Hopkins has been cherrypicking bums for a reason... He loses to Dawson again, along with Kovalev and Stevenson.
styles make fights and Dawson out hustles him. As susceptible as Dawson is to KOs, Bernard does not possess the one-punch KO power. Hopkins can knock people down when they are moving at him and he lets go with everything, ala Shumenov, but Dawson don't fight like that.
Chad Dawson would win much easier. Did you see Hopkins in his light fight? His speed and work-rate is now starting to resemble that of a 50 year old.