Anyone else find it amusing that The Ring website are leading with the Johnson-Dawson fight, when pretty much every boxing fan in the world is talking about Haye-Valuev? :think
ESPN were doing that too, but Valuev-Haye is clearly the bigger fight. Maybe it just didn't get much interest in the USA...
The Dawson vs. Johnson rematch was the one I wanted to see, but the fact is that Johnson started to show his age and Dawson showed his maturity. Dawson is now seasoned against Tarver x 2, Johnson x 2, and Adamek. Lots of upside potential for a guy who is now coming into his own with some very good experience against veteran fighters to lean on.
You were more interested in watching Dawson beat a 40 year old journeyman who he already beat once, than seeing the crowning of a new HW champ - why?
you can spin it any way you want man. Just a better fight imo. Check my previous posts on Valuev if you must. You can slag on Johnson being a 40 year old but how old was Holyfield when he beat Valuev? like 50? Listen, I'm no Haye hater. I made some money betting on Haye so I'm a happy camper. He won exactly as I expected him to. But wake me up if he beats Povetkin or Eddie Chambers. I don't think he would.
My point was that Haye-Valuev was a much more significant and meaningful fight. Johnson-Dawson 2 was about as significant and meaningful as Dawson-Tarver 2. Of course, its obviously down to your personal preference. But The Ring really seem a little out of touch by making Dawson-Johnson 2 the lead story over Haye-Valuev, which judging by the reactions and threads today, is a much hotter topic.
And this is where you become delusional. Had he not bitched out twice and gone the path of least resistance he might have got more credit. BTW he didnt even
Don't really care about this decision, but by and large, The Ring's site sucks. Fischer leaving m**boxing turned one good site into crap and spawned one even crappier.
Haye just won the WBA Heavyweight Championship of the World. It's not delusional, its logical. Also, the guy is 29 years old and has a grand total of 3 fights at HW, and you're bitching 'cause he hasn't fought a Klitschko yet? :think
I didn't know that but I find it amusing now, after reading this thread, that so many people are saying they were more interested in Dawson-Johnson than Haye-Valuev. On here there were about 3 threads on the Dawson fight last night and about 50 on Haye-Valuev, and there would have been more if the site wasn't bogged down with traffic immediately after it. Even on the Dawson ones not a lot of people were posting.
They have good, well written, articles, I like the site. But some of the ranking and editorial decisions they make are very North American-centric, and when boxing is a global sport, and thriving in Europe, I think its pretty outdated approach they have.