What was Dawsons problem?

Pascal was his problem. Stop looking for reasons, he just lost a fight for ****s sake. End of.

 

It's that simple though mate, he lost a fight. He lost because his opponent beat him on the night.

There is nothing wrong with losing a fight againsed a guy like Pascal. Nothing at all.

 

He couldn't adjust to Pascal and take control of the fight. Pascal on the other hand, had a great game plan and executed it well.

 

He didn't cope well with Pascal's speed and he was often stunned, not necessarily hurt, but stunned with most right hands that were landing on him. That had a psychological effect on his output from the start, made him hesitate and think a little too much in there before letting his hands go.

 

taking rounds off and going on autopilot as always like a dumbass

this time someone was hungry enough to shatter his lack of presence of mind and he got outworked

 

He landed more and threw more what more could he do. He got jobbed. **** Canada!!!!

 

Jean-Thenistor Pascal

 

**** it since this is the 1,000,000,000th thread about this fight...
I'll play devils advocate and say I thought Dawson looked a bit sucked up & probably was over-trained... There have a field day boys.
(Spice it up a bit)

 

I noticed that Pascal landed some very effective body punches in there that took a lot of Dawson's stamina away. Pascal was also slicker and showed a lot more hunger to win.

Pascal was Dawson's problem.

 

Agreed, although he seemed tentative from the outset. If you notice, in the very beginning of the fight Pascal also seemed a little concerned himself about Dawson's ability to hit him when he threw. He also seemed a little tentative. The difference was, it took Pascal all of 2 minutes to get over it, start putting combos together and take the fight to his opponent. Dawson on the other hand seemed to think he could sit back, not throw and somehow he would win rounds over a hungrier opponent in his hometown. I don't get it.

 

First off: Hats off to pascal and his team which came in with an unexpected gameplan (IMO) that ultimately beat chad dawson.

From the first round on I saw something that made me think wow. That was the fact that dawson was the stalker and pascal was the mover. I really thought this would be the other way around and was surprised that dawsons people didn't ajust a little bit to beat the style and strategy that pascal was using.

Pascal's strategy IMO was to jump in with shots(flurries) while dawson moved after him from time to time conserving most of his energy. This basically plays off of fans cheering at every time pascal swings which not only makes it hard for judges but also got into dawson's head. When pascal did jump in with his flurry he rarely landed the first shot he threw(minus a few straght rights), but was able to knock dawson off balance to land the second, third, forth or how many he had to throw to land one. Also Like I always say "Getting knocked off balance even if you block a shot is never a good look to the judges". This basically took chad off his game as he is the hunted and not the hunter in just about all of his fights. When you chase then you surrender your feet to a fighter moving laterally. The pascal strategy turned an all around boxer like dawson into a 1-2 stalker like tarver, trinadad, or pavlik (though a faster less powerful version).

The strategy is simular to the hopkins strategy for beating 1-2 stalkers and pascal put his own twist on it with explosive flurries.

2nd: Dawson showed his heart out there. I always knew he had more heart than people gave him credit for. He knew where he was at and went out and tried to end it and almost got the KO because pascal was so tired. Bad thing for dawson was that he was just about as tired as pascal.

As for the head butts: I think dawson was very cautious of him running in with his head during the flurries. That pretty much happens all the time when fighters match up and fight in this way. Dawson becoming the 1-2 stalker and pascal moving around and darting in, pushing dawson off balance with his body and punches, always makes for head butts when the stalker holds his ground. I think dawson didn't receive many or any significant headbutts to prior to the last one that stopped the fight.

As for the fight stoppage, I thought it was garbage and I can't remember any fight being stopped right at the time of the head butt/cutt. I thought it should have been dawson's choice to continue. Seeing that he didn't argue I guess he was content with the stoppage. These guys were exhausted.


Great fight and can't wait for the rematch. AND yes I have dawson in the rematch