Hopkins-Dawson on PPV for $54.95 on Saturday

By Boxing News - 10/12/2011 - Comments

Image: Hopkins-Dawson on PPV for $54.95 on SaturdayBy Allen Fox: PHOTO CREDIT: Gene Blevins – Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions – If you have some extra spending cash on hand for Saturday night you might want to tune into the pay per view card headed by WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson on HBO PPV for $54.95. It’s a lot of money to pay to see two fighters that aren’t huge draws, but the undercard is a very good one.

Here are the fights that are on the card:

Antonio DeMarco vs. Jorge Linares for the vacant WBC lightweight title
Kendall Holt vs. Danny Garcia – WBC and IBF light welterweight eliminators for #2-spot
Paulie Malignaggi vs. Orlando Lora at welterweight
Luis Collazo vs. Freddy Hernandez
Nick Casal vs. Michael Anderson
Donyil Livingston vs. Kurtiss Colvin
Dewey Bozella vs. Larry Hopkins

It’s unclear how many of those fights will actually make it on the PPV broadcast, but it would make sense if these fights all made it: Malignaggi-Lora, Collazo-Hernandez, Holt-Garcia, and DeMarco-Linares.

As for the main event, it’s going to be an interesting one because it’s going to tell you how much the 46-year-old Hopkins has left in the tank and how good Dawson is. Hopkins has excelled beyond everyone’s expectations in the last few years, but then again he’s done it against guys that were perfect for him to look good against. Hopkins hasn’t faced a fighter with a high work rate since he was beaten by Joe Calzaghe in 2008. Hopkins does well against fighter that fight at a slow, leisurely pace. Dawson wants to throw a lot of punches in this fight to take advantage of Hopkins’ stamina problems but it’s going to be interesting to see if Dawson can. At the same time, this is a fight where boxing fans get to see whether Dawson really has the talent to cut it against the very best in the division. We already saw him miserably fail in his loss to Jean Pascal last year. Dawson has a couple of excuses for that defeat, saying he took the fight with only four weeks training and he made a mistake of trying to score a knockout instead of just looking to win. On Saturday night there can’t be any excuses for Dawson. He’s had what he calls a great camp with his new trainer John Scully and says he’s feeling better than he’s felt in years.



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