Flaws in Stevenson's game.

:smh Its starting to get a little gay with you at this point Jake.:blood

Although Ward does handle Stevenson rather easily.

 

And are you going to deny how hot he is.:yep

 

Yeah Dawson had been dropped heavily and knocked senseless by a shot Edison Miranda in sparring a few weeks prior to facing Ward whilst wearing pillows and headguards and he was also being bashed up every day in camp by 12-1 novice Lionell Thompson. Both Miranda and Thompson subsequently went on to be stopped in their next fights a few weeks after that too.

"It's very simple. That day we were prepared for a ten round workout. In the ninth round, Miranda executed something that I've been telling him to do the whole workout - left [hand], right hand, left hook - and he knocked him down. It was devastating for me, because I don't want to see something like that, but it happened. He was hurt. He tried to get up, he went down again, and got up. In fact, I screamed to Rafael Garcia 'come and help him.''

---Miguel Diaz

This is what Lionell Thompson's trainer Ross Thompson said on the eve of Ward-Dawson about the difficulties Dawson had making weight for that fight. He was there all throughout that camp with his fighter monitoring their sparring sessions. He actually predicted that Ward was going to ''destroy'' Dawson beforehand. Not a single person on planet Earth outside of that camp was predicting that. The overwhelming consensus beforehand was that a Ward win was going to come by way of decision like every single other one of his wins against world class opposition had done.

Ross Thompson

''I got Andre ward destroying chad Dawson 2nite Dawson had a bad camp after getting outboxed every day by my fighter lionell Thompson he finished his camp by getting stretched by his other spar partner Edison Miranda then he wants to get mad at lionell and not pay him for the work he owes lionell 8000 dollars but we will whup his ass in a real fight after ward tax that ass.''

''chad been getting beat up in camp every day and he running around here mad that he cant eat so he will be very weak also from killing himself to make the weight spent most of his camp in the sauna room instead of training but he was so mad that he was gettin outboxed by a unknown fighter that he decided to not pay lionell sayin he never agreed to pay him its ok god dont like ugly he will get his 2nite and then if he accepts the challenge lionell beat the **** out of that statue''

''yep he was real moody in camp cuz he could not eat nobody told his dumb ass to try and get down to 168 sumthin he did not have to do but he put his foot in his mouth but for him to be so mad that he did not pay his spar partners he is a ****ed up person and he will pay 2nite''

Confirmed by Steve Kim on Twitter.

''I'm told by more than one person in the know that Lionell Thompson had his way with Chad Dawson in sparring leading up to September the 8th''

And Tony Bellew posted on the Brit forum at the time that he'd seen the video of the Dawson-Miranda sparring session and that Dawson had been badly hurt.