
Bernard Hopkins, Danny Garcia Open Workout Quotes
“I chose to continue to fight and defend what I worked so hard to get.So why not get all of the benefits of what I’ve been doing for 20-something years and then walk away when it’s time?

“I chose to continue to fight and defend what I worked so hard to get.So why not get all of the benefits of what I’ve been doing for 20-something years and then walk away when it’s time?

Gary Shaw The open workout was canceled by me because HBO did not communicate with us and let us know that Sergio Martinez was also holding an open workout yesterday in New York City. I felt that it was wrong for us to go against another fighter and Lou DiBella-who's a friend of mine-and to have two open workouts on the same day. So just for clarification sake, that was done by myself. Is John Scully on this call?

NEW YORK — On the same day Chad Dawson disputed it on a conference call, former trainer Emanuel Steward said again that Dawson told him he wanted to train for his Oct. 15 fight against Bernard Hopkins in Pennsylvania’s Poconos because Dawson wanted to be closer to his family.

Chad Dawson has special plans to dethrone Bernard Hopkins, the oldest world champion in boxing history.

Chad Dawson admitted that his career had stagnated and that he had become a “bored” fighter before hooking up with current trainer John Scully, he said during a conference call with the media on Wednesday. Dawson has often been criticized for not seizing the moment in fights and throwing enough punches, a tendency he seemed to imply was a result of his prior training.

According to light heavyweight Chad Dawson, the training location was not a deciding factor in leaving trainer Emanuel Steward after one fight of working together earlier this year. Steward told BoxingScene.com that Dawson refused to train at Steward's Kronk Gym in Detroit, and wanted to train closer to home in Connecticut. Dawson faces WBC champion Bernard Hopkins on October 15th at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

BoxingScene.com spoke with trainer Emanuel Steward to get his thoughts on the upcoming light heavyweight bout between WBC champion Bernard Hopkins and mandatory challenger Chad Dawson, taking place on October 15th at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

Nathan Cleverly says the prospect of facing Bernard Hopkins at the Millennium Stadium will be the perfect incentive for him to beat Tony Bellew. Promoter Frank Warren has said the winner of the WBO world-title bout could face Hopkins or Chad Dawson. And Welshman Cleverly says facing Hopkins would be a dream if he beats Bellew in Liverpool on the 15th of October.

For the past few years, the names ‘Floyd Mayweather’ and ‘Manny Pacquiao’ have dominated much of the sport’s headlines, with the ultimate hope that the two men will be able to one day meet in the ring. At the moment Las Vegas is buzzing with Mayweather’s forthcoming bout with WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz this Saturday night and two months later Pacquiao will take center stage when he meets Juan Manuel Marquez for a third time inside of the MGM Grand.

A pair of unbeaten middleweight prospects will clash in Los Angeles on October 15 when Donyil Livingston fights Kurtiss Colvin in a six-rounder on the Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson undercard.