after their fights it would be a great match up dawson could prove himself instead of fighting same people, personally i think hopkins is overrated and dawson could beat him.
whats your verdict?
This is obviously the best fight possible at 175 although you can't blame B-Hop for not jumping at it at the age of 44. He just beat one P4P top ten guy who was young enough to be his kid, now people expect him to do it again. I think B-Hop should retire now, there is no way he could possibly go out any better than with his last fight being the beating he handed to Kelly.
Thanks you too have a good taste in fave boxers, we have the same faves. Hopkins is one of my top 3 all-time faves but i woould be lying to myself if i say Hopkins can beat Dawson. It's not about youth here, Pavlik belongs at Middleweight for now and Dawson is a natural Light heavyweight, that would be the difference. Dawson won't be no sluggish sitting duck like Pavlik was, He will be throwing blinding fast *combinations* not jab, jab, right(like Pavlik)
yeah but pavlik has a good chin, although taylor knocked him down, he would loose to dawson though he couldnt handle dawson
Dawson wins more clearly than Taylor and Calzaghe combined. He just does things and has tools they don't.
yeah i thought it was a bit strange, it would be close, b-hop beat pavlik and i know this dont make no difference but taylor lost to pavlik but beat hopkins.
would be a UD dawson
Hopkins is lying to himself. He came nowhere close to destroying Taylor how is he going to beat Dawson easily. He even says himself when asked about this match..styles make fights.
are you saying you dont think chad would win
"I don't want to ruin another 26 yr olds' carreer, I could be promoting these guys some where in the future, why would I wanna keep taking their 0's away? that's bad business" the words were not exactly like that but it was somewhat like that.
you have a good taste in favourite boxers :)
i can see where hopkins is coming from but i dont know if he would win
Hopkins is lying to himself. He came nowhere close to destroying Taylor how is he going to beat Dawson easily. He even says himself when asked about this match..styles make fights.
he said dawson was a young american star and he didnt wanna ruin him which translates to-i dont wanna fight a young black boxer
yeah fair enough but he thinks he could beat him, if he didnt beat him it wouldnt ruin chad its more likely to ruin himself
I would rather see Hopkins/Dawson instead of Hopkins/Adamek, i've said that from the start. Now that it looks like Hopkins/Adamek isn't going to happen. Would like to see Hopkins and Dawson fight assuming Dawson gets past Tarver for a second time which i think he will.
If the fight does happen, i would predict a Hopkins win unless he has aged overnight and lost alot of his timing etc but i dout it. But Dawson would be a hard fight for anyone one around his weight class at the moment. He's very talented and skilfull, has speed, a decent defence and picks his shots and great and has nice timing and a good chin and most of all is a hungrey fighter.
The only problem i see, is if Hopkins does beat Dawson with ease, alot of people(boxing fans) would moan that Hopkins has beat another young fighter, and that fighter could lose momentum, and it could effect him mentalliy, and that young fighter will help boxing in the future and continue to carry it big PPVS buys and mainstream. Lou Dibella was talking about this the other day i read somewere, saying how Hopkins is ruining starts of the future etc Pavlik. And that could effect boxing in the future.
It would bother me but i know it would bother alot of people in boxing etc.
I think Dawson can beat him, I just don't think it's worth it. Hopkins is so crafty and knows all the tricks. Hopkins knows how to make you look bad and I'm not sure if Dawson is ready for that just yet. Hopkins should be fighting Glenn Johnson in IMO, it really shouldn't be about money now for BHop. He needs to step up to the plate, Johnson has been calling him out for a longtime and BHop just ignores him.
yeah that would a good fight but i think b-hop would win
I think Dawson can beat him, I just don't think it's worth it. Hopkins is so crafty and knows all the tricks. Hopkins knows how to make you look bad and I'm not sure if Dawson is ready for that just yet. Hopkins should be fighting Glenn Johnson IMO, it really shouldn't be about money now for BHop. He needs to step up to the plate, Johnson has been calling him out for a longtime and BHop just ignores him.
dawson is the over rated one imo he lost to glen johnson 8-4
hes not overrated, he beat adamek, tarver, and johnson but i didnt watch it so i cant say what you say isnt right