Boxing: Hopkins becomes oldest world champion

MONTREAL: Bernard Hopkins, 46, became the oldest man to win a boxing world title when he defeated Canadian Jean Pascal by unanimous decision to claim the WBC and IBO light-heavyweight belts. The bout was a rematch of the duo’s controversial majority decision draw in Quebec City last December. In Montreal, however, all three judges awarded the canny, former undisputed world middleweight champion the fight with Hopkins claiming 116-112, 115-114 and 115-113 majorities.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 23^rd, 2011.