'Harvard' Hopkins out to educate Dawson.

Byline: By Bernard Fernandez

Aug. 10--NEW YORK -- "Styles make fights" is perhaps the most oft-recited advisory in boxing, perhaps because the message it conveys is usually spot-on. If defensive genius Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins and his technically proficient but somewhat cautious challenger, "Bad" Chad Dawson, stick to form in their Oct. 15 WBC light-heavyweight championship bout at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the forecast likely would call for a pugilistic game of chess -- and the prize ring is not a place most action-craving fans would want the principals in a big-time bout to be searching for Bobby Fischer. It isn't difficult to imagine Hopkins (52-5-2, 32 KOs) and Dawson (30-1, 17 KOs) trying to lure one another into carefully laid traps, and each being savvy enough to avoid taking the …