No. There was nothing implied; my statement was rather direct. Iron your panties. Fair enough. How he'll perform against world-class opposition is still an unknown quantity. I never said it wasn't. There have been many to quickly leap to very negative assumptions, and who (based on past history of such fervent reactionary skepticism about a touted new talent) will take much convincing, to a perhaps somewhat absurd degree, if he does turn out to be the real deal. That's all I was saying. Like booradley with Abraham - the guy could KO everybody in the Super Six, and then take out Bute and Pavlik in a combined five roudns - and maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe he'd give him a shred of credit (with a dozen asterisks, one for each premeditated excuse).
Cloud is average at best. Johnson will whether his storm early (no pun intended), and will outwork him late when Cloud is sloppy due to fatigue.