Pascal-Hopkins: The End Of A Brilliant Career?

Break up your paragraphs if you expect people to read all that in one go.

Also Pascal wont beat Bernard Hopkins, I honestly believe Dawson had a off night.

 

I give Hopkins more of a disadvantage because of his age not inactivity, he fought in April. People think Hopkins "schools" Pascal but people need to remember Hops is in his 40's and will have to fight the fight of his life. All Pascal has to do is be active and he should win. I'm a fan of both but I want Hopkins to retire on a winning note and if he beats Pascal that will be a helluva way to close his career so I'm favoring him a little more. I'm a fan of Dawson too but no excuses, he got outfoxed and has no one but himself to blame for not pressing his fight with Pascal more.

 

Old man Nard' Hopkins W 12.

 

actually, he can blame Pascal, whose movement did not permit Dawson to open up.

 

I see what you mean but it didn't hurt for Dawson to throw more punches though.

I think it's a bad fight too and in no way did I say a shot Jones fights like Pascal, I was just saying Hopkins fought earlier this year so inactivity shouldn't really be brought up. His age should but I'll give Pascal credit if he beats Hops.

 

If he was really hurt by Jones than I worry for Hopkins but I just think he was trying to get breathers so he could try to press the fight more. Pascal-Hopkins sounds like a VERY ugly fight and I won't see it unless Hopkins puts on a clinic or if its a close fight ala Taylor-Hopkins but that was 5 years ago. How much does Hopkins have left and can he pull another upset out of his sleeve are questions I want answered.

 

Styles make fights. No matter what the age of the fighter. My problem with the predictions for this fight is that they are not grounded in this concept. They do not address the styles or technique of these two fighters. Instead most of them go along the lines of yours which state that Pascal is too young and too hungry to lose to Hopkins in Quebec City. I had the same problem with most of the Dawson PAscal predictions. Most of them simply stated that Dawson was just too good and too skilled for pascal...only the people who bothered to look at the fighters and their styles actually realized pascal had a very good chance of winning the fight.

The more I look at the styles of these fighters the more I think PAscal is going to be in for a long night. Even if he does win. PAscal is very good at seeing openings and using his speed to get in and capitalize on holes in this opponent`s defence. With Bernard the holes will not be there. He will have to step out of his comfort zone to beat the lod chcampion.

 

Calderon/Segura just popped up in my mind. Calderon could've possibly did better had he had his legs when he was younger but he still would be in for a tough fight against Segura no matter what.

 

I mean even if it was the same BHOP that fought JCAL, BHOP easily beats Pascal.....But people need to understand how old BHOP is, 45 thats old as hell,

Like previously said, that fight against RJJ scared me a lil

 

Pascal got outfought by froch, you can say styles and all that, but at the end of the day thats what happened, so hopkins can do it if the guy who fought calzaghe shows up

 

Hopkins doesn't fight aggressively every round like Froch and Pascal's run @ lightheavy needs to be studied by the Hopkins camp more than his SMW fight with Froch does. People talk about that fight like Froch sucks, he beat Dirrell & Taylor plus had a close fight with Kessler so nothing wrong with losing to Froch he's a good fighter just awkward. Hell even if Pascal lost to Froch that fight was a war and great for boxing so in a way though Froch clearly won, both guys have nothing to be ashamed of. That being said, I don't think either man is a pushover and I just see it being an ugly fight.