How many of these boxers would you pick Kessler to beat?

Great post. Dawson would beat Kessler though. Dawson is a real talent.

 

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Not bad, even if you are too high on Taylor and Hopkins.

 

I like all your picks except the last one. Dawson is faster, bigger, and still powerful. He can do things in the ring that 99% of fighters simply cannot. The way he uses the angles, throws unorthadox combinations, and utilises his superior technical skills is impressive. Kessler is far to orthadox to be able to deal with someone like Chad.

 

You might be right, but if Kessler handles JC, its almost certain to say that he can handle Dawson. Chad still makes youthful mistakes.... But no doubt its a name that will resound throughout the boxing world for many years.

 

You make some real good points

 

IMO ithink that on a night where everything just works,he can take anybody,that we are talkimg about......maybe dawson is a too big a cake to swollow.

 

Dawson is the only one that even poses a threat.

Come on guys, Wright and Taylor? Wright is 35 and hasn't been all that impressive at 160 and looked like **** at 170, which is 2 pounds north of 168. Wright could not beat old man Hopkins at 170, how will he beat a young, skilled, powerful and quick technical boxer puncher who even has a more pin point jab than he does himself?

This how 'names' get seriously overrated.

Taylor? Please. He barely gets by the Cory Spinks' of the world. Style don't favour him here, nor does he have the skill to compete with someone who is of superior quality in every area and of a similiar style.

Hopkins? Well, let's see, he couldn't beat Taylor clearly, how's he going to beat Kessler when he's at the end of that jab all night? Hopkins was cautious of Taylor's counter punches, he'll be even more so of Kessler counter punches.

Pavlik? No defense, too sloppy, too slow.

Kessler beats all of them but Dawson, and in that bout, I'd slightly favour Kessler in fact.

 

Let me ask you McGrain, do you consider an old Hopkins and Wright to be the true 'top 1%' when it comes to the 160-175 crop.

Taylor would be a fish out of water against Kessler and at 168.

 

So let me get this straight Blockhead. Taylor is more dangerous than Dawson?

**** off you obnoxious piece of garbage.

 

'Molested' by Mundine would more accurately describe that fight as opposed to 'caught'.

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Bernard called out for Joe Calzaghe to fight in the Yankee Stadium, NYC, and predicted he would knock out Joe, please check out Bernard's interview with Max post fight with Winky... He called Joe cause Calzaghe is the Top Dog in the SMW Division at the Global Scale and that's why Mikkel needs to overcome the Welsh to get fights which would make him a SuperStar Worldwide, not definitely fighting Librado Andrade on HBO just...

Hopkins is a very crafty, rough and tricky 6' 1'' tall, superbly fit physical specimen who beat to the punch genuine LHWT lefty Antonio Tarver alongside with the best defensive, tricksy, slickiest MW/SMW in the world, former unified LMW champ, former nº1 WBC MW Contender Ronald Wright... Remember that same 42 year old is the longest MW undisputed Champ & Titles holder ( 10 years and 8 months, 20 successful title defenses from 1994 to 2004) and he was beaten by a 6' 1'' broad shouldered, massive tree trunk youngster in Jermain Taylor from the US class of 2000, in what were two extremely competitive fights at the highest level... Now, you want to compare these with Mikkel Kessler? I'm sorry, Kessler may be a potential Top Class 168 pounder ( 160-168 pounds, 72-76 kg, all the same let's face it) but he is not about there yet based on the facts, not on predictions and fortune telling, again no disrespect to Mikkel who may come across with JT on his own way up in weight and even B-Hop if the Dan beats Joe...

 

It is safe to call out a pre-occupied opponent as mentioned earlier.

 

I have never thought otherwise. Nor do I care about Kessler facing an old man - Calzaghe is the best Kessler can fight, from 160-168, and with the exception of Erdei and Dawson, none at 175 either.

Btw, if you want to post lines of what I have said, don't leave something out - you forgot this: "Names does not equal bigger threat".

Before you go into some rant of hailing Hopkins, Taylor, Winky et al, you must understand Tarver was **** in his Hopkins fight, and is 36 years old. Oh yeah he beat way-past prime RJJ, then showed up against Hopkins totally out-of-focus, hardly trained. Taylor gained recognition for fighting a Hopkins that, even if he is a physical speciman, is no longer a top top performer, neither is Taylor. Taylor went on to face smaller men, including Winky. Winky had to go from natural 154 to 175 to fight Hopkins, and with Winky being feather-fisted, what threat would he pose? All of them have low work-rate.

If you don't acknowledge these facts, but just go about names, and not taking weight, style and fading by age into account, then you are just kidding yourself.