now he's taking it. I'm ecstatic. I can't wait.\"
Jones said he thought about pulling out of the Green fight but won't because he had given his word and signed a contract. John Wirt, CEO of Jones' promotional company, said Jones was receiving a \"multimillion dollar payday\" for the fight with Green.
\"I'm in a very difficult situation,\" said Jones, who would be 41 for the Hopkins fight. \"I respect Green. I know we signed and I thought maybe I should just pull out. But I can't deny Danny. This is one of the biggest fights in the history of his country. This is how it is. So I'll give him the biggest fight in his country and that will get me ready for Hopkins and the biggest fight in my country. I'd rather let the Green fight go, but I'm a man of my word. It wouldn't be fair to back out on him now.
\"It's time to take care of my business and then come back here and beat Bernard Hopkins.\"
Before either man became a star, they met for a vacant middleweight title on May 22, 1993 with Jones winning a clear unanimous decision. Jones would go on to dominate the sport as the pound-for-pound king for about a decade and win titles in four divisions. Hopkins would later claim the middleweight title after Jones left the division and go on to make a division-record 20 defenses before moving up and claiming the light heavyweight championship.
\"I beat him with one hand the first time,\" Jones said of their first fight, in which he fought with a damaged right hand. \"What am I worried about?\"
The sides have other smaller issues to work out, such as which fighter gets first billing, who walks to the ring first and who is announced first.
Wirt said the sides agreed to settle all of the outstanding issues with a coin flip.
\"This is a straight up 50-50 deal,\" Wirt said. \"We'll settle everything with a coin flip. We're going to have a commemorative coin made with Roy's face on one side and Bernard's on the other and use it to decide everything. We'd like to get that televised on ESPN. It would be fun.\"
Schaefer and Wirt gave a lot of credit to HBO's Mark Taffet for bringing the sides together. Jones had been on board with a 50-50 deal. Getting Hopkins, who would be 45 for the fight, was more difficult, but they made a lot of progress during a meeting in Las Vegas last week among between Schaefer, Hopkins and Taffet.
\"There have been a lot of people who worked very hard, but a lot of credit goes to Mark, who shepherded this thing through and really helped make it happen,\" Wirt said.
Schaefer said there is no site yet for the fight, but that he and Wirt would speak to venues in Las Vegas, New York and Atlantic City, N.J., although they preferred Las Vegas.
Dan Rafael is the boxing writer for ESPN.com