How would Dwight Qawi do against...

[BigStereotype]

Bernard Hopkins@ Light Heavyweight
Joe Calzaghe@ Light Heavyweight
Roy Jones@ Light Heavyweight
James Toney@ Cruiserweight

I'd pick Qawi to beat Hopkins and Calzaghe and lose to Toney and Jones. Calzaghe doesn't have anything in his arsenal to keep Qawi off, especially because he wouldn't land at will. Hopkins wouldn't have the output to keep him off, either and Qawi would win an ugly, rough, physical match.

Jones wins because...he's Roy Jones. That's it.
Toney wins because he can beat Qawi on the inside, but that's an exciting, explosive fight a la Jirov.

[bojangles1987]

I'd take Qawi against Hopkins. Too much a bull for a light heavyweight Bernard.

Calzaghe might be able to slap and keep away from Qawi enough to win, not sure about that fight. If pressured I'd go with Qawi.

Roy beats Qawi, 8-4 9-3 type easy decision.

Toney at cruiserweight is a war, I'm taking Toney out of respect for his all around ability.

[BigStereotype]

Toney at cruiserweight is a war, I'm taking Toney out of respect for his all around ability.

This would be an All-time great fight. Kinda like Toney-Barkley, but with Qawi actually getting off and firing back. He also had the defense to not get his ass whipped. Qawi has one of the greatest defenses I've ever seen for a pressure fighter. Against Holyfield, he was slipping five or six punches at a time!

[GoogleMe]

Toney KO's Qawi

[r.burgundy]

i dont think he would do well against any of them.i would give him the best shot against jones given how he struggled with griffin the 1st fight

[sonnyboyx2]

i dont think he would do well against any of them.i would give him the best shot against jones given how he struggled with griffin the 1st fight

lmao... bet you aint ever seen Braxton fight

[NChristo]

This would be an All-time great fight. Kinda like Toney-Barkley, but with Qawi actually getting off and firing back. He also had the defense to not get his ass whipped. Qawi has one of the greatest defenses I've ever seen for a pressure fighter. Against Holyfield, he was slipping five or six punches at a time!

Just watched Qawi - Holyfield I again and at the start of round 6 Qawi avoids 11 or so consecutive punches, definitely one of the best defenses for a pressure type boxer.

[BigStereotype]

Just watched Qawi - Holyfield I again and at the start of round 6 Qawi avoids 11 or so consecutive punches, definitely one of the best defenses for a pressure type boxer.

I always wondered where he got those skills. I don't know TOO much about his background, but wasn't he a thug who started fighting in prison? Fighters like that usually don't get to be defensive masterminds (although B-Hop springs to mind). Did he just have a great trainer? Instincts?

[NChristo]

I always wondered where he got those skills. I don't know TOO much about his background, but wasn't he a thug who started fighting in prison? Fighters like that usually don't get to be defensive masterminds (although B-Hop springs to mind). Did he just have a great trainer? Instincts?

He went to New Jersey Rahway State Prison for 4 years for Armed Robbery, when he got out of prison he went to Joe Fraziers Gym in Philly, no doubt that Frazier would of taught him a few tricks and while he was there he had a lot of sparring sessions with Bennie Briscoe who was training there at the time who was also a somewhat pressure boxer with very good defence, Qawi turned into something of a larger more aggressive version of Briscoe that was better on the inside (imo).

My guess is that his defensive mind comes from instinct, training and mostly all the hours that he sparred with Briscoe that would of rubbed off on him.

(Qawi had only been boxing for a few months when he started sparring with Briscoe and was probably the first professional he fought, he was bound to have picked up / mimicked things off him as he was still learning).

[BigStereotype]

That makes sense. His head movement looks a lot like Fraziers, a rhythmic sort of dive. He does it a lot better, though. Really underrated fighter.