By Jason Kim: 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins wants his 2nd round TKO loss to Chad Dawson to be changed to a no contest and he may very well get his wish once the fight is reviewed by the World Boxing Council and the California Athletic Commission. The whole picture looked bad. You’ve got an old fighter in his 40s, falling down and hurting himself. It just made Hopkins look old and feeble.

However, a rematch between Hopkins and Dawson is probably a really bad idea because there are a lot of angry fans that payed big money to watch this fight on pay per view, and they’re not happy with the way the fight ended with Hopkins falling down and hurting his left shoulder in the 2nd round. Never mind the fact that Hopkins really did injure his shoulder, it still angered a lot of boxing fans and it would be difficult to get these same fans to want to see a rematch if they had to pay to see it.

As of now, neither Dawson or Hopkins’ promoters want to put together a rematch between the two fighters. Hopefully, it stays this way because if they do decide to stage a rematch then they’re going to need to make this a non-PPV fight because I don’t think it’ll do well at all with the fans.

Before the injury occurred, Hopkins looked lost against a motivated Dawson, and was having problems landing his shots. Hopkins rarely threw punches at all, and when he did he often ended up in a clinch. It was the same kind of Hopkins’ tactics we’ve seen from him in the past, but it wasn’t proving to be effective. Max Kellerman of HBO gave Hopkins the 1st round and seemed to be impressed with his performance.

I didn’t see it the same way. I thought Hopkins lost the 1st round and looked horrible in the 2nd as well. There was nothing impressive in Hopkins’ performance and when he fell down after climbing over the back of Dawson in the 2nd, I saw it as a flop by Hopkins. He had done a lot of flopping in the past in fights against Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jr., so I wasn’t sure if this was more of the same or if it was a legitimate in injury. That’s the problem. When you get a fighter that hits the deck in what looks to be efforts to get a rest break or points taken away from his opponents, you have a hard time knowing when they’re really hurt.