Hopoate... Hoppa. one of the most famous arsehole pokers of all time

Heralds shoddy story

Hopoate is now a boxer, and Quite a boxer by the sounds of the Herald article

" Myer revealed former heavyweight champion Dean Waters, who was ringside last night, was keen to come out of retirement to fight Hopoate but indicated an American opponent was now a much more attractive option for the former Manly destroyer. "

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BRISBANE, Queensland - Former National Rugby League bad boy John Hopoate knocked out big Bob Mirovic for the Australian heavyweight boxing title with a broken right hand and a busted left shoulder.

Boxing enthusiasts were today hailing their brutal battle on the Gold Coast on Wednesday night as one of the greatest heavyweight fights in years.

While Hopoate broke his right hand, Mirovic suffered a broken right arm as the two big men traded thunderous blows.

Mirovic's trainer Jeff Fenech tossed in the towel in the ninth round as Hopoate unloaded a series of damaging haymakers to the 44-year-old champion's head."

Sounds like Hoppa is quite the destroyer...

I reckon hes wasted as a boxer, He should be an advocate for prostate health :P

Owen Glenn - Lays the smack down on the politician's.

Go Owen go I say, Finally someone who just does not give a fuck standing up and speaking the truth. On ya!

What Glenn thinks of NZ politicians - his words

Billionaire Owen Glenn donated $500,000 to the Labour Party and $100,000 to New Zealand First but this morning Mr Glenn was scathing when asked for his opinions on some of the most powerful people in New Zealand politics, including Prime Minister Helen Clark.

On New Zealand First leader Winston Peters

"I don't think people with forgetful memories should be Minister of Foreign Affairs."

"I think people in elected positions and privileged positions need to act ethically and be trusted and I doubt he can be."

"There's the honourable way out, short of dropping on your sword, and let's see what the calibre of the man is tonight. His peers will judge him but that's already a hung jury in my mind."

"I think as the Foreign Minister he's done a good job but he shouldn't let his deputy call me a liar. He won't let that happen again."

On Prime Minister Helen Clark

"She's very self-serving. As I said, I wouldn't want them in the trenches next to me. It's not the money, it's the way you're treated and then you turn your dogs on me, toothless dogs."

On Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen

"He's a bully. I don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling about him. He's not the sort of guy I'd want to spend a weekend with on an island but he's just following orders."

On Labour Party president Mike Williams

"I like Mike but he's really a bag man for the Labour Party."

"I personally don't think he'll stay in his job past the end of the year."

On the media

"There's a lot of fabrication, more than two thirds of what has been written. It's all fabrication."

"You're all accountable too, you know. A lot of stuff has been written that is lies, just to sell newspapers."

This last bit is my fav... giving the parasitical media IE the NZHERALD arseholes...

so so true.

Good work Owen

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.... Where is the mothership

What are the Judges paid for in NZ ? to let people who commit violent crime change their plea after admitting the entire crime

The Herald's shoddy report.

"Hayden Wallace pleaded guilty in April to murdering the two-year-old, who was hit by a bullet from a high powered rifle fired at her house in May last year.

Through his lawyer, Paul Mabey QC, Wallace later sought to withdraw the plea.

A second man, Karl Unuka Check, also pleaded guilty to Jhia's murder in April and later applied to vacate that plea.

The High Court decided in June to allow that to happen and he now faces a trial."

FFS people, Are you Serial?

We dont need no water let the mufker burn

When will they learn

More laptops burning people,

LAPTOP FAIL

now Sony, after learning from tards like dell, wouldn't you think you would test this shit before releasing it to the market...

what kind of mentality do these people have

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10531065

"Missing the funeral of a relative or close friend could have devastating consequences for prisoners, says former Prison Fellowship director Kim Workman."

Maybe they should have though of that before committing Crimes.

New Zealand criminal law is fucked pardon my french, Prisoners in a lot of cases don't deserve rights... Prison is meant to be punishment, not a holiday.