just re-watched pascal dawson and ..

**paulf** · 02-25-2011, 03:30 AM

Oh no doubt, Chad fought like **** most of that fight, but it was just starting to heat up when it was stopped. That's why they're so mad about the Hopkins rematch taking place first: Its no secret that Bhop has avoided Dawson, but taking that strap off Hopkins will be a lot more difficult than taking it off Pascal.

**SCtrojansbaby** · 02-25-2011, 03:57 AM

Dawson has all of the possible traits you could ask for in a fighter he is an A+ level talent the guy just completely lacks any kind of killer instinct. Dawson sleepwalked for 8 rounds against a very good fighter and still "should have" won. Dawson just doesn't know how to go for the kill.

**BOLLOCKS** · 02-25-2011, 03:58 AM

Aye, I thought Chad would have stopped him had it gone on.

**Taranazan** · 02-25-2011, 04:23 AM

Agreed that Dawson didn't fight a good fight and that he'll do better in a rematch, but Pascal barely got hit in the minute before the fight was stopped. He took some good punches in the beginning of the round, then the counter uppercut that froze him, but after that he didn't get hit for a good while. You can hardly say he was about to go.

**Kagami Taiga** · 02-25-2011, 04:24 AM

that was a fight chad should have won. he didnt win it because he didnt want to for whatever reason. its clear he outclasses pascal tho.

**Check** · 02-25-2011, 04:30 AM

Chad should of won and could of won. I actually blame his inactivity for part of the reason why he started late and why he couldn't finish in the end. Outside of the rings issues have caused him to miss out on a lot of things, including becoming a great fighter.

**gigogreco** · 02-25-2011, 04:59 AM

whne he hurt pascal with the peach of an uppercut, i believe it was in the 10 or 11 round, dawson just stood there and did nothing.

i cant claim to to know about any specific problems regarding dawson, his camp, wife, mother or whatever, but that was just so weird.

seriously i cant remember a fighter acting like that, it had nothing to do with lack of killer instinct, a mental blockage or whatever, otherwise he wouldnt be boxing for a living.

i truely believe, there was something that went on, that still hasnt been made public. As said, i have no proof, but just my gut feeling.

**#1Assassin** · 02-25-2011, 05:30 AM

Originally posted by gigogreco

whne he hurt pascal with the peach of an uppercut, i believe it was in the 10 or 11 round, dawson just stood there and did nothing.

i cant claim to to know about any specific problems regarding dawson, his camp, wife, mother or whatever, but that was just so weird.

seriously i cant remember a fighter acting like that, it had nothing to do with lack of killer instinct, a mental blockage or whatever, otherwise he wouldnt be boxing for a living.

i truely believe, there was something that went on, that still hasnt been made public. As said, i have no proof, but just my gut feeling.

acctually there is proof, i think the hbo team were talking about it in the pre fight feature or dawsons ringwalk. apparently he felt everybody including the majority of his family were out for his money.

he moved his wife and kids away from were he had been living and training his whole life. all this supposably caused alot of drama and ppl close to chad said he wasnt prepared to fight mentally and that his head was somewhere else.

chads ex manager gave an interview on it after the fight with pascal, he claimed it was the new ppl in his life convincing chad he couldnt trust anybody. according to him they made chad fire him (the manager) and move away and the manager blamed the loss on that saying chad shouldve stayed put and that he trusted the wrong ppl.

i dont think it excuses his performance though, a fighter needs to be able to block out whatever goes on around him and focus on the task at hand. its not like hes the first athlete to have ppl trying to leech of him. but as long as he learns that lesson from this fight he will be better than ever, you learn more from your losses than u do your wins. i like pascal but he is nowhere near dawson in terms of ability, chad should never have let that guy beat him.

**gigogreco** · 02-25-2011, 05:53 AM

Originally posted by #1Assassin

acctually there is proof, i think the hbo team were talking about it in the pre fight feature or dawsons ringwalk. apparently he felt everybody including the majority of his family were out for his money.

he moved his wife and kids away from were he had been living and training his whole life. all this supposably caused alot of drama and ppl close to chad said he wasnt prepared to fight mentally and that his head was somewhere else.

chads ex manager gave an interview on it after the fight with pascal, he claimed it was the new ppl in his life convincing chad he couldnt trust anybody. according to him they made chad fire him (the manager) and move away and the manager blamed the loss on that saying chad shouldve stayed put and that he trusted the wrong ppl.

i dont think it excuses his performance though, a fighter needs to be able to block out whatever goes on around him and focus on the task at hand. its not like hes the first athlete to have ppl trying to leech of him. but as long as he learns that lesson from this fight he will be better than ever, you learn more from your losses than u do your wins. i like pascal but he is nowhere near dawson in terms of ability, chad should never have let that guy beat him.

good and insightfull p�ost mate.

but still, in the splitsecond, that pascal was an inch away from being knocked out, how the hell could dawson go through a thought process, that would say "hey chad, pascal is seriously rocked,but **** it, ill just do nothing and let him of the hook, because i have some problems"

i�ve seen fighters looking at the ref, urging them to stop the fight out of respect for the other fighters health, but his one, i have never seen before.

has there been any su****ion, about matchfixing.?

just re-watched pascal dawson and ..