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Tavoris Cloud weighed in at a career-low 173.8 pounds for his IBF light heavyweight title defense against Bernard Hopkins, who weighed 174.4 for their HBO-televised showdown on Saturday. Cloud says he's in the kind of shape to win a career-defining victory. 

Unbeaten IBF light heavyweight titleholder Tavoris Cloud promises the public that he will not only defeat Bernard Hopkins this Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., but will put a beating on the living legend and send him into retirement.

Former IBF welterweight titleholder Jan Zaveck discusses his bout against power-punching prospect Keith Thurman on Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., with RingTV.com''s Ryan Songalia. The fight the HBO-televised co-feature to Tavoris Cloud-Bernard Hopkins.

2012 US Olympian Marcus Browne, of Staten Island, N.Y., discusses his four-round contest on the undercard of Bernard Hopkins-Tavoris Cloud on Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., which will be his first pro bout in front of a hometown crowd.

Nathan Cleverly believes Bernard Hopkins will use all of his veteran skill and guile to “spoil his way to victory” against Tavoris Cloud on Saturday, but the WBO light heavyweight beltholder said he wants to face whoever wins the IBF title showdown.

Tavoris Cloud expects mind-games leading up to his March 9 fight against Bernard Hopkins, but says, "It’s really this simple: How do you beat Bernard Hopkins? You have to go in there and whip his ass."

At a press conference in Brooklyn on his 48th birthday, Bernard Hopkins referred to Tavoris Cloud as Don King's "last horse" and promised to defeat both enemies on the same night, come March 9.