Hopkins - Pascal II - Predictions

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I got Hopkins via UD.

Bhop is obviously confident, but so much so, that I guess they are already lining Bhop up with the Dawson/Diaconu winner in the fall.

 

can hopkins fight any better than he did last time? i dont think he can.
can pascal fight a better fight this time? yes he can.
no matter what threats hopkins makes and how much **** he talks before the fight, he always comes out and boxes the same dull, tactical, and dirty fight.
i can see pascal setting the pace and keeping it up through the second half of the fight to take a clear points win.

 

The big question is can Pascal fight the full 12 rounds and not start huffing and puffing in the last 6? Will the last fight psycological affect Pascal?

Im thinking Hopkins will pull out another vintage performance and possibly win. Damn, how does that ol man do it!

 

Since the American are broke and the canadian dollar is higher than the american one, we pay the referee now.

Other than that, it will be a great fight to watch.

Although I was impressed by BHop last time, Pascal will get that one this time.

 

Pascal by stoppage or B-Hop by decision, not sure which.

 

Pascal should take this by a comfortable UD.

If he's sufficiently embarrassed by his easing up last time, he might just remove all doubt.:yep

 

Hopkins 8-4

 

I'm leaning towards Pascal by UD ..

 

****...

I thought it was PPV. It's free here in the states.

In that case I'll watch it...

This is a HARD fight to pick though....

I'll just go with Hopkins UD.

 

Ugh, I don't want to pick either. Hopkins has to slow down eventually and he has the judges against him because of the location of the fight, Pascal should be able to pull this off but he gasses too badly. I guess Hopkins close decision.

 

I'm a french canadian and I dont like what happened in the Bute-Andrade I fight. I'm not saying Andrade was robbed since the rules were followed (too much). But I also feel that the ref was pushing and splitting the fighters too much and too soon, and he could have stop the fight before the KD.

Anyway, we talked about that a lot, but one of the real "robbery" that happened up here was the guzman vs funeka fight. It was called a draw and everyone was booing the judge when they called the score card. Yet nobody talked about that one.

But again, their was no local fighter in this decision and so I cannot be against Bute (it was the ref fault not Bute's) and I cannot said for these "controversial" fights that Canada is bad to get a decision.

Do not forget that in the case of Bute, he had since then only non-canadian ref in each of his following fights. And I'm sure it will continu to be that way. I dont have a problem with that, I think it's just fair and since then each "bad" decisions was against Bute, even if their was no big consequence for these bad decisions, since he KOed them all.

Go Pascal Go!

 

I cheer for Pascal, but let's not forget that if Hopkins didnt underate Pascal maybe he would not have been KD in the begining and so he win the fight easy.

So it's all about Pascal's stamina in my view.

 

Pascal

 

Hopkins by UD