Schaefer says Golden Boy will get Pascal stripped if he fights Dawson

He was supposed to be the level-headed guy from outside the game, who would bring some sanity to the fight world. It's taken about 10 years for Richard Schaefer to sound just like every other boxer promoter.

The former Swiss banker, who teamed up with Oscar De La Hoya in the early 2000s, is howling about the decision in the Bernard Hopkins-Jean Pascal fight. Of course, Schaefer is backing his guy Hopkins and claiming anyone who disagrees knows little about boxing.

He's gone even further saying Pascal better grant Hopkins a rematch or else. The Haitian-born Canadian is contractually due to fight Chad Dawson next. Said Schaefer via Fightnews.com:

"He can’t do that. He better not do that because if he does, he’s going to get stripped we’ll see to it and if necessary we will use our vast financial resources to sue the WBC, sue the Canadian commission or whatever it is. I am not going to stand here and take this."

Immediately after the fight, the Canadian fans in attendance in Quebec City had Hopkins' back. You wonder how long that'll last if Schaefer continues to suggest the country is full of buffoons too incompetent to run a world class event on the up and up?

The real joke in this? Schaefer mentioned that the very even-handed Jose Sulaiman is on his side too:  

"I did talk to Jose Sulaiman and he feels as well that this is highway robbery and that he will order that Jean Pascal will have to defend his title immediately against Bernard Hopkins." 

Funny, there's no mention of what's fair for Dawson. And we don't remember Schaefer flipping out when Lamont Peterson only got a draw in his fight against the Golden Boy-promoted Victor Ortiz, the week before. Said Schaefer: 

"I don’t think that’s point here though. This is bad for the sport. It is bad for Pascal. If you guys think that Pascal helps himself with this kind of decision, then you’re wrong because boxing around the world is not going to embrace that decision very warmly."

Sulaiman was full of it or realized that a contract is a contract. Dawson will get the next crack at Pascal.

In the end, what's bad for the sport are promoters blindly backing their fighters and stirring up false outrage. Hopkins fought well, but he let the fight go to the judges. There were media members on both sides of the scoring and more than a few called it a dead-even fight. If Hopkins landed more than 14 punches on average per round, maybe Schaefer would have a case. 

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