Bernard Hopkins vs. Sean Pascal, who's gonna win this fight?

who's Sean Pascal. I'm going with Hopkins because I don't know who Sean Pascal is.

 

I have a feeling this fight is where you will see Hops struggling quite a bit. Gonna be a tough fight, I still have to go for Hopkins though.

 

Isn't it Bertolt Hodgkins?

 

I'll actually answer the question this time around. I'll favor Pascal in a close decision. However, I would like to point out Hopkins looked far better against Hakkar than he did against Ornelas and Jones recently.

Pascal is not without faults, he fights only in spurts(but explosively), his stamina is questionable, keeps his hands down at times and he doesn't really counterpunch. Having said all of that, like I said, I'll favor Pascal by a close decision.

 

Pascal all the way.

 

Pascal is stronger than ever. Fact. Ask David Lemieux who sparred with him in Miami.

Pascal UD, 8-4.

 

Really? I wasn't aware.

Just kidding.

I had considered it. But the fact is, Bernard did what he was supposed to do against a guy like Hakkar. He obliterated him. Hakkar was never in the fight and was ****ed up throughout the fight.

Bernard is old now. He looks old. He fights old. Kudos to him for being able to stay up at this level for this long. But those fights against Jones and Ornelas were atrocious. He did what he had to do, but he definately looked better against Hakkar, which you claim he looked bad in, than he did against Jones or Ornelas (who you would probably regard as limited as well, though he has more in his game than Hakkar for sure).

 

Kind of funny, just did a quick search on boxrec and there hasn't been a fighter named Sean Pascal to box. Anyway, I'll probably take Jean Pascal....still undecided though.

 

Sean will get ko'd probably early. I mean this is his pro debut, and although Hopkins is old he is still way too good for a guys first fight atsch

 

No one doubts his brain. And I don't think anyone doubts that he CAN beat Pascal. It's just a matter of will he. Everyone knew Hopkins could beat Taylor, but he didn't (save possibly the first fight).

I don't think the Pavlik comparison stands to reason here. Pavlik and Pascal fight nothing alike and have different strengths and weaknesses. There are a number of reasons that you could point to for Hopkins thorough domination of Pavlik,and like I said, Pascal's not exactly a perfect fighter either. However, I would be far more shocked if Hopkins had that kind of a dominating fight against Pascal.

 

Bernard has to win 7 rounds in Montreal (KO not gonna happen).

But we know that 4 rounds Bernard will take off due to his age/gassing.

So he's spotting Sean Pascal 4 rounds and he needs 7 rounds and he's in hostile territory in Montreal.

It's an uphill struggle.

Then again, never bet against Hopkins...