By Dan Ambrose: With the WBC light heavyweight title fight between champion Jean Pascal going up against Bernard Hopkins on HBO on May 21st, this means that the fight will be coming directly with Showtime’s Super Six tournament semi-final bout between WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch and Glen Johnson, which just happens to be taking place on the same night but on a different cable company.

This isn’t a good thing for boxing or the fans of the sport, because it means they’re going to have to decide on one of two choices, unless they have Tivo. With the previous Hopkins-Pascal I fight doing really good ratings on Showtime, you would have to assume that the Hopkins vs. Pascal II rematch will pull in more eyeballs than the Froch vs. Johnson fight.

Although that fight might be huge in the UK, it’s not going to likely be able to outdraw the Hopkins-Pascal rematch. It’s too bad this fight is taking place on the same night because both of them are great fights, and it will be a pity that both will be weakened because of these two fights running against each other.

Hopkins was dropped twice by Pascal in December, and then had to rally furiously just to pull off a 12 round draw. Hopkins complained bitterly about the outcome, like he sometimes does when he doesn’t get the “W”, and the WBC decided to give Hopkins the opportunity to try and get a win on the second time out. If Hopkins can’t do it this time, then he’ll be out of luck. I can’t see the WBC giving the 46-year-old Hopkins chance after chance without end. He’s going to have to glue his feet to the canvas and hope that Pascal doesn’t have him flying around the ring again like last time.