Hopkins vs Haye: Hopkins will get the beating of his life.

Honestly, from what I've seen, I would favor Ward, and possibly Dirrell.

And these are guys who are fighting live competion. Dawson is fighting the ghosts from Christmas past.

 

It is a flaw when you're fighting against a guy like Tarver who is also a counterpuncher, and you do just enough to leave the judges wondering who won.

Hopkins is an example of a guy who can fight both ways. Ward can fight both ways. Dirrell can fight both ways.

Haye can fight both ways. Floyd can fight both ways.


Dawson is a great at what he does, and he's pfp because of it, but that doesn't mean he's not one dimensional.

 

That might be true, but if Dawson goes in with Haye, he loses, and more convincingly than Hopkins.

And in my opinion is the much less dangerous opponent and winnable fight than Haye.

 

You're right.

And in the words of Floyd, "Who's Chad Dawson?"

You and I know who he is. But your average guy on the street doesn't.

And while people in the US may not know who Haye is, people in Europe know who he is.

Chad Dawson is high risk, low reward, and he's a spoiler. He's not an entertaining fighter to the general public.

 

Come on man.

Who's the last guy Dawson "beat the living **** out of?"

That's not what he does. And he's not exactly a big LHW. He's a smaller guy and he'll get roughed up in the clinches.

And it's not like he has power. True, he has speed, but Hopkins skill helps him negate fighter's that have speed.

And people say that speed kills Hopkins, but the last guys that "won," although Calzaghe really did win, were Taylor and Calzaghe. Both of which came foward.

Dawson doesn't come foward. He is too robotic when he does it, and makes for an easy target for a guy like Hopkins.

It will be a very boring, tenative fight with a lot of feints, a lot of clinches, and very little action.

It's definitely not TV friendly. Both guys will look bad.

 

Hardly dominated.

Did you watch Hopkins vs Tarver? That's DOMINATING a guy. Tarver and Dawson played the, "you punch, I punch" cover up game.

Dawson won because of his output, youth, and speed.

Hopkins beat the **** outta a younger Tarver, and went in for the kill, and almost knocked him out. Completely outclassed him.

Dawson defenitely does not fall in that category with this fight, hence why they needed a rematch in the first place.