Shaw and Hopkins camp get into yelling match
By admin | May 12th, 2009 | Category: Boxing News | No Comments »Chad Dawson got the job done on Saturday but was it enough to get a Bernard Hopkins fight? At the postfight press conference, Dawson’s promoter Gary Shaw said that it doesn’t matter what "Bad Chad" does, Hopkins isn’t going to fight him. Shaw saw BHop on ESPN on Friday night saying the money has to be right. Shaw’s response:
"Bernard is full of [exple
tive]!"
That prompted Hopkins’ camp member Malik Chambers to snap at Shaw during the press conference. Chambers took issue when Shaw said that Hopkins had offered Tomasz Adamek $300,000-$500,000 for a fight. Chambers told Shaw to mind his own business because it was really $1.2 million. For some reason, Hopkins also told ESPNRadio1100 that it $500,000 last week (3:05 mark). There seems to be some disconnect between Chambers and Hopkins or is it possible that in the week since the BHop interview, Adamek was offered $1.2 million?
Dawson told ESPNRadio1100 there haven’t been any negotiations with the Hopkins camp (7:00 mark) so it seems a bit odd that Chambers would be yelling out, "get the money right!" during the press conference:
"There’s not been one second of conversation. So how can he say it’s a money issue? What he should say is, I’m going to have my representatives call Gary Shaw and work out a deal."
Watch Shaw talk about Dawson v. Hopkins with Yahoo!:
Shaw says he’s not going to chase Hopkins. Fortunately for fight fans Dawson does have the option of going down to 168 pounds to take on Carl Froch or Mikkel Kessler. Is there any other fight we care about for Hopkins other than Dawson?