First of all Ward is fighting a guy that Joe wanted no parts of!!! Secondly, Wards run in the Super Six already surpasses anything the Queen of slapfighting ever did. Besides continuing to win the only other thing Ward can do is find 2 top British SMW's to avoid until they are each about 45, then cross the pond and beat them.
couldnt agree more this fight could count for so mouch more if it was at 175 but making dawson come down in weight wont making him surpass anyone
He didn't make him come down anywhere. Dawson beat Hopkins and right afterward in the post-fight interview said 'I want Andre Ward, I can make 168, let's do this'
Nah, he just stepped up and fought the #1 at lhw instead, he had cleared out the division at the time.
if stepping up is fighting fortysomethings then yes he stepped up. But Cal never defended a title he unified. He chose the easy way instead, to defend one unwanted title.
Dawson is an inactive fighter who lost nearly every round to Jean Pascal and is only relevant coming off a win over a 47 year old Bernard Hopkins not to mention the fact that Dawson is coming down in weight as opposed to a fighter naturally going up in weight to challenge for a world title in a second weight class. Beating an over rated American fighter does not make you the best ever at the weight class.