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By Cliff Rold - Take one certain, 45-year old future Hall of Famer and add a talented but flawed new champion making his first defense as the universally recognized king. It’s the recipe this weekend in Quebec as Bernard Hopkins (51-5, 32 KO) challenges Jean Pascal (26-1, 16 KO) for the WBC belt Pascal has held since June 2009 and the then-vacant lineal and Ring Magazine honors he earned by defeating Chad Dawson in August of this year.
Hopkins didn’t seem to want a thing to do with Dawson. He jumped at the chance to face the 28-year old Pascal.
In the immortal words of Max Schmeling, does Hopkins “see something?”
We’ll all see this weekend. There is precedence. If Hopkins pulls it off, he wouldn’t be the first 45-year old to travel this road. The recipe in the ring this weekend isn’t much different from what would end up one of the most surprising fistic feel-good stories of the 1990s.
On November 5, 1994, Michael Moorer entered the ring for his first defense of the Heavyweight crown he won from Evander Holyfield. Moorer entered the Holyfield contest an underdog. When questions of heart (and/or shoulder) problems emerged for Holyfield after Moorer came off the floor for the upset decision his full legitimacy, as champion, remained to be determined for much of the public. [Click Here To Read More]
Hopkins didn’t seem to want a thing to do with Dawson. He jumped at the chance to face the 28-year old Pascal.
In the immortal words of Max Schmeling, does Hopkins “see something?”
We’ll all see this weekend. There is precedence. If Hopkins pulls it off, he wouldn’t be the first 45-year old to travel this road. The recipe in the ring this weekend isn’t much different from what would end up one of the most surprising fistic feel-good stories of the 1990s.
On November 5, 1994, Michael Moorer entered the ring for his first defense of the Heavyweight crown he won from Evander Holyfield. Moorer entered the Holyfield contest an underdog. When questions of heart (and/or shoulder) problems emerged for Holyfield after Moorer came off the floor for the upset decision his full legitimacy, as champion, remained to be determined for much of the public. [Click Here To Read More]
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