Comments Thread For: Gary Shaw: We Chased Bernard Hopkins For Years

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

There was a time when Chad Dawson was the young light heavyweight titleholder in a division full of experienced big names ?none of whom were fighting him.

But Dawson has since had two bouts with Glen Johnson, two bouts with Antonio Tarver and now has had two bouts with Bernard Hopkins.

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[ИATAS]

even gary shaw giving bhop respect. seemed like it was all respect on both sides in that post fight conference, like to see that

[Ray*]

Yea I remember how Hopkins never wanted to fight Dawson and we all knew why, The moment pascal beat Dawson Bhop jumped on that as*.

[ИATAS]

Yea I remember how Hopkins never wanted to fight Dawson and we all knew why, The moment pascal beat Dawson Bhop jumped on that as*.

to be fair hopkins said he wanted the winner of pascal dawson and pascal won. he obviously did fight dawson so he gets credit.

[DiegoFuego]

Hopkins should have fought Dawson in 2009 when everyone wanted the fight and the outcome was still in question. But at least it finally happened.

[circleinsidebox]

to be fair hopkins said he wanted the winner of pascal dawson and pascal won. he obviously did fight dawson so he gets credit.

that was in recent times
but before (2-3 years ago)
he would always say he wasn't fighting the young guys (like dawson)

[djtmal]

bernard hopkins, on video, stated that he would fight the winner of dawson-johnson 2, instead he fought shotroy jones...its obvious, that bernard hopkins, tried to avoid chad dawson, as long as he could...

[ИATAS]

bernard hopkins, on video, stated that he would fight the winner of dawson-johnson 2, instead he fought shotroy jones...its obvious, that bernard hopkins, tried to avoid chad dawson, as long as he could...

maybe that was a mistake fighting jones but I think hopkins always wanted a revenge fight with jones and he probably figured it would be more money (which it ended up doing very poorly). You have to remember dawsons ratings were pretty bad and hopkins is usually going to go with who he thinks will be more money, but again, probably a mistake on his part as the jones fight meant nothing.

[NachoMan]

bernard hopkins, on video, stated that he would fight the winner of dawson-johnson 2, instead he fought shotroy jones...its obvious, that bernard hopkins, tried to avoid chad dawson, as long as he could...

What is up with ducking talk? Nobody was forcing Hopkins' hand. At 47 years old, with his resume, Bernard had nothing to prove. He fought Dawson (twice) because HE wanted it. You could have called him a ducker if he never fought Dawson, but it's happened twice already, so wtf??

[Russian Crushin]

It's pretty obviously why Hopkins avoided Dawsom for years