Diaconu new WBC champ, Nice Ducking Dawson!!!

Nah, the 4 main titles are all on pretty equal footing. Not a big difference between the best and worse of those.

I just want to see the best fights regardless of mandatories.

I think its worse for mandatories getting in the way of big fights.

Like I pointed out facing mandatories is fine.

But making bigger fights is better even if a belt has to be given up here or there.

 

Well the Diaconu fans sure throw the **** around but not one word about any technical aspect of how Dawson matches up with Diaconu.

All that trashtalking in five threads has told us that the fight is:

A *****, coward, thief, ducker, versus a no-name Romanian who isn't Canadian but now paper-champ who hasn't fought anybody.

 

The WBO have poor mandatories & favour Sports Network fighters, its better for boxing that we don't recognise anymore belts, three is more than enough don't you think?

Don't you also think it would be a lot better for boxing if we had champions holding all three belts? Jones & Hopkins kept theres together for quite a few years. It was good because anyone could get a shot if they worked their way up one of the orgs. It's the way it should be done.

Tell me exactly what makes Dawson/Tarver bigger than Dawson/Diaconu apart from the fact Tarver is American & the networks see him as fashionable. Tarver got the **** beaten out of him by Hopkins two years ago whereas Diaconu is unbeaten. I say fight the mandatory then unify two thirds of the title.

 

1) The double standard between people ripping on Calzaghe for "ducking" Pavlik (who isn't even in his weight class or a mandatory) and applauding Dawson for vacating his belt makes you wonder which one really is on his last legs and is 10 years older. People rip on Joe fighting old fighters, but Johnson and Tarver are a combined 78 years old. Dawson's 25.

2)So long, unification. If he would've beaten Diaconu, there could've had 2 belts on the line when he fought Tarver.

This is a fight that should've happened, dammit. Spare me the "Diaconu's a bum" spiel. If he were that ****ing easy of an opponent, Dawson would've taken the payday and knocked him the **** out.

 

This post is wrong. Diaconu won that fight straight up and I'm not sold on Diaconu either. He punches like a beast, but at 5'9, he is too small for a lhw.

I don't understand why people are wildly upset about this fight not happening. To be sure, it would have been a great match-up. Calzaghe will retire after his fight with RJJ, vacating the linear title. Hopkins will likely retire now although there has been no new news from his camp in a while. RJJ will move up in weight. Leaving Diaconu, Dawson, and Tarver. Diaconu will now fight Johnson in Romania for the WBC belt. Dawson will fight Tarver in Vegas for the IBF. Assuming Diaconu is as good as some of the Canadians on this board make him out to be, he'll beat Johnson and get another chance to fight Dawson if Dawson beats Tarver.

 

It's not Diaconu, it's Romania.

The Champ should not have to travel to fight a small name fighter.

Americans go over seas to try and take belts off guys, and Euro's should come over here to try and take American's belts.

The Diaconuthuggers fail to mention the Romania part as the main point of contention.

Enjoy your paper champ until he fights Johnson.. he'll be ex-champ then.

 

Solid Post.

The only difference is that JC is retiring after the RJJ fight; we'll never get to see him fight Pavlik. Enzo and his camp talked madness about Pavlik in the weeks before the Lockett fight: "Pavlik is a straight-up 1-2 fighter," and "Joe will maul Kelly" etc. Then, for them to see Pavlik turn Lockett's face into swiss cheese and hastily decide not to fight Pavlik, was to put it mildly, vexing. As you mentioned Dawson is 25, and has a whole career to fight Diaconu.

Dawson v. Diaconu would have been a lot of fun to watch, but it still may happen and in the meantime we get to see Diaconu prove himself versus Johnson and Dawson redeem himelf versus Tarver.

 

I'd like to see just one champ or hell even 2 at this point per division.

But I think the WBO has caught up with the other 3 or atleast pretty close to it.

Tarver is a much much much bigger name than Diaconu and I'd also add he is still the better fighter.

I don't even think that point is debateable.

Showtime wants it a lot more than the Diacuno fight.

Besides Tarver has a belt so does it really matter which one Dawson fights for-his or Tarvers.

The way it is today holding more than one belt at one time is a rarity.

 

Good to see you're doing your bit to elleviate peoples feelings about ignorant Yanks.:good

 

**** Diaconu and his blind ******ed fans.

 

Great contribution to the thread.:good

 

I'm tried of actually trying to make sense to dumb ****ing people so now I simply insult.

 

Why? To turn threads into childish slanging matches?

 

Where are you ``Fragile Chin`` Dawson ?

 

Nice post. Although I'm still not sold that Joe retires with his last fight in the US, you bring up good points all around. I hope you're right that Dawson-Diaconu comes off at some point at time. I'm just a little concerned that because this isn't the first time the fight didn't go down, that one side or the other is going to get fed up and that it'll never happen even if both guys have belts eventually. Hope I'm wrong, though.