Hopkins wants disqualification win over Dawson
October 19th, 2011
By Jason Kim: 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins is no longer satisfied with trying to have his fight from last weekend against Chad Dawson changed from a 2nd round TKO loss to a no contest.
An x-ray was done on his shoulder and it reportedly showed that Hopkins suffered a dislocated left shoulder.
Hopkins told ESPN.com, “Dawson should be disqualified because that was no accident. I think it should be a DQ because it was intentional. He intended to hurt me, period. I’m asking for a disqualification because of the intent.”
Hopkins will keep his WBC title whether Dawson is disqualified or the fight is changed to a no contest. Trying to prove that Dawson was looking to hurt Hopkins when he bucked him off of his back is going to be hard to do, and I really can’t see the California Athletic Commission making that kind of ruling.
At best, they’ll overturn the result and make it a no contest. Hopkins can then move on and look for someone else to defend his title against. Dawson is already targeting Jean Pascal for a fight that would take place possibly in December. If Hopkins wants to fight Dawson again he’s going to have to make him a big offer, because he’s got other targets. Hopkins really needs to fight Dawson again because Hopkins looked the worse of the two fighters and he has a lot of proving to do.
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you Dawson lovers are idiots…even the guy doing the interview admitted that Hopkin’s left shoulder honestly did look injured…and he even compared one shoulder to the other. WHY DID DAWSON TACKLE HOPKINS???
Hopkins is a legend while Dawson is a ghetto kid dumber than a rock.
Bhop. . . say goodby to boxing. you’re no longer exciting to watch, not our money’s worth.
Time for B-Hop and Holyfield to open up a bar or a Pizza restaurant
The power of Golden Boy is about to be releashed in full force.. Gary Shaw has a squirt gun without any water.
bhop is a fraud like floyd … so called slick afro-american boxers … ur moneys worth always with mexicans and filipinos
old nig better hag it up he is rich shut up go home
It was less than 2 rounds, nothing proven either way. A rematch is logical but if it doesn’t happen, so what. This isn’t Hearns-Hagler material.
Dawson and the gutter Shaw do not have a hope of getting this thing in their favor. Golden Boy is powerful. Dumb Dawson could have ended his meaningless nothing career.
boxing should be on free tv like in the old days(15 years ago?)
only major fights should be on pay per view
pacquiao/mayweather is ppv worthy
mayweather/ortiz was not ppv worthy
pacquiao/marquez 3 is not ppv worthy
and no way should hopkins/dawson have ever been ppv
What ever anyone thinks of b hop the result was not the correct one. The only thing totally wrong about the fight was that is was ppv.
No decision was the only result
Bernard Hopkins is now a spent force. He is done and his prime is in the down trend.
did hopkins give up or not it dosent matter chad dawson if he was a real champ he woudent want to win he´s titel back like that he should give b hop a reematch and doet again becauce hopkins is a slow starter and every body knows that me personaly did not think he gave up he faked his injury chad should be dqed
hopkins fake gangster was scared of getting knocked out by the young boy im tired of him trying to win fights from a committee room he got dropped by pascal three times and they made dawson wait for his rematch because hopkins was ducking him so long he had to face dawson if he beat pascal which he did but nevertheles he did not want to face dawson and he knows it i hope if they rule in hopkins favor of no decision with mandatory rematch i bet if they tell him that he will not take his own title back or do some other shady sh.t like retire then come back to fight another bum like kelly pavlik or anyone of the straight forward fighters out there but he won’t be looking to fight dawson agian you can bet that
no guts
Don’t overreach, B-Hop. No contest is the right decision, but no victory for either fighter.
Why can’t both fighters be considered champions (for a small sanctioning fee)?
Hopkins quit……
Golden Boy and Oscar are California Boxing. Watch what happens on the decision. Gary Shaw is a pimp and powerless. Hop gets his belts back and the win.
The World Boxing Commissions should adopt new ruling for unprofessional and intentional act to penalize or disqualify such fighter. And most boxig fans I feel will agree.
Hopkins is a b i t c h. He should of stop acting and try to beat Dawson fighting, not b i t c h i n g.
