WBC/IBO light heavyweight world champion Jean Pascal (26-1-1, 16 KOs) fought Bernard Hopkins (51-5-1, 32 KOs) to a twelve round majority draw on Saturday night at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City, Canada. The scores were 114-112 Hopkins and 113-113, 114-114 for the majority draw.
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boxingfan4lifeMon Dec 20, 2010, 12:10 PM UTC
i saw this fight i dont see it as draw. yes pascal was the leading man in the first 5 rounds but b hop took over after that. and the two knockdowns were garbage as well. both knockdowns occurred from hits to the back of the head. they shouldnt have been counted. i would understand if pascal hit b hop with flush legal punches to knock him down but he didnt. point is pascal got away with murder on that draw and if he is a true champion he should not be satisfied with the results and give hopkins a rematch to set the record straight. lets wait and see what happens.
zaklingMon Dec 20, 2010, 12:06 AM UTC
Just not right!
Look at those numbers! Two knockdowns or not, the numbers dont lie. B-hop clearly wooped that ***.
Carpe_DiemSun Dec 19, 2010, 9:24 PM UTC
Pascal is boxing's best runner right now.
elliot0214Sun Dec 19, 2010, 5:58 PM UTC
Also, whats up with Pascal calling B-Hop a dirty fighter? He was the one landing punches behind the head. B-Hop took him to school, plain and simple.
PANDASun Dec 19, 2010, 5:58 PM UTC
Hopkins was the effective aggressor for the entire fight - Pascal was running away from Hopkins for most of the fight.
Ring Generalship is also supposed to be counted in the scoring - and if anyone thinks that Bernard Hopkins didn't dictate the action and how the fight went - then you don't know boxing at all.
The fact that Hopkins also landed basically TWICE as many total punches just drives home the point of just how CLEARLY Hopkins deserved to be the Champ last night.
Pascal not only knew he lost - so did his corner - and it was written all over their faces after the fight. Pascal should be ashamed of his performance, or rather, lack there of - If Pascal had any honor, he would send Hopkins those belts because he knows Hopkins earned them...
dont agree with u on all points
for the first 5 rounds pascal was pressing the action and landing shots while bhop was mostly playing defense trying to figure pascal out. bhop dictated the action from the second half of round 5 up till the 12th round. from round 5 on panda will agree bhop was the effective agressor
pascal didnt run away from hopkins he was trying to offset hopkins timing him because he was so effective doing it...he went side to side instead of ciricling the ring like for example de la hoya did against trinidad
both didnt land much to my eye and punchstats displayed that...a lot of shots bhop landed werent flush while the little shots pascal landed were flush...a big emphasis on "little shots" here
panda does agree with the clear distress in pascal's corner after the fight, rightfully so because bhop almost won 8 rounds in a row (to my scoring 7 but there were a lot of close rounds)