Hopkins vs. Dawson, A good fight for 09

Hopkins will seek every other fight out there before he would fight Dawson. First, Chad is not a draw at all. Second, he's better in nearly every aspect to Jermain Taylor, and Bernard is likely to have the same problems -- only worse.

Dawson would out-speed and out-work Hopkins to a competitive-but-clear decision win.

 

This would be a great fight for both men in all aspects except money. Dawson is technical, speedy and filled with enough work rate to bother Hopkins and disrupt his rhythm. Hopkins would also have a hard job keeping up with Dawson.

Hopkins has sneaky power and Dawson has a questionable chin...so that might be Hopkins' way into this fight.

In fact I wouldn't be surprised if this fight went the same way as Calzaghe-Hopkins.

 

A good fight I wouldn't mind seeing.. I'm pretty sure though that Hopkins would fight Kessler quicker than Dawson.. It would be some nice money involved too and could make Dawson a much bigger name..

 

That's about how I see it, although Chad would fight more cautiously than Joe. In the end, his speed and jab would be enough to offset whatever counters Hopkins landed, short of a KO punch.

It's sort of ironic that Hopkins would have had a better chance of beating Calzaghe in Europe. Here, aggression counts for much more, even if it's largely ineffective (and I agree with that scoring, but that's a separate argument), while a more methodical approach works well overseas.

Not sure about the Calzaghe fight, but both Hopkins/Taylor fights would have gone Bernard's way in the UK.

 

He was already offered...and turned it down. He said Dawson was a nobody and he's only focused on Calzaghe and Jones Jr.

So he did turn down the fight. He wasn't scared obviously but he turned it down.

 

Dawson isn't going to blow Hopkins out. That's why I said it'd be like Hopkins-Calzaghe, even if Dawson employed the same strategy Joe did, THE BEST he could do is a very very close decision.

Where as there's a possibility Hopkins could KO Chad.

 

Maybe so. Hopkins can't fight anything like Johnson, however, because he is an ambush fighter now rather than a stalker or a swarmer. I just don't see him landing enough punches to outweigh Dawson's jab and combinations, even if few of those punches land cleanly.

I think Hopkins should seek out Kessler (slower and more conventional than Chad) for his next big fight. That one would be very interesting.

 

Agree.

 

Dawson would probably be in a lose-lose scenario..but if he did the unthinkable and made Hopkins look bad (a small but possible chance), He'd pretty much have a runaway track on fighting Calzaghe.

Anyways the way I see it anybody who beats Hopkins deserves credit. Hopkins at 64 will see be a credible capable opponent.