Wright: Hopkins quit against Dawson

By Boxing News - 10/17/2011 - Comments

Image: Wright: Hopkins quit against DawsonBy Dan Ambrose: There’s been a lot of fallout from Saturday’s fight between WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson and a lot of boxing fans still think Hopkins opted to quit in the 2nd round after he slid off the back of Dawson. Winky Wright, who helped train Dawson, thinks Hopkins quit.

Speaking with examiner.com, Wright said “Everybody saw what happened. Chad didn’t do anything to get disqualified. He leaned and pushed him off with his shoulder. He didn’t pick Bernard up, he didn’t slam Bernard, he didn’t push him. Bernard fell and he quit.”

There was a press release sent out on Saturday night showing that Hopkins had visited the California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles and received an x-ray from Dr. Sam Thurber, stating that Hopkins was diagnosed with a separation of the acromioclavicular joint in his left shoulder.

This bit of news has been accepted by some boxing fans while others see it as a fake and don’t believe it for a second.

Some boxing fans think Hopkins got caught up in one of his flops and it turned bad when he overplayed it too long while on the canvas. Whatever the case, Hopkins hit the deck and he lost the fight by a 2nd round TKO. Dawson is the champion and he’s shinning right now and planning his first title defense against Jean Pascal.

The WBC or the California Athletic Commission could overturn the results and give Hopkins his title back, but Dawson still won the event in the eyes of a lot of boxing fans because he was the standing and Hopkins was the one on the canvas holding his shoulder.



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