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Bernard Hopkins: The Ageless Wonder...And The Statistics To Prove It
BERNARD HOPKINS: THE AGELESS WONDER...
AND THE STATISTICS TO PROVE IT
Below please find statistics that further illustrate Hopkins' longevity as boxing's ageless wonder reaches for history once again.
HOPKINSAGE STATISTICS:
· Hopkinswas born in 1965. In that same year:
o Lyndon B. Johnson was President of the United States;
o The first U.S. combat troops were deployed to Vietnam;
o Malcom X was assassinated;
o The Beatles performed the first stadium concert in the history of rock and roll at Shea Stadium in New York.
· The world's population has doubled since Hopkins' birth year (the population went from 3,334,874,000 in 1965 to 6,775,235,700 in 2011).
· Hopkins entered Graterford State Penitentiary the year Pascal was born (1982).
· Pascal was barely six years old when Hopkins fought his first professional fight (1988).
· When Hopkins won his first world title against Segundo Mercado on April 29, 1995, Pascal was only 12 years old.
· At the time of Pascal's first professional fight (February 3, 2005 against Justin Hahn), Hopkins had already fought 49 professional fights and was preparing to fight Howard Eastman on February 19, 2005 in his 20thdefense of his middleweight crown.
· Hopkins' career has spanned nearly 23 years, seven U.S. presidential terms and 11 Olympic Games.
· Thirty-one of Hopkins' 58 professional fights were against opponents younger than him.
· Hopkins has won two fights (against Kelly Pavlik and Enrique Ornelas) where there was at least a 15 year or more age differential between him and his opponent (Pavlik was 17 years younger and Ornelas was 15 years younger).
· There is an 18 year age difference between Pascal and Hopkins, the largest in Hopkins' career.
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"Dynasty II: Pascal vs. Hopkins" is presented by GroupeYvon Michel and Golden Boy Promotions and sponsored by Casino de Montreal, Videotron and Coors Light. The 12-round WBC, WBC Diamond and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Championship fight will take place Saturday, May 21 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada and will be televised live on HBO's World Championship Boxing beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT in the United States and distributed live on pay-per-view in Canada on Canal Indigo, Bell TV, Shaw TV, Viewer's Choice and Sasktel in French and English beginning at 7:00 p.m. ET. A 12-round light heavyweight bout between former World Champions Chad Dawson and Adrian Diaconu will also be featured on the telecast. Dawson vs. Diaconu is presented in association with Gary Shaw Productions and InterBox.
Tickets, priced at C$500, C$350, C$250, C$175, C$110, C$75, C$50 and C$35, are on sale now and may be purchased at the Bell Centre box office or by calling (514) 790-2525 or (877) 668-8269. Tickets are also available online at www.evenko.ca.
Contacts: Alexandra Croft, Groupe Yvon Michel Inc. (Pascal): (514) 383-0666/(514) 581-7075
Ramiro Gonzalez/Monica Sears, Golden Boy Promotions: (213) 489-5631
Bill Caplan, Golden Boy Promotions: (818) 831-0046/(818) 515-1616 (c)
Kelly Swanson/Lisa Milner, Swanson Communications (Hopkins): (202) 783-5500
Andre Courtemanche, Gary Shaw Productions (Pascal): (519) 253-4290
David Messier, InterBox (Diaconu): (450) 645-1074
Christine Montreuil, Bell Centre: (514) 925-2110
Kevin Flaherty, HBO: (212) 512-5052