He's not that hyped. Let's be real. British fighters get more over-hyped. Dawson is not popular enough to even be hyped. People have had these questions about him for awhile.
very true, for us it's never a question about being "good" or not, it's a question about being "great", with alot of other countries they hype fighters that aren't even good and beyond that, he's better then good, but he's just not great right now, but realistically it's only 1 thing he needs to work on, that punch output past the 9th round, i mean it works for him....he's always up on the cards till that point, so he can just cruise and still win, but it creates no excitement, then u just fill unfulfilled cuzz it overlaps how great he was doing in the beginning of the fight but he is still a work in progress, and theres plenty of time to correct this problem, and even with this problem he's still better then alot of the guys in the sport
Dawson is good. But he fights in spurts, against a fighter fighting 3 min. pr. round he'll have problems.
You think if Hopkins or Calzaghe were in this position or any other fighter, you think they would be motivated too? No they wouldn't.
That is precisely what I was saying before the fight and what I am saying now. The outstanding performance he put on against Adamek was an anomaly. Like Taylor, Dawson will always be a threat, but when the pressure is on he will fail because he lacks the heart of a champion.
Dawson is more like Kelly Pavlik to me than jermain taylor. The man who beat the man - Bhop - Taylor - Pavlik Jones - Tarver - Dawson
Pavlik has the will and focus of a champion. I think that was shown against Taylor. Tarver beat a version of Roy Jones that was in decline and he basically made a living off one punch against Jones. What's ironic about Tarver is he said Roy was just making excuses but when he lost a large amount of weight for Hopkins he got his ass whipped. The guy's ego is 10x as great as compared to how good he actually is.