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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - All that stuff you thought you knew last fall, you still know.
Or maybe you don’t.
The reality is, whether you went into October’s fight at Staples Center believing Chad Dawson would be an easy winner – or had no business in the ring with a guy like Bernard Hopkins – nothing happened over five-or-so minutes to give reason to believe otherwise.
Which is why their rematch Saturday night along the Jersey seashore remains so breathlessly compelling to some, and so impossibly irrelevant to others.
If you liked it going in, go ahead and get ready.
If you didn’t, go ahead and get movie tickets.
For his sake, it’s safe to say former world title challenger John Scully is among the former.
Come the weekend in Atlantic City, he’ll again be manning challenger Dawson’s corner as they again face Hopkins in a bid to regain the WBC 175-pound title belt the long-time Connecticut resident won and defended three times over a 14-month period in 2007-08.
And amid the swirl of opinions over whether Hopkins could have actually continued following his Dawson-induced tumble to the canvas in their first encounter in California, count Scully in as having a provocative view of his own. [Click Here To Read More]
Or maybe you don’t.
The reality is, whether you went into October’s fight at Staples Center believing Chad Dawson would be an easy winner – or had no business in the ring with a guy like Bernard Hopkins – nothing happened over five-or-so minutes to give reason to believe otherwise.
Which is why their rematch Saturday night along the Jersey seashore remains so breathlessly compelling to some, and so impossibly irrelevant to others.
If you liked it going in, go ahead and get ready.
If you didn’t, go ahead and get movie tickets.
For his sake, it’s safe to say former world title challenger John Scully is among the former.
Come the weekend in Atlantic City, he’ll again be manning challenger Dawson’s corner as they again face Hopkins in a bid to regain the WBC 175-pound title belt the long-time Connecticut resident won and defended three times over a 14-month period in 2007-08.
And amid the swirl of opinions over whether Hopkins could have actually continued following his Dawson-induced tumble to the canvas in their first encounter in California, count Scully in as having a provocative view of his own. [Click Here To Read More]
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