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By Jake Donovan - At what point is an upset prediction still considered an upset?
There are so many people in the industry predicting Bernard Hopkins to once again defy the odds (and Father Time) this weekend, that you have to wonder if perhaps the oddsmakers are the ones who have it wrong.
Then again, the voting public hasn’t quite yet nailed it when it comes to handicapping Jean Pascal.
It’s the quest for public approval that prompted the Haitian-born Canadian-raised light heavyweight king to gun for a big name for the first defense of his lineal championship.
“I want to become a legend myself one day,” Pascal (26-1, 16KO) states in defending his choice of the near-46 year old former middleweight king as his opponent for this weekend’s headliner at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City, Canada.
Showtime will air the light heavyweight championship bout (Saturday, 10PM ET/PT), though much of the promotion seems to be geared around a Hopkins homecoming of sorts. It was on their airwaves in which his middleweight reign began, knocking out Segundo Mercado in the seventh round of their April 1995 rematch to win a belt that he would defend a divisional record 20 times.
While the upside of Pascal clearing out the last of the old timers that have long clogged up space atop the division has been acknowledged by the network brass, much attention has been paid to the possibility of Hopkins becoming the oldest champion in boxing history. [Click Here To Read More]
There are so many people in the industry predicting Bernard Hopkins to once again defy the odds (and Father Time) this weekend, that you have to wonder if perhaps the oddsmakers are the ones who have it wrong.
Then again, the voting public hasn’t quite yet nailed it when it comes to handicapping Jean Pascal.
It’s the quest for public approval that prompted the Haitian-born Canadian-raised light heavyweight king to gun for a big name for the first defense of his lineal championship.
“I want to become a legend myself one day,” Pascal (26-1, 16KO) states in defending his choice of the near-46 year old former middleweight king as his opponent for this weekend’s headliner at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City, Canada.
Showtime will air the light heavyweight championship bout (Saturday, 10PM ET/PT), though much of the promotion seems to be geared around a Hopkins homecoming of sorts. It was on their airwaves in which his middleweight reign began, knocking out Segundo Mercado in the seventh round of their April 1995 rematch to win a belt that he would defend a divisional record 20 times.
While the upside of Pascal clearing out the last of the old timers that have long clogged up space atop the division has been acknowledged by the network brass, much attention has been paid to the possibility of Hopkins becoming the oldest champion in boxing history. [Click Here To Read More]
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