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that guy was certainly the better fighter that night maybe youve heard of him bernard hopkins? every boxing great loses fights with few exceptions
Umm, Tarver beat Johnson once decisively and narrowly lost a SD in a fight where i think won. And he looked great against Woods. I don't know what fight you were watching. His foot speed, hand speed, and overall efficiency looked like the one that fought RJJ. He's obviously got the big lef hand but he was mixing in his punches quite well against Woods. Using the left upper cut along with the jab and left hand. That Tarver gives any 175 fighter fits. And he would put Dawson to sleep.
Hopkins is much more skilled than Tarver. We know that NOW. But before the fight, Tarver was a 3-1 favorite. And rightfully so. Hopkins just showed that he's a class above Tarver. Heck, he's pretty much a class above anyone when it comes to boxing skills and ring generalship. Hopkins has trouble against guys with hand speed and work rate but give him a guy who is methodical like Tarver with average hand speed and he can pretty much do whatever he wants. Tarver also fought a bad fight. You can credit Hopkins but Tarver didn't help his own cause as he was looking way too much for the left hand and not mixing in his punches like he usually does. I mean you can't just look for one big punch against Hopkins, he will see it coming a mile away.
Is anyone else not seeing the big deal with Dawson? If he was British & we were talking about him the way some of the American contingent do, they'd be calling him another hype job.