Joe Calzaghe, Bernard Hopkins, and Chad Dawson are like peas in a pod.

Along with their fans. I'm not saying that all of their fans are bad posters. But they all make excuses of why these guys shouldn't fight the most dangerous fighters out there. We've been over Calzaghe a million times and I don't really feel like talking about him since he's retired. First off, Hopkins is getting ready to take a fight with a a shot ass Roy Jones and most of his hardcore fans at least somewhat defend him of not giving Chad Dawson the shot at him he deserves. That's not right. Swithcing gears I have never came across one Chad Dawson fan that calls him out on taking a whole nine months off waiting on an injured fighter to heel to fight him and they constantly defend him for it like 2501. He says that Pascal is a better fighter than Cloud. I strongly disagree. Of course there's a slight possibility that he is since Cloud and Pascal have never fought head to head before. But if you analyze each guy's performance against the best fighters they've fought you will see that Cloud has out performed Pascal by miles. What do Froch, Diacanu, Gonzales, and Woods all have in common. They are tough iron-chinned pressure fighters with Diacanu being the most questionably chinned fighter because the only puncher he's ever beaten is Rico Hoye. What's Pascal's record against Froch and Diacanu? Well, he lost to Froch at a lower weight class than 175 and had to go to war with Diacanu to beat by him decision him in two fights. Cloud on the other hand was the first guy to TKO Gonzales and he came really close to knocking Woods' head off his shoulders with that hook in the 7th or 8th round (don't remember which one it was). Now Woods is a respected veteran who has fought good fighters like a prime Roy Jones, a prime Gonzales and Glen Johnson. Who has Diacanu fought? And yet these posters like 2501 claim that Pascal is a better win on Dawson's resume when it's Cloud who has the higher KO percentage along with being undefeated. These Dawson apologists don't want to admit that Chad is taking the path of least resistance by taking on Pascal instead of Cloud. What do Dawson, Hopkins, and Calzaghe all have in common? They all have fans who are apologetic to them, they have boring styles, and they either retire (Calzaghe is the only one to do that) or take long layoffs and don't give fans the fights they want to see against their most dangerous challenger (except for when Dawson fought Johnson both times, though when the rematch happened after a lot of people including myself thought he lost the first fight, Johnson's legs were too old to be able to cut a big ring off on Dawson to make a difference). Now the thing that Tavoris Cloud has in common sadly with those other guys is he too fights very infrequently. But he was Dawson's mandatory for over a year so do you blame him all that much for sitting out a whole year thinking maybe there was a possibility that he might have gotten a shot at Dawson? Hopefully since Cloud and Johnson have exciting styles they can bring some life into this division. But the only fighter out of the five that has an exciting style and fights frequently against anyone, anywhere is the Road Warrior, Glen Johnson. The problem with Calzaghe, Hopkins, and Dawson is they don't have the courage to match their talent. That is all.