News - Bernard Hopkins

WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (52-6-2, 32 KOs) lost his title against Chad Dawson (31-1, 18 KOs) on Saturday night at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California. The bout ended in round two when the 29-year-old Dawson hurled the 46-year-old boxing legend Hopkins to the deck and Hopkins injured a shoulder. Referee Pat Russell ruled there was no foul, therefore the California Commission ruled it a TKO win for Dawson read more ...

«He could almost be my son, but I’m used to that,» Hopkins said. «Not many guys who couldn’t be my son are still fighting at my level.» Dawson sees the fight as nothing less than the defining moment of his career. He has been angling for this bout since shortly after he won his first title in early 2007, figuring a win over Hopkins will establish him as the world’s greatest 175-pounder read more ...

Bernard Hopkins 173.4 vs. Chad Dawson 174.2 (WBC light heavyweight championship) Antonio DeMarco 134.4 vs. Jorge Linares 134.6 (Vacant WBC lightweight championship) Kendall Holt 139.4 vs. Danny Garcia 139.4 (WBC/IBF jr welterweight title eliminator) read more ...

According to light heavyweight Chad Dawson, the training location was not a deciding factor in leaving trainer Emanuel Steward after one fight of working together earlier this year. Steward told BoxingScene.com that Dawson refused to train at Steward’s Kronk Gym in Detroit, and wanted to train closer to home in Connecticut. Dawson faces WBC champion Bernard Hopkins on October 15th at Staples Center in Los Angeles read more ...

Former world champion and one-time Bernard Hopkins opponent, Ronald «Winky» Wright is in camp in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, serving as a training advisor to former light heavyweight champion «Bad» Chad Dawson, as Dawson prepares to face the current WBC light heavyweight champion Hopkins on PPV October 15, at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California. Dawson had been training with the legendary Emanuel Steward read more ...

In a stunning twist, WBC-interim light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson has parted ways with trainer Emanuel Steward. Dawson is on the eve of the biggest fight of his career, taking place on October 15th against full WBC champion Bernard Hopkins read more ...

Now that the press tour for his Oct. 15 fight against Bernard Hopkins has ended, Chad Dawson is eager to begin his second training camp with Emanuel Steward. Dawson hired Steward as his trainer in December, but they’ve only worked together for one fight, not nearly enough time to determine how wise it was to replace Eddie Mustafa Muhammad with Steward read more ...

Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2, 32 KOs) believes that he will successfully defend his light heavyweight world title belt against Chad Dawson on October 15th at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. Dawson (30-1, 17 KOs) does not believe he will. The fight will headline an aptly-titled «Believe it or not» fight card, presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Gary Shaw Productions read more ...

46-year-old Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2, 32 KOs) schooled WBC light heavyweight Jean Pascal (26-2-1, 16 KOs) winning a twelve round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Pascal staggered Hopkins in rounds four and twelve, but Hopkins used all his veteran tricks to keep Pascal off-balance and out of his rhythm for a majority of the fight. Scores were 115-113, 116-112, 115-114 read more ...

A quarter of a pound is no sweat for Bernard Hopkins as he weighed in four ounces over the 175 pound weight limit during his first attempt on the scale at today’s final weigh in. He returned shortly there after and made weight. In the end, both Hopkins and his opponent Jean Pascal weighed in at 174 pounds 14 ounces read more ...