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Woman charged with burning her 3-year-old ... Morning fire damages rear of Medford home ... LBJ sequel, musical topped OSF choices for 2014 season ... Woman charged with burning her 3-year-old ... Morning fire damages rear of Medford home ... BOXING Kovalev dominates Hopkins in 12-round title bout By The Associated Press MailTribune.com By The Associated Press Posted Nov. 9, 2014 @ 12:01 am By The Associated Press Posted Nov. 9, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Social News ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Bernard Hopkins will turn the big 5-0 without a championship belt around his waist. Sergey Kovalev roughed up Hopkins from the opening bell, sending the aging fighter to the canvas — and possibly into retirement — with the fight he needed to serve as validation that he's the class of the 175-pound division. Kovalev used his punishing knockout power to abuse Hopkins for 12 rounds, winning a unanimous decision early Sunday to stake his claim as the best light heavyweight. Kovalev, who missed the birth of his son because he was training for the fight, has three versions of the 175-pound belt after taking two from the 49-year-old Hopkins in the decisive victory. Kovalev is 26-0-1 with 23 knockouts. And he's really just getting started. "It was not easier than I thought," Kovalev said. "I was ready for 12 rounds. I thought he was the best fighter in the world at light heavyweight." Kovalev received winning scores of 120-107 from two judges and 120-106 from the third. The 31-year-old Russian won the IBF and WBA light heavyweight belts to go with his WBO title. Two months shy of 50, Hopkins (55-7-2) could face retirement after a rare title bout where he was never a factor. Kovalev knocked down Hopkins in the first round and never backed off his hammering pace. "No matter what age you lose, you lose," Hopkins said. Kovalev hadn't fought past the eighth, but was at his best and showed his stamina against Hopkins in the 12th. He wanted the KO and battered Hopkins against the ropes, making the Philadelphia fighter at last look his age. "I wanted to show fans that I know how to box and I did," Kovalev said. "I tried to go for the knockout in the 12th round. He has great defense. He's the best boxer in my division." Hopkins felt every single one of Kovalev's blows in the 12th. And there were plenty of them in that final round. Kovalev landed 38 punches in the final round, the most ever against Hopkins in 41 fights tracked by CompuBox. The pro-Hopkins crowd chanted "B-Hop!" and "U-S-A!" to rally the veteran driver. It didn't work. Kovalev dropped Hopkins with a solid right early in the first round, but the veteran hopped right up. Kovalev smelled blood and became focused on finishing off Hopkins with a knockout. He pummeled Hopkins in the final 45 seconds of the third round. Kovalev was at his best when he backed Hopkins into a corner and unloaded body shots that left him reeling. Hopkins just wouldn't go down for good. He had his best round in the seventh, landing a couple of rights that had little meaning in the long run. Kovalev answered in the eighth with a hard right that wobbled Hopkins. He kept the hits coming until the 12th. Respect for Hopkins' Hall of Fame resume was about the only thing that kept the referee from stopping the fight. "I give him a lot of respect, we both would fight anyone," Hopkins said. "That's how we ended up here tonight. That's what brought us together." But did it bring Hopkins to his professional end? Hopkins will return to Philadelphia and consider his options. "I really don't want to say anything," Hopkins said. "It's been 50-50 for the last nine years." Hopkins lost his professional debut to Clinton Mitchell at Resorts Casino in Atlantic City in 1988. Kovalev was just 5 years old and living in Chelyabinsk, Russia at the time. Hopkins took 15 months off before fighting again, defeating Greg Paige at Philadelphia's Blue Horizon, the first of 22 straight victories that wouldn't end until he lost to Roy Jones Jr. in 1993. The 45-year-old Jones was on HBO's broadcast team for the fight. Never a stylistically crowd-pleasing fighter, Hopkins hasn't knocked out an opponent since Oscar De La Hoya in September 2004. De La Hoya was at the fight, too. Hopkins is a minority partner with De La Hoya in Golden Boy Promotions. De La Hoya said after the fight Hopkins will fight again and still has options in a lower weight class. "One thing I know for sure is that he is not going to retire," De La Hoya said. At 46, Hopkins became the oldest fighter to win a major world championship in 2011 when he defeated Jean Pascal. He dropped the WBC version of the light heavyweight belt to Chad Dawson in 2012, setting him up again to break his own record of oldest fighter to win a championship in 2013 with a unanimous decision victory over Tavoris Cloud. Hopkins was 48 when he beat Cloud. He won his next two bouts to set up the unification fight with Kovalev. Now, it's Kovalev's turn to stand atop the division. "This is why I took a shot," Hopkins said. "The danger is always there with a puncher. That's why I chose to fight him. I've been in there with a lot of great fighters from the middleweights to know, and Sergey is the real deal." 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