Bernard Hopkins: This Might Be My Last Fight on Saturday
According to WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2, 32KOs), Saturday's rematch with Chad Dawson (30-1, 17KOs) is possibly his last fight as a professional.
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Ismayl Sillakh is Expecting Dawson To Defeat Hopkins
Undefeated light heavyweight contender Ismayl Sillakh (17-0, 14KOs) believes Chad Dawson will defeat Bernard Hopkins in Saturday's rematch in Atlantic City. Sillakh returns on Friday night against fellow unbeaten Russian boxer Denis Grachev (11-0-1, 7KOs). Sillakh and Grachev actually sparred with each other in the past.
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Chad Dawson: The KO Will Present Itself in the 5th or 6th!
Former light heavyweight champion "Bad" Chad Dawson made an appearance on a recent edition of BoxingScene's official audio show, The Boxing Lab. The 29-year-old told us that he is anxious to get back in the ring with Bernard Hopkins and hopes that Hopkins will fight in a fan friendly manner.
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Dawson: Hopkins Has No Chance, He's Going To Lose Bad!
Chad Dawson and Bernard Hopkins won’t occupy the same room again until a weigh-in Friday afternoon at Caesars in Atlantic City that’s open to the public. There won’t be an official press conference this week, though customary for fights at this level, because, according to Dawson and his handlers, Hopkins doesn’t want one. Nevertheless, Dawson (30-1, 17 KOs, 2 NC) has offered a couple messages for the oldest champion in boxing history.
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Chad Dawson's Trainer Discusses The Hopkins Rematch
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.
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Dawson: Hopkins Was Trying To Break My Neck, My Back
Chad Dawson has watched the end of his fight against Bernard Hopkins more times than he can count. Even in hindsight, Dawson doesn’t think he had any alternative other than to shove Hopkins off his back. “It was to the point where people were saying I pulled an M M A move, I slammed him,” Dawson said. “I had to watch it so many times because I’m like, ‘Did I really slam him?’ I know I didn’t slam him, but I looked to see if it looked like I slammed him. But I didn’t slam him. All I did was move back and just slide out from the headlock he had me in.”
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Dawson Talks Hopkins: I Will Pick Up Where I Left Off
Chad Dawson knows Bernard Hopkins’ version of what occurred Oct. 15 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. He just doesn’t believe it. Not a word of it. “I know what happened that night,” Dawson said while promoting the April 28th rematch at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. “I looked into Bernard’s eyes that night and Bernard did not want to be in the ring that night. He may tell you otherwise and Richard Schaefer may say otherwise, but I’m telling you, Bernard didn’t want to be in the ring that night
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Dawson: I Need To Take Old Hopkins Out, He Has To Go!
Chad Dawson doesn’t mince words when it comes to Bernard Hopkins. Dawson respects what Hopkins has accomplished, but he is sick of talking about boxing’s oldest champion. He is just as sick of seeing the controversial legend from Philadelphia, so Dawson views his light heavyweight championship rematch against Hopkins on April 28 in Atlantic City as more than just a second chance to prove he is the better fighter.
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Pro Debut Loss Taught Bernard Hopkins Self-Discipline
Very little is known about Bernard Hopkins’ loss to Clinton Mitchell, other than what is provided by its line result, a majority loss for the Philadelphia boxer. We know that it served as the pro debut for both fighters nearly 24 years ago in Atlantic City. We know that both fighters disappeared soon after. Mitchell wouldn’t fight again for another seven years, returning shortly after the start of Hopkins’ middleweight title reign way back in 1995.
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Chad Dawson Still Believes "Hopkins Wanted To Quit!"
We welcomed former light heavyweight Champion Chad Dawson to the latest Edition of The Boxing Lab, BoxingScene.com's official audio show. On April 28th in Atlantic City Dawson and Bernard Hopkins will square off in a rematch of their October fight that ended in a no-contest after Hopkins said that he couldn't continue after injuring his shoulder. Hopkins leaned on Dawson and Dawson retaliated by pushing Hopkins off of him causing him to hit the ground. At the time, Dawson accused Hopkins of faking the injury and said that he quit. 6 months have since passed and Dawson's feelings still haven't changed.
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