Saturday, Dec. 18 -- at Quebec City, Canada (Showtime)
WBC light heavyweight title: Jean Pascal vs. Bernard Hopkins
Paul Malignaggi vs. TBA
 Real name Jean-Thenistor Pascal Rated at Light Middleweight,Super Middleweight Light Heavyweight (Current) Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Nationality Quebec French-Canadian Birth date October 28, 1982 (1982-10-28) (age 27) Birth place Port-au-Prince, Haiti Stance Orthodox Boxing record Total fights 27 Wins 26 Wins by KO 16 Losses 1 Draws 0 No contests 0 |  Real name Bernard Humphree Hopkins Jr Nickname(s) The Executioner,B-Hop Rated at Light-Heavyweight, Middleweight Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Nationality United States American Birth date January 15, 1965 (1965-01-15) (age 45) Birth place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Stance Orthodox Boxing record Total fights 58 Wins 51 Wins by KO 32 Losses 5 Draws 1 No contests 1 |
Jean-Thenistor Pascal (born October 28, 1982 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a French Canadian professional boxer and the current WBC, IBO and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight Champion.When Pascal was 4, his mother (a nurse) and older brother (Nicholson Poulard) left Haiti for a better life and education. They settled in Laval, Quebec, just outside of Montreal. His father, a well-respected politician, remained in Haiti. Pascal played hockey and football, but watching his older brother become the Quebec boxing champion in 1996—Pascal, at 13 years of age, started to visit boxing gym "Club Champions St-Michel" once or twice every week. His first trainer was Sylvain Gagnon, who considered Pascal to be very talented. According to an interview from May 2005, Pascal's idol was Roy Jones Jr.
Bernard Hopkins, known as the Executioner (born January 15, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American boxer. He is known for his ten year reign as middleweight world champion in which he successfully defended his title a record 20 times. He is the first fighter to retain all 4 major boxing governing body belts including the Ring Magazine belt in the same fight. In addition to being an active boxer, he is also a minority partner with Golden Boy Promotions.Born to Bernard Hopkins Jr. and his wife Sue. Bernard grew up in the Raymond Rosey projects with his family. Hopkins turned to crime early in his life, by the age of thirteen he was mugging people and had been stabbed three times. At seventeen Hopkins was sentenced to 18 years in Graterford Prison for nine felonies. While in prison he witnessed rapes and the murder of another inmate in an argument over a pack of cigarettes, but also discovered his passion for boxing. After serving almost five years, Hopkins was released from prison in 1988 and decided to use boxing as an escape from his previous life, and converted to Islam. While leaving the prison for the final time, the warden told Hopkins he'd "see [Hopkins] again when you wind up back here," to which Hopkins replied "I ain't ever coming back here."***
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