Hopkins said this last night "It was a competitive fight from the beginning with some pockets in the middle and it ended with flurries on both ends. I believe I won the fight. This content is protected There were two knockdown early in the fight and I question one of them." If you won 7-8 rounds, after you score the knockdowns that makes it a draw???
If Hopkins won 8 rounds and even if you include the knockdowns, the fight would still be 114-112 in Hopkins favour (thats a rough guess).
He did win. Either way,m it has done a lot for his legacy, being as old as he is and clearly still the wiliest exponent of the sweet science currently going.
Umm the quote right before the one you highlighted says "I believe I won the fight".. so how the hell did you interpret it as him admitting to not winning? You don't work for The Sun by any chance do you Rob? Since when did whatever Hopkins say become pure fact anyway? Some people as yourself scored it a draw, most scored it to Hopkins, even a few scored it to Pascal somehow. It's opinion I guess.
113-113 is the best you can give to Pascal IMO, though you wouldn't have to try hard. It was a close fight, hardly Oscar-Sturm! But I felt B-Hop deserved it. I had it 114-112 on about four of six screenings.