It’s actually been awhile since we’ve done one of these. The last one happened to also be a boxing guy, when promoter Bob Arum said MMA was a sport for gay skinheads.

This week, we have Bernard Hopkins, a former boxing champ, telling us that MMA is:

Light heavyweight contender Bernard Hopkins spoke with BoxingScene.com about the sport of Mixed Martial Arts – and Hopkins held nothing back when he expressed his feelings about the UFC craze. Hopkins told BoxingScene’s Bill Emes that grown men should not be watching MMA. He says MMA is not a sport, and compared it to a porno movie. According to Hopkins, he would feel “suspect” [possibly gay] if he bought a ticket to watch MMA.

“Everybody is different. I don’t want to watch two grown men wrestling with panties on. I’m from the hood, we don’t play that. To me, I’m not buying a ticket to watch two grown men with panties on, sweating, [with] nuts in their face. That’s not me. To compare that to boxing is ludicrous. It’s a porno. It’s an entertainment porno,” Hopkins told BoxingScene. “I’m not wrestling a guy with panties on and his nuts in my face, and they call that a sport.”

Hopkins would also tell BoxingScene that he wouldn’t have a problem if MMA had an audience made up of women, but it bothers him that groups of men could get together to watch MMA events.

“I’m not criticizing people for what kind of entertainment they like. I think most of those people have chains and masks in their closets. There is something out there for everybody. I can understand if 90% of women were going to those things but I can’t understand a grown man sitting there with a couple of guys watching two grown men with panties on, sweating. That’s just my opinion. It’s not a good look,” Hopkins said.

Bernard, this is why your sport is dying. Instead of admitting that these guys are remarkable athletes that would beat just about any of you in a fight, you call them gay. I suddenly feel like I’m in middle school all over again.

Let’s take a quick pole: Who would win a fight? Bernard Hopkins takes on B.J. Penn in a fight. Hopkins is much bigger than Penn, but the fight goes to ground and Penn breaks his arm.