Hopkins may have thought his World title fight days were over

It has been announced that WBC light-heavyweight champion Jean Pascal will make the next defence of his title against American veteran Bernard Hopkins in a fight between two fighters who most consider to be #1 and #2 in the weight class. The fight will take place on December 18 in Pascal’s hometown of Quebec, Canada.

Quite whether Hopkins should be getting another World title shot at 45 is debatable, and his last fight, a tepid points win over an even more faded Roy Jones Jr hardly inspired viewers and certainly didn’t convince anyone that Hopkins is still worth watching, but nevertheless you can never write the Philadelphian ex-con off, and his ring smarts could prove troublesome for Pascal.

Pascal is just coming off the biggest win of his career so far, a decision over the fancied Chad Dawson, so by rights has room to pick whichever opponent he likes within reason this time around, although many will still see Hopkins as a strange choice. You can’t say Hopkins doesn’t deserve it, as he is in many people’s eyes still the top dog at 175lbs, but whether the fans actually want to see it is another matter.

Very little information is available at this time and as details emerge we will pass them onto our readers.

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3. Bernard Hopkins- Lose to Pascal and my career is over
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5. Hopkins vs Pascal expected to be finalized soon