Posts tagged Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins

HOPKINS-PASCAL: AGE GAP ERASED

By Reni M. Valenzuela

Bernard Hopkins is forty six years old and nobody seems to howl.

Because of his advanced age and “fading” career as an ex- top boxer and a former super bantamweight and super featherweight champion, a lot of people “cried wolf” out of their sincere concern for his safety and welfare when Erik “El Terrible” Morales at thirty five dared to fight the fresh hard-punching Marcos Maidana last April 9.

The same is the drama with the thirty nine year-old Shane Mosley who was unfairly lampooned for his “gut” to challenge this generation’s best boxer in Manny Pacquiao. The difference, however, is that Morales proved well the critics wrong while Mosley had only himself and his trainer to prove wrong although boxing had “bigwig pockets” to blame but Mosley in Top Rank’s highly “successful top grosser show”.

Things went right with El Terrible during the fight despite losing in the judges’ scorecards in the same vein that Sugar Shane proved everyone right on fight night except his predictions and bluffing prior to the May 7th farce against Pacman.

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JEAN PASCAL MEDIA CONFERENCE CALL TRANSCRIPT

To download an MP3 of this call in its entirety, please click HERE.

Yvon Michel

Thank you, everybody, for joining on for this conference call.  First, I would like to thank all our partners for this event HBO, Golden Boy Promotions, Gary Shaw Promotions, and InterBox for helping us to put on a very exceptional show here in Montreal.  We are ten days from the fight.  Next week is fight week, and everyday there will be activities.  It’s going to be a boxing week in Montreal.  We will have public trainings, press conferences, the weigh-in, and then the event.

It is going to be a great show. We have nine fights that are going to be shown, especially the two great fights starting with Chad Dawson vs. Adrian Diaconu. Both are former WBC Light Heavyweight champions.  They will try to qualify themselves to fight for the title again.  Then there is the great rematch of the fight between Pascal and Hopkins which took place on December 18 of last year.  So, Jean Pascal will be trying again to retain his title against Bernard Hopkins, who will try to make history once again by trying to be the oldest boxer in history to ever win a world championship title.

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THE ROAD TO JUSTICE IS PAVED: WBC ORDERS PASCAL-HOPKINS REMATCH

LOS ANGELES - Following the outcry over the controversial December 18 draw between Jean Pascal and Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins on in Quebec City, Canada, the WBC Board of Governors has voted in favor of ordering an immediate rematch between the two for the WBC Light Heavyweight World Championship.

“I’d like to thank Mr. Jose Sulaiman and the WBC Board of Governors for ordering an immediate rematch between Pascal and I,” said Hopkins.  “This is a great thing for boxing and hopefully fans will get to see another great fight with Pascal and I.  I’m looking forward to starting off the New Year by making history as the oldest athlete to win a major championship in ANY sport.”

Hopkins impressively battled Pascal, the WBC and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion, over 12 rounds before a highly disputed draw verdict was rendered.  The decision caused an uproar throughout the boxing community, with most believing Hopkins won the fight.

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