Just finished watching the fight... forty-five years old, and absolutely mugging a world champion almost twenty years younger, in his home town, in a legitimately good/ near-great contest, with the crowd on its feet for the entire final round. This would be an awesome way for him to bow out, although I know he won't. I don't care if the official verdict was a draw, frankly a draw isn't necessarily a bad card for this fight. Hats off to Pascal for his effort. I'm just thrilled to be a Hopkins fan this morning. Every time I wake up expecting to see that he has finally gotten old, like all the greats eventually do, he just keeps on rolling. Simply amazing.
I want a rematch. Hopefully Hopkins will open up in the opening round like he did in 12th. I think he can take this if they fight somewhere else.
Why would Pascal leave hundreds of thousands on the table to fight Hopkins, who doesn't draw anywhere, at a different location? Won't happen.
It was a great fight, one where I didn't expect Hops to open up as much as he did. Ol' Hopkins looked like the Hopkins of old where he pressed the action MUCH more than he usually does in recent times. In his prime he was an offensive machine who could even mix offense and defense. Anyone see the other bout he got dropped twice in(Mercado-Hopkins 1)? Were both KD's legit? Was that better than the great fight we saw Dec.18th?
Have to be honest hopkins wasnt fighting dirty at all and he wasnt boring either, a really good technical performance that he should have won.
This was one of those fights that SCREAMS for a rematch. The first round shoud have been 10/9 Hopkins. The ref made a bad call and it ended up 10/8 Pascal. That cost Bhop the fight.
Hey boo, long time no "see". Yeah, in a lot of ways it does scream for a rematch. Given the crowd reaction, it would put a whole lot of asses in seats again in Montreal, so they would be crazy not to do it from a financial perspective. Hell, Bernard might even have a decent shot at winning outright. It's just as a fan of his, I am afraid he's only got so many of these obviously perfect "leaving on top" moments left. It's getting ridiculous. He could have retired after DLH, Tarver, your boy, RJJ... I just have to admit that he's going to stick around until somebody really and truly beats him up. But hey, I just have to get over it and enjoy moments like these while I can.
This is Hopkins last hurrah. I don't think he will ever look this good ever again...too bad he got robbed.
I don't see Pascal-Hopkins 2 happening especially in Canada again(Hopkins' fault in the first place as he's not the accumulative ko puncher he once was and he most likely wouldn't get a decision there anyways). He most likely won't fight again until 7-8 months from now and add that to the fact that he'll be 46. The rematch I truly want to see is between Dawson and Pascal as they're both young and don't have to worry about father time like Hopkins does. That and a rematch will be completely different if Dawson focuses and applies much more offense so possibly he'll stop Pascal or win by a wide margin. I do want Hopkins to retire but knowing him he most likely will fight on.
Long time Hopkins fan, picked him too. Decision didn't ruin the moment but that performance deserved to make history.
Im afraid i agree with you. His legs look gone. Thats a really bad sign. Also Hopkins doesnt look like he wants to call it quits yet so its gonna be a sad end to his career. Im sure he wont stop until he gets beat up bad.
