What is up with Pascal's conditioning??

The Body punches got to him, no doubt about it!

 

Cant remember when he hasn't gassed last time .

 

Getting hit in the liver

 

Spot on. Pascal always fights in spurts and he really only fights one way. He usually does very little then attempts to bull rush his opponent which against a fighter as defensively aware as Hopkins, is never going to work. Pascal is really one dimensional and Hopkins once again exposed another young rising fighters weaknesses.

Dawson has all the tools to beat Pascal with ease but he doesn't have the boxing brain and discipline to do it every time. He has a very bad habit of staying in punching range and admiring his work after landing some punches and that is when Pascals bull rushes him and causes Dawson all kind of problems.

 

Pascal has the same problem as Jermain Taylor in my opinion, and that is that they're both soo ****ing jittery, even when not throwing punches and use so much body movement.

 

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Exactly. I was expecting Pascal to fade as usual in the later rounds though. around 9 on. But the body shots Hopkins was landing were great. Very hard punches and you could see they paid dividends very early. Much earlier than it would have taken had he not worked the body.

Hopkins is a damn genious.

He did his homework this fight. Its a shame he couldnt get the title.

 

Hopkins landed body punches while Pascal was using so much energy to rush in.

 

This hasn't just happened in this fight, Pascal fades when he should be overwhelming his opponents in the later rounds. Hell, Dawson almost had him out of there.

Pascal has too much wasted movement in the ring and never seems relaxed. He also looks to have way too much muscle for a boxer's frame and it doesn't seem to serve him all that well. Froch would beat him again.

 

Hopkins hit him with murderous body shots and wore him down with clinches IMO. And this coupled with Pascal's already not so great stamina caused him to tire pretty quickly. He needs a new conditioning coach.

 

I think its because he drinks champagne at fancy nightclubs too often

 

Bhop was landing some brutal body shots on Pascal. That probably was enough to slow him down. Plus Pascal is a fighter who likes to take some rounds off as a break(Ali was the same). I heard him say that once in a OTR radio interview. There aren't too many guys that can go all out for 12 rounds except the freaks like Calzaghe and Pacman.

 

His footwork is horrible! He really needs to work on that foot work ..

 

Considering Pascal's workrate, (or lack there of) it makes even more alarming that he gasses in fights.