Dawson would make Pascal look silly. He'd beat Pascal to the punch all night, not because he's so much quicker, but because he throws much straighter punches, and unlike Diaconu, Pascal can't keep Dawson far enough away to need to lunge in to get shots off.
I think that technically Dawson is better, but the skill/speed discrepancy isnt as huge as posters indicate. I also love pascals chin/heart/spirit, i think that dawson lacks a bit in that department. He aslo beat the guy dawson was avoiding....to take his old belt :hey If he can drag dawson into a fight, i like his chances
Dawson would out work and outbox Pascal to a UD win. Pascal's best chance is to try and lure Dawson into a brawl, making him fight his fight and hope to hurt him and finish him off. He can't win a boxing match against Dawson who has him beat or equalled in all departments.
If Pascal keeps emerging like he is, he may give Dawson reason enough to stay at 175. My biggest concern for Chad since the second Tarver fight has been that after the upcoming Johnson fight there wasn't an opponent that seemed plausible for television. Hopefully both Pascal and Tavoris Cloud continue to get their seasoning and improve a rather dismal light heavyweight division.