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Southpaw "Bad" Chad Dawson moved effortlessly around the ring while Glen "The Road Warrior" Johnson was mostly flat-footed and looked old.

Dawson fired his right jab, following it up with left hooks and straight lefts. Dawson won the exchanges when they existed over the course of Saturday night's lopsided, 12-round unanimous decision over the aging Johnson before a partisan crowd at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn.

In victory, Dawson improved to 29-0 with 17 knockouts, earning the WBC's interim light heavyweight title while also defending his IBO crown, and in the process erasing all doubt as to who won the first Dawson-Johnson bout in April 2008.

Perhaps Glen Johnson's best attempt at head-games during the buildup to Saturday night's 175-pound rematch with IBO titlist Chad Dawson is his refusal to admit defeat.

The facts are that Johnson was not only judged the loser of their first light heavyweight clash in April of 2008 by scores of 116-112 on all three cards, but that the decision was rendered before a partisan crowd in Miami -- not far from the native Jamaican's current home in Hollywood, Fla.

But Johnson's insistence that he was "robbed" clearly rankles Dawson's promoter, Gary Shaw, and if nothing else, has Dawson so chagrined that he has vowed to turn up the heat when they face off at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn., near the champion's hometown of New Haven.

IBF cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek scored knockdowns in the first and fifth rounds of Saturday night's clash with former three-time heavyweight title challenger Andrew Golota on the way to stopping his larger rival in five at the Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland.

A native of Zywiec, Poland, who lives in Jersey City, Adamek rose to 39-1 with his 27th knockout and his eighth consecutive victory -- his sixth by stoppage.

England's Carl Froch overcame the speed, athleticism and switch-hitting tactics of previously unbeaten Andre Dirrell of Flint Mich., to retain his WBC super middleweight title by a split-decision Saturday night at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham, England.

Froch benefited from referee, Hector Afu's, 10th-round, one-point deduction penalty against Dirrell during a session in which Froch was hurt by the challenger, only to rebound en route to the split-decision that was welcomed by most of the more than 7,000 screaming fans on hand.

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Former undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins will fight hard-punching Enrigue Ornelas on Dec. 2 at the Liacorous Center on the campus of Temple University in his hometown of Philadelphia.

The 12-round light heavyweight matchup for Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 knockouts) precedes an agreed-upon rematch with Florida's multi-champion Roy Jones (54-5, 40 KOs) that is slated for perhaps late January or early February, assuming Jones gets through his cruiserweight bout on the same night against Austrailia's Danny Green (27-3, 24 KOs).

Mark Taffet, Senior Vice President of HBO Sports Pay Per View, said Floyd Mayweather "clearly has proven his star status by generating the kinds of pay per view numbers that very few men in the history of the sport have ever generated."

FanHouse spoke to Taffet, the man in charge of HBO's Pay Per View, as he addressed Mayweather, the Nov. 14 megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto, the cable giant's "hunger to go younger" initiative geared toward drawing America's youth to the sport of boxing, and how the organization determines which fights are deserving of pay television status during this exclusive interview.

Not long before Shirley May Hopkins' death, her son, Bernard, promised that he would not fight too far beyond his 40th birthday.

"Having grown up in the boxing town of Philadelphia, my mom had seen too many fighters' lives go badly," said Bernard Hopkins. "She had seen the way fighters wind up being punch-drunk, broke, with no money, and their names written in an undertaker's book. She didn't want that to happen to me."

But Hopkins, 44, still is fighting.

In fact, sometime early next year, perhaps in early February, the former middleweight and light heavyweight champion will battle Roy Jones in a rematch of a bout won nearly 17 years ago by Jones when the boxers were rising stars in May 1993.

After a long, long wait, Roy Jones vs. Bernard Hopkins 2 may finally be close. Multiple media outlets are reporting that Jones and Hopkins, the boxing greats who first fought each other in 1993, have finally agreed to fight again in 2010, after 17 years of bitter arguing over the terms of a potential rematch.

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- Roy Jones Jr. toyed with the crowd and with Jeff Lacy, stopping the overmatched opponent after the 10th round on Saturday to retain the NABO light heavyweight championship title.

Jones used a left hook to cut Lacy's right eye in the third round, and both of Lacy's eyes were swelling by the seventh. Lacy didn't answer the bell for the 11th round and the referee stopped the bout.

Ariel Helwani and I are back for another installment of our MMA podcast. This week we talk about whether Roy Jones should hang up the boxing gloves and give mixed martial arts a try, try to make sense of Jose Canseco fighting for Dream, discuss the matchmaking of Strikeforce, and consider how the mainstream media covers UFC President Dana White. Listen below.