HEAT WAVE North Philadelphia's Bernard Hopkins is one guy who believes if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. And the gym. Like Mike Tyson, Hopkins likes to turn up the thermostat as high as it will go when he's in training. He made sure it was a sweaty 95 degrees during every session at Johnny Tocco's Gym in Las Vegas in preparing for Friday's rematch with Antwun Echols. The gym ain't supposed to be comfortable.
Fighting is like hell.
I'm preparing for hell. Heat is cleansing to the body, the mind, the spirit. It's the only way to sweat out the impurities in your body from the polluted air, and the processed food you eat. It's my way of working through anger. I feel cleansed after a workout.