Remember Bernard Hopkins' "I will never lose to a white boy" comments at the weigh in for Hatton/Mayweather?

Showman: Bernard Hopkins

Was Hopkins just being a showman, trying to generate widespread media interest in a fight with Joe Calzaghe (remember it had not been made at that point although both men had been calling out each other's name) or had Hopkins just spat out a racist slur?

Read my interview with Hopkins online today as he explains what was behind his comments. I buy what he says in the interview, and his background but inadvertent or not, I think it could amount to racism.

If it had been the other way round, I believe Calzaghe would have been punished by the sanctioning body of the British Boxing Board of Control.

Should Hopkins have been punished? Or will Calzaghe punish him in the ring?