Hopkins vs. Dawson could be moved to the Staples Center in Los Angeles
July 27th, 2011
By Dan Ambrose: The October 15th bout between 46-year-old WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2, 32 KO’s) and challenger Chad Dawson (30-1, 17 KO’s) could be moved from it’s current location of Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey to the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
Hopkins will want to turn it into an inside war if he can – that’s really his only chance of winning this fight. Dawson isn’t a pot shot fighter like Jean Pascal, so Hopkins is going to have to retool of this fight. Hopkins just finished wasting a year of his career with two fights against Pascal, earning a draw in the first fight and getting a win in the 2nd.
Fans gave Hopkins a lot of praise for the 2nd fight, but he shouldn’t have been facing Pascal in the first place because Pascal likely would have been knocked out by Dawson in their battle last year had Dawson not been cut with a head butt in the 11th round. Dawson had Pascal hurt at the time and was finishing him off when Pascal’s head exploded into the face of Dawson, opening up a huge cut over his right eye. The referee halted the fight right there on the spot without letting Dawson try and finish the round or even try to finish off the hurt Pascal. A very strange fight it was.
Hopkins could end up like two other aging fighters that lost to Dawson recently – Antonio Tarver and Glen Johnson. Both guys look great against other fighters but against the lightning fast and tall Dawson, they both looked very ordinary. I expect Hopkins to look his age against Dawson on October 15th and lose badly.
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Dawson will easily beat Hopkins …. Guys, give Dawson credit for what he has done, he is the only fighter to beat Adamek and he was about to take Pascal out before the headbutt halted his progress. Sure he got off to a slow start against Pascal, but he took all that Pascal had to offer and was ready to take him out. Pascal took a fight with old man Hopkins instead of the rematch with Dawson and Hopkins exposed.
The people that comment on the Dawson v Hopkins bout saying that Hopkins will handle Dawson, does not have a clue about the sport of boxing! The writer was absolutely right, that is why Hopkins wanted nothing to do with Dawson that is why they have not fought until now! Frankly Dawson is the best boxing today in boxing minus all the hyped and over-rated fighters the media and promoters might want you to think are better! Hopkins is smart, he knows how good is Dawson and chose the right time to fight Chad, by beating Pascal he has further cemented his legacy. When Dawson beats Hopkins and does it quite easily, people will say oh well, Hopkins is just old, when the matter of fact is he would have beaten B.Hop. 5 or 6 yrs. ago. Folks, you will see come fight time why B. Hop. avoided this guy for so long. You will see how good Dawson is on this big stage.
well, well, well Pascal beat Dawson clearly, notthing close to ever have been KO by Dawson (never have been close to be KO by Froch or Hopkins either, so what make you thing he was about to be KO by Dawson…stupid) but he have been betten by Hopkins and Dawson will get beat by Hopkins as well, in fact the montréal boxing promoter GYM decided to target Dawson and try to opposent Pascal to him, because they where sure Dawson was ways to much overrated, well they where right…in his last fight Dawson coudn’t even finish a guy like Diacunu who is a totaly finish boxers since at least 3 years (ho and by the ways the promoter of Dawson totaly refuse him to fight Librado Andrade…he was the first choice to fight Dawson at the begining)
dan dan dan please! , listen watch b hop body work on this kid . bernard beats this guy up bad !!!!
Hmmmmmmm I wonder why? Maybe because both fighters originate from other Northeastern states, hence their fan bases are able to travel to the venue. Dawson has a deplorable following, but Hopkins fans from Philly would show.
hopkins should have gotten fighter of the decade. He took on everyone at there peaks coming off multiple wins vs. Top rated fighters. No one in the sport right now has taken on half the level of top rated fighters hopkins has. Brawling is not boxing. Its not what the sport is about.
some people still cant give Hopkins credit ha.
over 10k for this fight?? ..naw…these two arent exciting enough…dawson punches more than pascal,so we’ll see hopkins move more than usual….i doubt a lot of fans show up for this one,they are boring fighters who will hug all night
DAWSON IS KIND OF TIMID…..IF HE RUNS, HE MIGHT WIN…
Good move, L.A. is a great Boxing town.
Easily over 10K.