I say let dawson fight pascal first while hopkins sholder heals good.Then they can have a rematch because it seems like not only is hopkins trying to get the decision overturned,but at the sametime not trying to get a rematch.if hopkins is not afraid of he shore is hell making it seem as if do not want any part of dawson again.
Has anybody noticed that bhop out spoken trainer niseem richardson seems to be very hush hush about the outcome of saturdays fight.I know,his religion do not allow him to lie.
therfore if someone was to asked him about the fight he will have to tell the truth, so before he have to do that he is
keeping a low key.what what do that tell you.ahae thinks hopkins lost also.if did not he would bo talking his a$$ off.
There should be a rematch but to be honest it did not seem like this fight generated much interest. For the most part we are still only talking about he controversy instead of the fight. Had it not been for the bad call we would have forgotten about it already.
@ BillyD. “Laid down” WTF! The man dislocated his shoulder, for Christ sakes! Give B-Hop some respect.
Pretty Boy Floyd says:
October 19, 2011 at 6:54 am
Bernard , you laid down to try to win. Move on…
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I can’t believe that I agree with Pretty Boy Floyd for the first time. I guess there is always a first time for everything. LOL
No Contest….rematch ASAP..or we all know nothing about what this outcome would have been…boxing fans need a rematch
Bhop is and always has been a manipulative biatch, his lies and BS from the past have finally caught up with him, the ref was right, he was the one who lunged at Dawson, all Dawson did was shove him off. If ole Popkins really wanted to fight he would have just got up and fought, period.
hopkins is done…he is a older version of mayweather..thats the same tactic he use when he fought roy jones in their rematch..i say hopkins is a actor..not a champion boxer but a award winning actor..he just tasted his own medicine..
Why didn’t Hopkins, the champ at 175, have a rematch clause?
Dawson reminds me of Khan in some ways, not because of their boxing; but for the marketing that surrounds every aspect of their careers…for talented boxers, they leave lots of ?????
You could clearly see Dawsons left hand confirming his intent. For once, I agree with Bernard Hopkins
Should be a no contest. The 2 rounds we saw show little about how the fight was going to pan out so it’s pointless saying Bhop old etc etc…we could have found that out but didn’t. This can’t be based on two rounds i.e after two rounds Morrison was beating Ray Mercer, Frank Bruno was beating Witherspoon and look how they turned out.
now we’ll see how powerful Golden Boy is versus duh Gary Shaw??
Finally Hopkins found a fighter who can square off his style of boxing, PUNCH AND GRAPPLE…I’m sure team Dawson studied that style…and WHAM!!! it shows.
Bernard , you laid down to try to win. Move on…
wow what a crock, dawsons’s right hand is in between them so it didn’t grab his left leg. his right hand is lose behind hopkins. it was just his strenght of standing up that tossed the whimp in to the ropes. if bhop would been called for pushing down on his apponates back more offtin this kind of cramp might not happen.
JOKE JOKE WHAT A JOKE
I;ve seen older fighters go out a lot worse than that, think it’s time to hang up the gloves in all fairness. Dawson looked like he had the edge but you never know with BHop he’s so hard to breakdown and a true living ledgend.
The ref lost the plot don;t think he saw it as the end of fight so didn;t call the foul but to give the ti tle to Dawson for a throw is why Boxing is sometime seen as a joke.
it shud b a no contest n an immediate rematch wen hopkins injury clears up
That not Dawson fault,or Hopkin fault.The ref was made crazy fault.
Hopkins was fakin,he thinks he is bigger than the sport itself.
Agree with ste.
Dawson was asking Bernard a straight right because he knew he would lunge into it. He could then bend at the waist and change Bernard’s horizontal energy into a vertical leap, helped with his left hand. Really, the ref’s only alibi is he could not look at the replay like we did.
Dawson stole the fans of a good fight.
I actually think dawson needs to fight hopkins again. Dawson still has a lot to prove and hopkins doesn’t. If dawson beat hopkins far and square then he could move on but he wants to fight jean pascal who hopkins beat easily.