
Two light heavyweight champions had an unexpected meeting. IBF champion Bernard Hopkins, and WBC champion Adonis Stevenson, went face to face at the Malignaggi-Broner weigh-in at the Brooklyn Borough Hall Outdoor Plaza in Brooklyn, New York. Chad Dawson won the WBC title from Hopkins in 2012 with a twelve round decision. Earlier this month, Stevenson changed the landscape of the light heavyweight division when he knocked out Dawson in the first round to capture the WBC belt.