Looks like Pascal v Hopkins is on 18th December

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P ascal is a moron for even taking this fight!!!! A fight with Bute could have been made for sure if they worked at it!!! A fight with Bute would have been BIG BIG money and possibly the biggest fight in the history of Canada!!!!

A loss to Hopkins will crush that fight...It can still happen but the money won't be there

He might have made more money fighting Bute in the short term, but I think this could turn out to be a wise business decision on Pascal's part.

Hopkins is less of a threat than Bute and is much more well known in the United States and throughout the boxing world. If Pascal can beat him, his stock will rise exponentially; regardless of age, he'll be the first guy to beat Hopkins since his renaissance. However, if he fought Bute and won, people would call Bute untested and would bring up the ghosts of the first Andrade fight to prove this; if he lost it would be even worse. Bute would benefit more from fighting Pascal than Pascal would for fighting him, and I think I can understand their logic behind fighting what appears to be a quickly fading Hopkins. It's eschewing short-term gain for long-term investment.

I just don't know how Dax can call Pascal for this when Bute is fighting Jesse Brinkley
Pascal resume is about 500 times stronger than Butes will probably ever be. After fighting Daswon this is a great fight for Pascal like you say give him some nice exposure, let Bute carry on fighting gimps.

I think Bute is a much better fighter than Pascal and I think he'll prove so in the long run, but it just makes more sense for Pascal to fight Hopkins. I'm not even sure if Pascal - Bute would be that much bigger than Pascal - Hopkins anywhere in Canada outside of Montreal. Here in B.C. I would be extremely hard-pressed to find anyone who knows who either guy is. Boxing is essentially dead in this country outside of Montreal and there's just very little interest in the sport outside of isolated areas.

Regarding Bute, I think his career has really been badly effected by the Super 6, the controversial first Andrade fight, and his contract with HBO. I don't know how feasible it would have been business-wise, but I really think he would have been a part of the Super 6 had he not had to rematch Andrade. Hopefully with Kessler and Green dropping out, he'll be able to land a big-ish fight after he pummels Brinkley, but he's not getting any younger. It's too bad, because I feel he's arguably the second best SMW on the planet and he just hasn't had the opportunity to prove it. I see him beating almost everyone in the Super 6 and I could even seen him beating Ward (though I would heavily favor Ward).