Hopkins vs Dawson, who you picking?

[slicksouthpaw16]

Dawson does have a good workrate but does appear to lose focus on the gameplan and likes to take few rounds off in fights which would favor Hopkins big time. If you give Hopkins oppurtunities to rest you are decreasing your chances of winning. Calzaghe beat Hopkins with non stop pressure and punching. I doubt Dawson could do what Joe did to Hopkins.

Honestly Dawson could do a much better job then Calzaghe did. We are talking about a harder punching southpaw, naturally bigger, taller, stronger and IMO faster as well because i include power with speed. Dawson has the kind of timing jab that Taylor had that troubled Hopkins in their first fight and hes also faster then Hopkins. Hopkins has looked his best against more limited opponents. Dawson is the kind of fighter with more then one way of winning and he posses that Taylor/Calzaghe/Oscar kind of problem because of it. Hopkins just always had problems against fighters that were faster then him.

Dawson let Tarver rest because he knew that Tarver would tire himself out by punching on his gloves. With Hopkins, he would take a more different approach. If he does not let the inside tricks throw him out of his game, then Hopkins will be in big trouble. I could even see this fight ended in a DQ from Hopkins holding too much to avoid punishment. Dawson is too big to try to fight on the inside if you're Hopkins.

[Motofan]

Hopkins wide UD. Dawson has not impressed me at all so far. If Glen Johnson can take him to school so can Hopkins.

[Jean28]

Bhop UD. Probably an easy decision.

[ELMOYS]

i know chad was not 100% impressive the other night but i still think his speed can give hopkins a lot of trouble. If he has sufficient stamina to maintain a high activity level i think he could potentially edge a decision from hopkins.

Having said that if they do fight i would probably pick bernard by close decision.

chads speed and compinations are very fkn good, his weaving and jivin off punches thrown is also to consider i mean tarver thrw from all angels and landed umm not so many ,,,, b hop at his age he stilll brings it to the ring ,, good fight to watch i see bad chad winning spilt decision,, ohh btw ,, when a fighter has in his mind that a punch cant hurt him, it hard to knock him out, it was said that chad had a ? Chin ,, taver hit him with some good ones knock out ones he did not do damage ..