Dawson should stop ducking Diaconu, prove his shaky chin and act like a man!

Exactly:good We wouldnt have to drone on like this if that China chinned furcoat wearing ****** of a thief would man up and fight the man who has earned his shot....
I hope you people are ready for the reign of domination of Adrian Diaconu....remember this you hype buying ****s after he cleans out 175:fire

 

I agree.

Pav is is big walking target and one day it will be shown to be his downfall

 

Even Mundine would easily TKO Pavlik.

I'm ****ing tired of this awful Pavlik hype, the guy's a B level fighter who was lucky enough to come along and take the belt off of a PATHETIC champion that was flawed all the way around and weak to his style.

 

For **** sakes, not this again..

 

After all this I still think Dawson is the future of this division. People like to talk about his chin being shaky, but so far he's proven thats nothing more than speculation. In order to be on one of the elite fighters today you half to have a great chin and it seems like Dawson has one. Which makes me believe the 3 times he was knocked down were nothing more than flash-kd's. Calzaghe was knocked down by Hopkins, (who's not a hard puncher) does that mean Calzaghe has a horrible chin? Of course not.

As for Dawson's performance against Johnson, I think what really affected him was switching trainers one too many times. Dawson has already switched trainers 5 times and Eddie Mustafa is a downgrade from Floyd Mayweather Sr. If anyone doesn't think switching trainers effects a fighter, just look what happened to Cory Spinks. Spinks could of beaten Verno Phillips convincingly, but he broke off with long time trainer Kevin Cunningham 3 weeks before the fight which affected his performance. Dawson cannot fight Tarver or Diaconu like he did againt Johnson because he will lose. Dawson needs to get back to his original form somehow.

 

how much did chad make in his last fight

 

Dawson got up fast and recovered quickly which indicated he wasn't hurt. He also survived the last two rounds with no problems. As for Calzaghe, he was hurt by Hopkins and his nose was bleeding at the end of the 1st round.

 

I thought you were referring to the Adamek fight. When he fought Johnson, he wasn't even close to being knocked down, he got hit with hard shots and showed signs of being hurt. But every fighter has shown signs of being hurt, including Pavlik. The fact that he was NEVER knocked down in the fight proved to me he has a good chin. The thing with Dawson is that we NEVER knew how good his defense was until he fought Johnson. And this was the first time he actually was pressured from to round to round. I thought he handled it pretty well, although he could of fought better. I believe if Floyd Mayweather Sr was still his trainer he would of beaten Glen Johnson convincingly.

 

And you have to remember Pavlik was definitely vulnerable when he was knocked down by Taylor in their first fight. Glen Johnson landed some bombs on Dawson and he is a harder hitter than Taylor, and Johnson is a NATURAL LHW. The fact that he weathered the storm and won in a VERY CLOSE FIGHT, just proves to me he has a better chin than some people give him credit for.