11.   Hopkins has a game plan to become the undisputed middleweight champion.

12.   IBF middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins faces WBC titleholder Keith Holmes on Saturday in New York on HBO.

13.   IBF middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins is taking his message to the Web.

14.   In roughly linear fashion we follow Carter from his first, tragic brush with the law and subsequent incarcerations through his exultant rise as middleweight boxing champion.

15.   In the home of the former middleweight boxing champion of the world, you expect trophies and medals to clutter his existence.

16.   In the crowd were several notable boxing figures, including the middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins and Lou DiBella, the manager who put together the card.

17.   On a worldwide conference call Wednesday, Hopkins, the WBC and IBF middleweight champion, said respect breeds respect.

18.   One night he fought a little-known guy named Vito Antuofermo, who would later become middleweight champion.

19.   One difference today is that Rosenblatt is at least the middleweight champion of something, even if it is a fledgling sanctioning body.

20.   Roberto Duran says World Boxing Association middleweight champion Willie Joppy will try to run from him next weekend.