By Jason Kim: According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, there’s a purse bid scheduled this Friday for a rematch between WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson. Hopkins, 47, was ordered by the World Boxing Council to grant Dawson, 29, a rematch.

However, it’s not known as of now whether Hopkins will take the rematch, as he’s not seemed excited about it due to the low pay per view numbers their previous fight generated last October.

It was a bad idea in the first place to make a PPV bout and the fight never did generate a lot of excitement in the run up to it. The fight itself was a complete disaster with few punches thrown and ended with Hopkins being lifted up and dropped on the canvas by the bigger Dawson in the 2nd round.

Hopkins hurt his left shoulder upon landing on the canvas and the right had to be halted at that point. The referee scored it a 2nd round TKO for Dawson, but that was overturned upon appeal by Hopkins’ promotional company Golden Boy.

The bout result was later overturned by both the California State Athletic Commission and the World Boxing Council. Never the less, Hopkins is going to have to make a choice whether to defend the title against Dawson, not defend it and give him a step aside fee, vacate the title or not nothing and let the WBC strip him of the title.

Hopkins wants a high profile big money against IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute in 2012 or possibly a unification bout against WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly. The Bute-Hopkins fight would be the most appealing of the two and it’s a very real possibility if Bute doesn’t face former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch next.