From state pen to the Hall of Fame: How Bernard Hopkins became an icon inside and outside...

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The story has been told thousands of times by now, but as it is so central to the man and, yes, the role model that Bernard Hopkins eventually became, it is worth sharing once again. In 1988, after serving nearly five years of a strong-arm robbery conviction, Hopkins was leaving the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Graterford. Not only did Hopkins never come back, not only did he turn into one of the greatest boxers who ever lived, not only was he elected on Wednesday in his first year of eligibility to the International Boxing Hall of Fame, but he became a role model for thousands of young people.

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