Will the Hopkins-Dawson decision be overturned?

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  1. purephase

    purephase Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Regardless of how you feel about the outcome in the fight, do you expect the Hopkins-Dawson TKO result to be changed? And if so, to what? NC or DQ?
     
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  2. Farmboxer

    Farmboxer VIP Member Full Member

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    Yes, it was clearly illegal. I was watching a boxing show after the fight, it should have been no contest or disq. Max said it was not legal also.
     
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  3. Samurai's Slice

    Samurai's Slice ESB Legend Full Member

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    I really hope so. I cannot believe dawson. Very angry about this. 2 bad GBP PPV's in a row.
     
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  4. MAG1965

    MAG1965 Loyal Member banned

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    It will probably be overturned but shouldn't. Hopkins faked the injury. I have seen fighters go down harder in fights and get right back up. Even when Hearns went down against James Kinchen, he hit the canvas harder than Hopkins did.
     
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  5. mrtony80

    mrtony80 Likes thick chicks Full Member

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    I wish this fight can be erased from all of our memories like that Charlie Kaufman movie...
     
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  6. Bogotazo

    Bogotazo Amateur Full Member

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    We can't know if Hopkins faked it. All we can go by is whether or not a fighter shoved out of a clinch who falls and cannot continue should be awarded a loss, and his tosser a win.

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    That simply doesn't look legal to me, to lift an opponent off the ground out of a clinch.
     
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  7. popejking

    popejking Adamek Full Member

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    If Hopkins proves that he was really injured, then I think it will end as NC.
     
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  8. mrtony80

    mrtony80 Likes thick chicks Full Member

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    Cotto slammed Clottey worse than that. If I remember correctly, Barerra slammed Hamed pretty hard, too. The difference is, they both got up. Hopkins didn't. The man is in remarkable shape not only for a 46 year old, but for a man of ANY age, yet he gets that hurt off a little tumble to the canvas? I mean, COME ON! :fire
     
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  9. Bogotazo

    Bogotazo Amateur Full Member

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    My dad 'tumbled' in a similar manner around that age and had to get surgery. He wasn't about to fight no Chad Dawson minutes afterwards, either.


    We can't know if he was faking. The fact is a fighter should not be awarded a technical knockout victory due to a shove and fall out of a clinch. It's just not boxing.
     
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  10. teemy

    teemy Well-Known Member Full Member

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    chad totally leverage slammed him into the ground, even taking away his leg so he couldn't right himself, it is not just illegal and dirty, but resulted in an injury (separation of the acromioclavicular (A-C) joint which connects the collar bone and shoulder blade)... this injury is known to cause severe pain at time of occurence

    it is a DQ at a minimum
     
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  11. JunitoJab

    JunitoJab Antagonist Full Member

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    No i don;t think they will.. But they will fight again..

    WAR CHAD
     
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  12. mrtony80

    mrtony80 Likes thick chicks Full Member

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    But Hopkins is an athlete! Jerry Rice played into his 40s, and you never saw him get hurt off normal tackles...
     
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  13. Arcane

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    Great point, athletes never get injured. :roll:
     
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  14. CamR21

    CamR21 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Should be overturned, disgrace giving it to Dawson
     
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  15. kotjinx

    kotjinx Robotic White Boy Full Member

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    According to the WBC rules, even following a foul (which some people think the referee missed), it is the referee's discretion which fighter he declares the winner. He could have done what he did, full stop.

    Therefore, since there is no legal reason to overturn the verdict, I suspect it won't be changed, though an immediate rematch decision would not surprise me.
     
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