What R****d would want a bigger ring against Bernard Hopkins

spot on:good

TBH i have lost alot of respect for Pascal, his team and country.

 

Nah. Pascal fights in spurts. He spends about 2:30 of each round just circling.

Hopkins is old. He looks to cut off the ring when you circle. Why would you want a smaller ring? You want a big ring so you can get on your bike and take a break.

Think of it this way: If Hopkins wants to run from Pascal, Pascal will catch him simply because he's too athletic. If Pascal wants to run, then ollllld Bernard has to chase him around that bigass ring.

Perfectly reasonable and quite smart. If the ring hadn't been that size, Pascal might have gotten stopped in the 11th.

 

Don't know how you can lose respect for an entire country based off of questionable scoring in a boxing match? I'm American, had Hopkins winning clearly and thought he got jobbed, but it did nothing to change my thoughts on Canada.

I don't care much for Pascal or his team either...

 

actually it gave jean a lot of room to run around in. which is probably why he throws 20 punches a round.

 

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Hopkins got dropped chasing Pascal around.

 

Pascal would have been killed in a smaller ring. So good call by his team.

 

The only guy I would ever think would benefit from a bigger ring against Hopkins would probably be Dawson, other than him you are ****ing stupid to try it.

 

Perhaps you are more suited to following x factor than boxing?
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Did you even watch the fight? The bigger ring benefited the circling Pascal.

 

"Most people don't know **** about boxing."

Word, Uncle Roger.

Let's help you not be stupid here:

Pascal beat Dawson by refusing to engage except on his own terms. You know what this means? Circling, running, backing away, and picking your spots to lunge in with power shots. He knew Dawson wasn't aggressive enough to chase him down.

The Dawson fight was not a brawl.

A small ring creates sustained action. You want this if you're in great shape and expect your opponent to run from you. You want a big ring if you plan to conserve energy and pick your spots to engage. If you expect to spend a lot of time on the back foot, you want space (or you end up getting trapped on the ropes).