Comments Thread For: Hopkins-Pascal Rematch: Neutral Officials Down The Line

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

GYM's Yvon Michel, who promotes WBC/IBO light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal, told BoxingScene.com that both he and Golden Boy Promotions, who handle Bernard Hopkins, agreed on neutral officials for the rematch between their boxers on May 21. No officials will be used from the United States or Canada. The fight is a rematch of their controversial draw which took place last December. Golden Boy won the recent purse bid, but two companies agreed to make decisions with a united front.

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[Mr. Philadel]

cool....Pascal ALREADY knows he's not B.Hop's level...not on his shelf....so that means he'll become just ANOTHER notch on B.Hop's belt.....May 21st is the date...thats 5-21....which can be turned into 215....which is the area code for Philly lol...let me stop

[egreezy]

Neutral officials have still robbed fighters in the past, I wonder why

[goblin213]

Neutral officials doesn't necessarily mean that are smart officials.

[southpaw_07]

if Hopkins insist on staging the fight in the US, I say good luck to get 20,000 in attendance as the case would be in Canada, as a matter of fact, he won't be able to attract 5,000 in Philly

[REMOVED SHARK 97]

Hopkins went down from 2 weak attacks.

First he tried to convince the ref into thinking he was hit behind the head, but it worked against him then and later he lost another point, which cost him a win.

[Sweet Jesus]

if Hopkins insist on staging the fight in the US, I say good luck to get 20,000 in attendance as the case would be in Canada, as a matter of fact, he won't be able to attract 5,000 in Philly

20 years from now when we are talking about Hopkins being the oldest world champ of all time, I'm sure the only thing everybody will remember is how many people attended the fight.

[deuce_drop]

wasn't it the belgium judge that had it all wrong to begin with????? with his 10th round joke of a scoring and also scoring an even round??? i don't remember exactly, but i remember something to that nature.....??

[bloodyknuckles]

if the fight is in the US im gonna take everyone i know to see it. Have a little respect 4 b-hop hes definitely one of all time best. Plus u got a chance to see history being made.

[vxrandall]

wasn't it the belgium judge that had it all wrong to begin with????? with his 10th round joke of a scoring and also scoring an even round??? i don't remember exactly, but i remember something to that nature.....??

yes and belgium is practically an annexe of france, canada's 'motherland'