By Lem Satterfield

According to Yvon Michel, promoter for WBC/IBO light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal, the WBC's President Jose Sulaiman will not stand in the way of Pascal's contractual obligation to rematch Chad Dawson, before taking a rematch with Bernard Hopkins. Michel wanted to clear up the situation after Hopkins' promoter, Golden Boy Promotions' CEO Richard Schaefer, said Sulaiman would order an immediate rematch.

Pascal and Hopkins fought to a controversial twelve round majority draw on Saturday night at the Pepsi Colesium in Quebec City, Canada. American judge Steve Morrow had it for Hopkins, 114-112, but Canadian official Jean Claude Paquette and Belgian official Daniel Van de Wiele scored it even, respectively, at 113-113, and, 114-114.

"Look, we are definitely going to give a rematch to Bernard Hopkins. It would be our choice that it would be the first choice to fight Hopkins. But if we have to fight Dawson, then, it's Hopkins right after," Michel said.

"I would say that the Dawson fight would definitely be in Canada because Chad Dawson has no drawing power in the United States. For the other fight, with Hopkins, Jean said that he is willing to go anywhere to fight him. It's not a problem as long as the the revenue is close to or superior to what we can have here."

Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here.