Who's gonna man up & admit they misjudged Pascal?

I misjudged Dawson.
Never said Pascal was crap.

 

Only bc Froch beat him. Should be a good rematch!

 

This is why nobody gives a **** at what you say..................

 

fighter86 is the only bum here,

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First time watching pascal and he looked tired at times but he would still bumrush outta nowhere. He put up a good fight cant complain. It was no robbery give the man credit. Chad practicaly gave the fight away,dude was boxing like he was ahead ont he scorecards.

 

I was the one calling Pascal total bum.. i was wrong.

Maybe I overlooked Pascal and maybe little over rated Chad.. Maybe I thought too much of Chad. It just looked me when watched Bad Chad fighting guy had all the skills in the world and was very athletic guy.

 

I thought Dawson would cruise to a comfortable UD. I underestimated Pascal big time, and was very surprised/impressed with his performance last night. Well done Jean

 

I never said pascal was crap, but I definitely said chad would box his ears off, not because I felt Pascal was bad but because I felt BCD was on the verge of becoming a great fighter. I think his mental toughness has to be put now in doubt.

great win for pascal and I was wrong in my call in this fight.

 

You may be right. I wasnt against Pascal in this fight since its home town fighter, but I sure didnt think he will win it. So sorry Pascal to have been a non believer!

 

Lost some money here? sorry for your lost, but Pascal did win.

 

I've never seen Pascal before last night so what do you mean he is a front-runner? So you are saying he is always ahead and leading in his fights ? He was definately a front-runner last night though as he was ahead the whole fight.

 

I underestimated him. I didn't think the fight would be close enough for biased judging or a early(corrupt) technical stoppage to matter. Dawson didn't push the issue until too late in the fight and I had Pascal ahead at the time of the stoppage. To be fare I hadn't seen Pascal fight for at least two years. I think he is much improved and if he fights Bute, Cloud, or any of the super 6er's it will be an event.

 

ive been a pascal fan for a long time and always favoured pascal to win. i actually said it would be an upset in my eyes if he lost. a lot of people said i was wrong.

 

I picked chad to win by an 8-4 type of margin.

First off: Hats off to pascal and his team which came in with an unexpected gameplan (IMO) that ultimately beat chad dawson.

From the first round on I saw something that made me think wow. That was the fact that dawson was the stalker and pascal was the mover. I really thought this would be the other way around and was surprised that dawsons people didn't ajust a little bit to beat the style and strategy that pascal was using.

Pascal's strategy IMO was to jump in with shots(flurries) while dawson moved after him from time to time conserving most of his energy. This basically plays off of fans cheering at every time pascal swings which not only makes it hard for judges but also got into dawson's head. When pascal did jump in with his flurry he rarely landed the first shot he threw(minus a few straght rights), but was able to knock dawson off balance to land the second, third, forth or how many he had to throw to land one. Also Like I always say "Getting knocked off balance even if you block a shot is never a good look to the judges". This basically took chad off his game as he is the hunted and not the hunter in just about all of his fights. When you chase then you surrender your feet to a fighter moving laterally. The pascal strategy turned an all around boxer like dawson into a 1-2 stalker like tarver, trinadad, or pavlik (though a faster less powerful version).

The strategy is simular to the hopkins strategy for beating 1-2 stalkers and pascal put his own twist on it with explosive flurries.

2nd: Dawson showed his heart out there. I always knew he had more heart than people gave him credit for. He knew where he was at and went out and tried to end it and almost got the KO because pascal was so tired. Bad thing for dawson was that he was just about as tired as pascal.

As for the head butts: I think dawson was very cautious of him running in with his head during the flurries. That pretty much happens all the time when fighters match up and fight in this way. Dawson becoming the 1-2 stalker and pascal moving around and darting in, pushing dawson off balance with his body and punches, always makes for head butts when the stalker holds his ground. I think dawson didn't receive many or any significant headbutts to prior to the last one that stopped the fight.

As for the fight stoppage, I thought it was garbage and I can't remember any fight being stopped right at the time of the head butt/cutt. I thought it should have been dawson's choice to continue. Seeing that he didn't argue I guess he was content with the stoppage. These guys were exhausted.


Great fight and can't wait for the rematch. AND yes I have dawson in the rematch

 

I used to think Pascal was a lil ***** after all that trash talk with Edison Miranda, then deceided not to fight him after the Miranda/Banks fight.

But Pascal has proven me wrong, he fears no one and is a very good fighter.