If the following Light Heavyweight Tournament was put together how do you see it playing out? Pool A Bernard Hopkins vs. Karo Murat Tavoris Cloud vs. Nathan Cleverly Pool B Jean Pascal vs. Bebuit Shemenov Chad Dawson vs. Eduard Gutknecht
Pool A Hopkins takes Murat to school UD12 Cloud edges out Cleverly in a MD or SD which many complain was a robbery Pool B Pascal over Shemonov by UD or late stoppage Dawson UD over Gutchknect Semi- Hopkins does the same to Cloud as he did to Pascal UD12 Dawson learns from the first fight and edges out Pascal on points Final- A year or two back when everyone was favouring Dawson over Hopkins, I always thought Hopkins would win. Now the vast majority of people are going Hopkins passed on the pairs fights with Pascal, ironically I favour Dawson. I think Hopkins may have the same problems as he had with Calzaghe and could be edged out in a razor close decision.
Pool A Bernard destroys Murat Cloud KO Cleverly(at this point in time) Pool B Pascal KO Shumenov Dawson UD Gutknecht Semis Hopkins schools Cloud pretty bad here Pascal beats Dawson again Hopkins-Pascal III for the final
Pool A Hopkins ko's Murat Cloud UD Cleverly in a close fight Pool B Shumenov MD Pascal Dawson UD Gutknecht Semis Hopkins UD Cloud Dawson SD Shumenov Finale Hopkins UD Dawson
i dont see hopkins winning i think the age catches up and that cloud and dawson would out work him i think it comes down to cloud or dawson maybe shumenoiv
Cloud wrecks Cleverly. The Dawson who beat Johnson in their second fight, who has his head together and is focused would win the tournament. But I'm not sure Dawson isn't a little scrambled upstairs these days with whatever he's had going on outside the ring.
I've seen nothing to suggest Cloud 'wrecks' Cleverly. The only thing I'm certain I've seen regarding this match-up is that Cleverly is the FAR better boxer.
Cleverly gets hit. Cloud's fought better fighters, hits much harder, and would stop him. I'd love to see the fight happen, but it won't.
At the same time I haven't seen much from Cleverly to indicate that Cleverly is a FAR better boxer. His competition has been soft which can be expected as he's pretty young and relatively inexperienced, had Braehmer not bowed out of his 2nd straight fight against Cleverly we'd have a little better idea.. He does have his weaknesses though and I wouldn't call him a great boxer. In my eyes his talent lies in some of his physical capabilities: he's tall, he's rangy, he's quick, and he has a high workrate and therefore he's a hard guy to deal with and I'm sure Cloud would have his work cut out for him.
Pool A Bernard Hopkins vs. Karo Murat = Bernard Hopkins Tavoris Cloud vs. Nathan Cleverly = Tavoris Cloud Pool A winner: Bernard Hopkins Pool B Jean Pascal vs. Bebuit Shemenov = Jean Pascal Chad Dawson vs. Eduard Gutknecht = Chad Dawson Pool B winner: Chad Dawson Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson = Chad Dawson