[caneman]

Yea it was! It is easy to type LOL but I was laughing out loud!

[JLUVBABY]

I gotta check this fight out today... i dvr'd the fight last night... fell asleep before it started... lol...

This post has been edited by JLUVBABY: Aug 15 2010, 09:25 AM

[caneman]

I gotta check this fight out today... i dvr'd the fight last night... fell asleep before it started... lol...

I think you will agree with most of us! It was no easy win for Dawson like you were thinking & it could have been if he was really BAD! He has no room to try to mean mug someone....he ain't mean & he ain't that BAD @ this point!

[JLUVBABY]

I think you will agree with most of us! It was no easy win for Dawson like you were thinking & it could have been if he was really BAD! He has no room to try to mean mug someone....he ain't mean & he ain't that BAD @ this point!

ill let you know when i watch it but just listening to my youtube subscriptions and what you guys have said im sure i will be changing my opinion of him.... he may not be great but im sure he'll be back and also hold a belt...

[neophyte7]

Chad DAWSON has an inflated since of how good he is in the ring... his bullshit laid back approach in my view stops him in his tracks and unless he comes with more effort he will go the way of all overrated underachieving pieces of ring shit... I mean this guy has the personality of a deaf mute (no disrespect to the disabled)... The guy does good things in there but clearly his effort is shitty. The guy was fighting as if he was in his hometown and he was ahead. Another thing, I hate it when boxers have their kids with them on entrances... save the "I am good daddy" shit for after the fight. When I saw dawson with is son up there I knew it was not his night. I guess PBF calling this fool the most complete boxer in the sport a few years ago has stifled his growth. Anyone watching last night could see that dawson could have finished that fake ass ROID JONEs last night. Pascal makes so many technical mistakes... He should have been stretched last night. Another thing is also clear... I have never seen a fighter not pay attention to Eddie Mustafa until watching dawson's underacheiving performance last night. He came on great late but he made the fight much harder than it should have been.

[Mean Mister Must...]

One of the worst things out of all this is that Dawson came in talking about a knockout and instead fought like he was scared for most of the fight. He was coming in to the guy's hometown knowing that he would have to work extra hard to clearly win the fight and he didn't do it. Now, I am sympathetic to the difficulties of fighting a fast guy. I know it makes you tentative to throw punches when the guy can counter like a panther, but Pascal was tired from the 6th round on (lunging in, off balance like an amateur can tire a man pretty quick) and he was there to be outworked. It should have been apparent to Dawson what Pascal's game was: Move around the ring for 30-50 seconds, throw a flashy flurry, and repeat. Dawson was not throwing one-two's of going to the body. Pascal is no enigma. Froch beat him pretty much by throwing his jab with intent to hurt and was not afraid to let some right hands go.

If the rematch happens Dawson knows what he has to do to win, but for now he has to marinate in the knowledge that his tentative nature cost him the fight. If he is a great fighter he will go into the rematch with a different gameplan.

As for Pascal; he needs to drop the Roy Jones act ( hard to do at this stage)and work on his conditioning. I've seen about half a dozen of his fights and he fought the exact same way as last night, which is to run, flurry, run, flurry. The only other quality fighter he fought (Carl Froch) didn't let him get away with it and neither should have Dawson.

[Method]

No, Cane, you DONT have to watch it again because there WEREN'T any other headbutts. What's more, the one that caused the cut was mutually accidental, and probably the result of Dawson getting more aggressive. It happens when southpaws fight orthodox opponents.

Chad's post fight interview was terrible, and Larry was all over his ass. I know a lot of the post fight stuff you cant always hold guys responsible, especially when they are green...or are not used to being on the losing end. One minute Dawson is talking about how technically brilliant Pascal's effort was and then the next he bitches about how he was headbutting all night. Truth is, Pascal was far from "technically brilliant". Pascal danced around an oversized ring, and charged like a bull in spurts.

[caneman]

No, Cane, you DONT have to watch it again because there WEREN'T any other headbutts. What's more, the one that caused the cut was mutually accidental, and probably the result of Dawson getting more aggressive. It happens when southpaws fight orthodox opponents.

Chad's post fight interview was terrible, and Larry was all over his ass. I know a lot of the post fight stuff you cant always hold guys responsible, especially when they are green...or are not used to being on the losing end. One minute Dawson is talking about how technically brilliant Pascal's effort was and then the next he bitches about how he was headbutting all night. Truth is, Pascal was far from "technically brilliant". Pascal danced around an oversized ring, and charged like a bull in spurts.

It is kinda amazing there weren't more headbutts, especially with how "not so bad" was bending over @ the waist & went way down! Pascal should have started to time that with an uppercut or whatever cause not so bad was wide open. It is something to see a guy that has talent fight like he did, it was a weak ass performance to say the least...if he came out like he did in the 11th he would have stopped Pascal but if the queen had balls she would be king yo!

[The CEO]

I still can't believe Dawson lost to a Light Heavyweight version of Andre Berto last night...lol

Like MMM said above...Pascal is all about throwing a few explosive, flashy combos and resting...fighting him is a pure boxer's dream...Dawson should have made him look like a fool all night long...but he shit the bed like an invalid instead...

[SENTRAL]

I still can't believe Dawson lost to a Light Heavyweight version of Andre Berto last night...lol

Like MMM said above...Pascal is all about throwing a few explosive, flashy combos and resting...fighting him is a pure boxer's dream...Dawson should have made him look like a fool all night long...but he shit the bed like an invalid instead...

I dont even believe Pascal was at his best last night. He looked heavy. I missed this live but caught the fight via a friend and have just finished watching it. I said beforehand I felt Dawson was overrated and his performance reinforced my belief. He seems to have the tools, the skills but he lacks something. His footwork is poor, he doesnt fight for 3 minutes and this was always going to happen, whether it be Pascal or someone else. Chad is just way too tentative.

He had all the physical advantages yet he failed to use them. A big disappointment for Chad fans especially as a far less gifted boxer in Carl Froch was able to outbox and outslug Pascal at super middleweight.

Still, thats boxing.