Hopkins vs Dawson II

[Complex]

Dawson by UD imo

[steelcityjames]

Re: Hopkins vs Dawson II

boring fight.... extremely unimpressed with dawson even though he won. he just doesn't have the "it" factor. fight was more competitive than it should have been considering his hand speed and nearly 20-year youth advantage. i don't see Dawson beating any top fighters in their prime from 168-175

[Money99]

Re: Hopkins vs Dawson II

Not defending Dawson, but Hopkins could make the 2nd-coming look boring.
It doesn't help when he fights a guy like Dawson who is also boring and only fights in spurts.

Still, Dawson clearly won and I hope this is the end of Hopkins. He had a great career, but he's death to watch. If he found a sport where the only offensive weapons were headbutts and hugging, he'd never get beat.

[Complex]

Re: Hopkins vs Dawson II

Dawson vs Ward may be the only big fight Dawson can get. Same for Ward. Neither is an exciting fighter.

[edaddy]

Re: Hopkins vs Dawson II

Not defending Dawson, but Hopkins could make the 2nd-coming look boring.
It doesn't help when he fights a guy like Dawson who is also boring and only fights in spurts.

Still, Dawson clearly won and I hope this is the end of Hopkins. He had a great career, but he's death to watch. If he found a sport where the only offensive weapons were headbutts and hugging, he'd never get beat.

Agreed terrible fight..The way that Hopkins firght he could fight til he is 55 yrs old..Constant hugging, holding, and one punch potshotting..That referee should have taken points from B-Hop for holding and leading with his head..I was impressed with Dawsons focus this fight as he stuck to his game plan and used his speed and athleticism to beat B-Hop..I do think Dawson was trying to push the issue and fight but Hopkins wanted none of that..How he called it a robbery is beyond me...

[aholbert32]

Re: Hopkins vs Dawson II

Dawson vs Ward may be the only big fight Dawson can get. Same for Ward. Neither is an exciting fighter.

Ward can get Bute if he beats Froch.

[NINJAK2]

Re: Hopkins vs Dawson II

Happy for Dawson but that fight was atrocious to watch..as I figured it would be. These guys' styles just don't make for a good fight. Love B-Hop but boxing is about entertainment not just survival and his style is not entertaining at all at the moment.

[jtdribbles25]

Re: Hopkins vs Dawson II

I didn't find the fight to be as bad as most. Coming in to it you know what it is. I actually found it compelling to see chad get upset and have to retain his composure all while hopkins continued to try and cheat/craft his way to victory. i thought there were several instances in which chad actually looked about as good as you can against b-hop. Trying several times to take a "chance" and mix it up.

[Culture Rot]

Re: Hopkins vs Dawson II

Another bad night for boxing

[edaddy]

Re: Hopkins vs Dawson II

I didn't find the fight to be as bad as most. Coming in to it you know what it is. I actually found it compelling to see chad get upset and have to retain his composure all while hopkins continued to try and cheat/craft his way to victory. i thought there were several instances in which chad actually looked about as good as you can against b-hop. Trying several times to take a "chance" and mix it up.

Agreed, I don,t know why I expected B-Hop to do anything different as far as initiating the action.I thought after the second fight with Pascal he had at least changed his style to become more crowd pleasing and to take more chances, on top of that I thought he would be mad enough at Dawson for calling him out and would try to take it to Dawson..boy was I wrong..he fought like a fighter trying to survive, and protect his leagcy by not getting KO,d..I do agree Dawson tried to initiate the action and he actually did look as good as you can against a B-Hop in strict survival mode. Dawson grew up this fight he kept his focus for 12 rounds and kept hisd anger in check....