Dawson would beat the hell out of Hopkins

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Pascal had speed and power and he handled it pretty well.

 

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wud walk down dawson ,
n mentally fold like a card-board-piece-of-****.
IMO, wud completely dominate him with teh right lead n jab.

 

Hopkins beats Dawson in my opinion. Can't beat someone like Hopkins being inactive, Dawson is known for taking rounds off and not throwing enough. Hopkins will take advantage of every second in there as proven already and Dawson will give him enough time to think, recover and throw enough to bank rounds. To beat someone like Hopkins you have to be overactive throwing punches all the time like Calzaghe did, only that style will expose his age and limit his activity.

 

It depends on which version of Dawson shows up on fight night. If Dawson shows up with a Wlad like jab and a higher work rate, he wins. If the lazy Dawson shows up, I can see Hopkins bullying, and muscling his way to a close decision.

 

What's your point?, Dawson's last two fights were against Pascal and Diaconu. Hopkins beat Pascal and now wants to fight Dawson, what's wrong there?, didn't he beat the man who beat Dawson?

This is exactly the same nonsense that was said about Pacquiao before fighting Cotto. Everyone was like "Oh, he saw him struggle against Clottey that's why he took it, he should fight Clottey if he's serious". So Pacquiao went on to fight both.

And the same thing was said about Mayweather when he fought Judah. "Ohh, he's only fighting Judah because he saw his last fight, he should fight Baldomir if he's serious".

And examples similar to this situation are endless in boxing.

There's nothing wrong with fighting the loser of a fight when the option of fighting the winner is considerable.

 

If he didn't have the "ballsack" he wouldn't be in the ring, he would be on your computer posting the same worthless nonsense you do.

 

Dawson vs Hopkins will be a replica of Hopkins vs Taylor.

 

Dawson might beat B-Hop, but it's no sure thing. Forget about Dawson destroying him. He doesn't have the tools, both upstairs and in his fists, to get that done. It's not like we're talking about one of the 70's beats here...it's Chad Dawson.

 

Spot on! id rather see Nathan Cleverly face Dawson, Cleverly would nt give Dawson time to think and marvel at his work, to me Dawsons style is perfect for Cleverly, he might have fast hands and a good jab and straight right but hes to lazy and lacks heart, whereas cleverly has a high workrate, stamina variety of punches on the inside and a good jab and straight right when he uses it. At least Cleverly would make a fight of it, yet people critisize him.

 

Hopkins has the skill and experience to slow the fight down to his tempo, Dawson might have fast hands but overall is too slow and doesnt have the killer instinct

 

I can't see anybody that can 'beat the hell' out of Hopkins...

 

I don't see the similarities. Taylor was a lot more aggressive and risk-taking. He wasn't a SP (Hopkins does better against SPs). He was more active. etc., etc.,

Hopkins has a greater style advantage over Dawson than over Taylor, imo.

It should be a very close fight and unless Dawson really goes hell for leather, Hopkins should be able to take a close decision yet again!

 

Nobody has ever beat the hell out of Hopkins and the way he is ageing I doubt we ever see it happen.

Dawson has all the tools to beat Hopkins, speed, workrate and agility. But Dawson seems to have regressed in recent fights, he's not active as he used to be and while he doesn't hold his feet as much as he used to he still makes the elementary mistake of initiating an attack rather than sitting back and looking to counter which would suit his skill set better.

Dawson for me has to be the favourite, he will not be as passive as Pascal and can easily win rounds on workrate alone much like Calzaghe did, and Dawson has the footwork and agility to get in positions to let his hands go unlike Pavlik.

But clearly Hopkins thinks he can win this fight, he has now had plenty of time to study Dawson, so there is a distinct possibility Hopkins has seen something in Dawson he can exploit and maybe pull off another upset.

 

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