Sunday, May 22, 2011

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Bernard Hopkins erased the legendary George Foreman from the record books when he became boxing's oldest world champion with a points decision over Canadian Jean Pascal to win the World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight title. World light-heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly says a fight with veteran Bernard Hopkins could be on the cards for his next defence of his title. At the age of 46, Bernard Hopkins cam through on a promise to be the world's oldest title holder in the sport of boxing. When Hopkins beat Jean Pascal on Saturday night May 21st, he displaced boxing great Goerge Foreman (you know, they guy from those George Foreman grill commercials) who held the record at [...] Hopkins v. Pascal 2! As Girlboxing readers know, I am a woman of a certain age, so watching Bernard Hopkins school young Jean Pascal with skill, tenacity, grit and a master's knowledge of the game was sweet vindication indeed for the misjudging their first battle received back in December 2010 when Hopkins obvious win was [...] The record will reflect that 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins became the oldest world champion in boxing history Saturday night, thoroughly dominating Jean Pascal for the light heavyweight title in a unanimous decision. 46-year old Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2) won a unanimous decision over Jean Paschal (26-2-1) to win the WBC light heavyweight title last night in Canada. After the fight, Hopkins said that he wants to fight until he's 50 years old and I don't think he's just blowing smoke.  He has kept himself in outstanding shape and [...] MONTREAL (AP) -- Bernard Hopkins became the oldest fighter to win a major world championship, taking the WBC light heavyweight title Saturday night from Jean Pascal at the age of 46. Bernard Hopkins became the oldest fighter to win a major world championship, taking the WBC light heavyweight title Saturday night from Jean Pascal at the age of 46. > Jean Pascal, from Montreal, takes a left from Bernard Hopkins, right, during their WBC light heavyweight world title fight Saturday, May 21, 2011 in Montreal. The 46-year-old Hopkins (52-5-2) is the oldest fighter to take a major world belt since Geroge Foreman took the heavyweight title with a victory over Michael Moorer in 1994. > Bernard Hopkins, from Philadelphia, celebrates after defeating Jean Pascal, from Montreal, with a unanimous decision to win the WBC light heavyweight world title fight Saturday, May 21, 2011 in Montreal. The 46-year-old Hopkins (52-5-2) is the oldest fighter to take a major world belt since Geroge Foreman took the heavyweight title with a victory over Michael Moorer in 1994. > Jean Pascal, left, from Montreal, takes a right from Bernard Hopkins during their WBC light heavyweight world title fight Saturday, May 21, 2011 in Montreal. Hopkins scored a clear victory by decision in a street-fight of a match Saturday to take Jean Pascal's WBC light heavyweight title and become the oldest world champion in boxing history. > Jean ... Bernard Hopkins declared he was robbed of becoming the oldest major world champion in boxing history when he had to settle for a majority draw against Haitian-born Canadian Jean Pascal. Bernard Hopkins became the oldest champion in boxing history Saturday night by winning a unanimous decision against Canadian Jean Pascal to claim ... MONTREAL (Reuters)- Bernard Hopkins, 46, became the oldest man to win a boxing world title on Saturday when he defeated Canadian Jean Pascal by unanimous decision to claim the WBC and IBO light-heavyweight belts. Bernard Hopkins became the oldest fighter to win a major world championship, taking the WBC light heavyweight title Saturday night from Jean Pascal at the age of 46. A day after former middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins unleashed a racially charged rant at Donovan McNabb, the quarterback responded through his agent on Thursday. Bernard Hopkins missed a chance to become the oldest boxer to hold a major world title, fighting to a majority draw with Canadian Jean Pascal on Saturday night. Lately, it seems that I'm surrounded by thoroughly unreasonable people. I started the day reading an except from Share Our Strength founder Billy Shore's upcoming book, The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men, posted on John Hopkins Carey Business School's website. He talks about three philosophical underpinnings of breakthrough thinking: that good is not good enough; that most failures are failures of imagination; and that irrational self-confidence can be a good thing. Without these three convictions, says Shore, most efforts to solve our toughest problems will falter. "Taken together," he concludes, "they affirm the wisdom of George Bernard Shaw who said, 'the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.'" I'm familiar with the quote, of course, since I'm reminded of it every time I receive updates from the Unreasonable Institute, which I blogged about last year. You may recall that Unreasonable is an accelerator and incubator for high impact social enterprises; it runs an online competition where for-profit and not-for-profit entrepreneurs raise money for ventures that seek to solve major world problems. Recently, I've spent some time with one of ... Bernard Hopkins plans to pull off a historic victory when he faces Jean Pascal in their light-heavyweight rematch. 46-year-old fighter punishes opponent Jean Pascal in Saturday night Bernard Hopkins beats Jean Pascal to become the oldest major world champion in boxing history at 46 years old. Bernard Hopkins fails in his bid to become the oldest boxer to hold a major world title after his bout against Jean Pascal ends in a technical draw.
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