Hopkins: Dawson is the only fight for me
January 4th, 2012
By Dan Ambrose: WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins is saying that a rematch against Chad Dawson is the only fight for him right now. Speaking on his twitter page, the soon to be 47-year-old Hopkins said “Me and Chad will fight very soon!! That’s the only fight for me!”
Although the fight ended early after Hopkins fell down and injured shoulder in the 2nd, the fact remains that he didn’t look good. Dawson looked to be the stronger, faster and things were shaping up to a very grueling fight for Hopkins. This wasn’t going to be the nice slow fight he had against Jean Pascal months earlier. Dawson was going to make Hopkins work hard and take a lot of shots. I don’t think things were going to go well for Hopkins in this fight.
It would be surprising if Hopkins takes the Dawson fight because the Cleverly bout is a potential big payday for Hopkins if he’s willing to fly to Wales to make it. I don’t know how much money the Shumenov fight will make for Hopkins. He likely wants that fight in order to just capture Shumenov’s title because then Hopkins could have three of the four light heavyweight titles in his possession and he could retire at that point with a lot of fan respect.
Hopkins isn’t interested in facing IBF champion Tavoris Cloud, so that’s the one belt in theory that Hopkins won’t bother trying to capture before he retires. None of this will really matter if Hopkins is forced to fight Dawson because it could all end right there for B-Hop. I’m not sure if Cleverly’s promoter will be as eager to have Cleverly fight Hopkins with him coming off of a loss to Dawson. That might not excite British fans the same way as a fight between Cleverly and Hopkins now with Hopkins still in possession of the WBC belt.
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altho hopkins smothers and ties up after a one two combo hes gonna be difficult even 4 dawson too beat.im a great fan of what hopkins has achieved and at times his negative tactics have spoiled.but fact remains no1 has stuck too a plan to decisively beat him since roy jones 1.hes definite hall of fame and at 47 soon he kan make whatever decision he wishes.but he needs too take dawson and let his hands go more one last time.i think he kan win
Hopkins is a wannabe Negro, Id like to see him clean Arse and Toilets like I do. Man wouldnt know which end is up. And not brag about it.
Hopkins is a wannabe Negro, Id like to see him clean Arse and Toilets like I do. Man wouldnt know which end is up.
“don’t go fight Dawson in canada Bhop, otherwise you’ll lose seven days a week, 365 days a year, unless you knock him out. ”
scott g.
have the fight in the hood
Hopkins can’t take dawson’s shots.
Bring on the rematch, please!
have the fight at the TV studio and save on expenses. old man Hop and sad chad. a waste
we need this rematch…dont wana see bhop fight anyone else…
B-Hop, stfu.. No one wants to see you take another dive. All you want is a payday again. fu
well done b-hop for us boxing fans we need to see that fight
who would buy the seats to fill a small venue to watch a 50 year bitter old man fight a dumb ghetto dredger?
i did not see dawson land anything on Bhop’s in the 2 rounds they fought hopkins on the other hand landed at will on dawson’s head and face causing dawson to pick up Bhop’s and throw him on his shoulder because he knew he couldent win a boxing match with Bhop’s so he fouled out nuff said
@ Brit fan..
You are one of the few smart thinking people on this website.
Thanks for that.
i don’t know how people come to stupid conclusions, just after 1 round
I love how people say ‘hopkins didn’t look good against dawson’….the fight was scheduled for 12. Anyone that has followed hopkins knows he is a notoriously slow starter, who knows what would have played out had the fight continued.
Dan U think OLD Hopkins got a chance with them? IDK about that