Hopkins Dropped In Ring Lt. Heavyweight Rating

[Heru]

Dawson-Pascal will no doubt be for the Ring title. He'll have 5 wins over the top 5 at 175, Dawson deserves for it to be on the line.

1. Chad Dawson

2. Glen Johnson

3. Jean Pascal

4. Bernard Hopkins

5. Antonio Tarver

6. Tavoris Cloud

7. Vyacheslav Uzelkov

8. Adrian Diaconu

9. Karo Murat

10. Nathan Cleverly

http://www.ringtv.com/ratings/light_heavyweight/

[savorduhflavor]

Great news. Dawson will rightfully be crowned as the an at LHW.

[Heru]

Great news. Dawson will rightfully be crowned as the an at LHW.

No doubt about it. If Dawson didn't want to fight Hopkins, there would be a good argument against it, but the situation is vice versa. A good move from the Ring after having a poor P4P list.

[savorduhflavor]

No doubt about it. If Dawson didn't want to fight Hopkins, there would be a good argument against it, but the situation is vice versa. A good move from the Ring after having a poor P4P list.

And silencing any notion that they are heavily biased towards GBP fighters...

[-Spinal-]

Hopkins will never fight Dawson. Hopkins should retire because Haye doesn't want to fight an old man coming up in weight and Hopkins doesn't want to fight any top 10 LHWs.

[SkillspayBills]

Come on Bhop let Dawson end your career. It's passing the torch.

[Heeb]

I wouldn't have a problem if B-Hop kept fighting weak fighters. The man is 45 and he doesn't have any belts, so it's not like he's hurting boxing by not fighting tough fighters. I don't care if he retires or not. But if he doesn't please stay off PPV.

[Heru]

Come on Bhop let Dawson end your career. It's passing the torch.

Yeah, people underestimate passing of the torch fights. They really up a fighters' popularity.

[Mr. Philadel]

cool.....B.Hop isn't fighting for rankings or P4P status anyway.....LEGACY and checks is what a 45 yr old thats in the boxing game should be doing anyway!!......Chad BEEN the man at 175 in my eyes so I never got the whole B.Hop vs Chad thing anyway!!......with that said, since Haye already has said he has no interest in fighting his idol B.Hop.....I see B.Hop giving the public the fight they demand of him just to make up for that disaster on Saturday night......he's that type of dude and don't be suprised when that opponent's name is Bad Chad.......don't go flippin' the script and start B.Hop gonna get his ass whooped ****.....give the old man his props for fighting this young lion......then bow down AFTER he teaches the young lion some new oldschool ****.....I love B.Hop's chances against Dawson and from the way cats yappin.....they love Chad's chances!!.....not if but WHEN the fight gets made we can balance off some bets and don't be bitching eith the odds either .......I have a habbit of correctly predicting B.Hop's future opponents......I told yall when Haye and Wlad was signed that B.Hop wanted Haye to win so he could fight Haye.....cats laughed......I said he and Roy was gonna do the rematch even though he said he was not interested in Roy.....cats laughed!!.....I'm tellin yall, B.Hop will fight Chad......trust me!!

[Heru]

cool.....B.Hop isn't fighting for rankings or P4P status anyway.....LEGACY and checks is what a 45 yr old thats in the boxing game should be doing anyway!!......Chad BEEN the man at 175 in my eyes so I never got the whole B.Hop vs Chad thing anyway!!......with that said, since Haye already has said he has no interest in fighting his idol B.Hop.....I see B.Hop giving the public the fight they demand of him just to make up for that disaster on Saturday night......he's that type of dude and don't be suprised when that opponent's name is Bad Chad.......don't go flippin' the script and start B.Hop gonna get his ass whooped ****.....give the old man his props for fighting this young lion......then bow down AFTER he teaches the young lion some new oldschool ****.....I love B.Hop's chances against Dawson and from the way cats yappin.....they love Chad's chances!!.....not if but WHEN the fight gets made we can balance off some bets and don't be bitching eith the odds either .......I have a habbit of correctly predicting B.Hop's future opponents......I told yall when Haye and Wlad was signed that B.Hop wanted Haye to win so he could fight Haye.....cats laughed......I said he and Roy was gonna do the rematch even though he said he was not interested in Roy.....cats laughed!!.....I'm tellin yall, B.Hop will fight Chad......trust me!!

B-Hop won't get blown out, but as of right now, I see Dawson winning pretty clearly. I won't count Bernard out though.

Hopkins' style is poison for southpaws just like the Marquez brothers, but Chad is too quick, active, and has too much skill for this version of Hopkins.