Comments Thread For: Dawson: We Plan on Drowning Hopkins on Saturday!

[chavez jr]

I hope Dawson brings his scuba gear.

[gdub27]

As long as Chad doesn't attempt to out box B-Hop he should win. High work-rate is the key to beating Hopkins. Taylor's plan of attack will still work. It worked for Calzaghe it'll work for Chad. Hopkins has problems with hard working superior athletes. I think Roy, Joe and Chad could've been pro's in any sport they put their full attention to. Hopkins isn't a all-around athlete but he is a boxing savant. I haven't seen many fighters with the ability to take away the other fighters best weapon as effectively as Hopkins but I think at his current age athleticism beats him all day.

[djtmal]

GTFOH w/ that nonsense...when have u ever seen winky look that sloppy? Reaching & lunging, pawing tryna find Bernard?? stop it. Winky usually has an air tight defense. Bernard went to work on wink....& did it w/ his legs. Bernard was the bigger man but stayed on the move & attacked on the inside wen opportunites came. Also...the only man that can say he handled bernard truly was RJJ..Calzaghe is known for throwing 100 punches PER ROUND. In their fight Bernard controlled the action so much joe was limited to roughly 600. That's 50% normal output! I suspect he's ready for a similar assault if chad brings it. Bernard & floyd are 2 guys who somehow use defense to make guys abandon their plans to overwhelm them w/ punches. I don't know how but they have that ability to force people into their fight no matter wut. Nobody but RJJ handled bernard hopkins....he was green then & not yet reached his prime. nicetry tho.


Also. Chad may be in a diff mind frame but I can't put stock into any athlete who has to wait on a certain guy to get him motivated. He's said Scully's name far too many times. My question is what happens when something happens they couldn't foresee & scully doesn't have the answer........chad is ****ed.

lol...you were doing ok until the "he was green"

another hopkins excuse maker is born....

[djtmal]

how you gonna drown a dude who swims without getting wet?!?....Chad will come forward and press the action....cool...checkmate, game over.....easy fight...he's not a workrate cat like Calzaghe....if he came to play chess, he makes it close....but by falling for the talk and fighting outta character will make this a cake walk!!!....I can'T wait to go @ my dude dj up there

ok before you get drunk on that, in the back of your head you know he loses to equally talented boxers who he can't frustrate with the dirty tactics...

you my dude, but keep the excuses to a minimum if he loses please...

[Steven Adams]

i thought jones and calzaghe handled him pretty well...

and winky wright got a "lesson" from hopkins? lol...outside of jones and calzaghe, who better to get advice about hopkins from? i saw that fight...it was a close fight that went hopkins way, with the smaller, lethargic looking winky pressing the action all fight, even fought on the inside regularly...with hopkins hugging, headbutting, and using garbage weardown tactics...even with all that, a lot of ppl thought winky should have got the nod....

reading what dawson has to say this close to the fight, i think he is ready to go with the right frame of mind, and the right team behind him for the task....if he does for real, then we finally got a tough, competitive fight involving hopkins...not one of those lame one-sided beatdowns of a smaller man cats like natas202 drools over...

thats why i say hopkins is so overrated by his fans its pathetic

winky walks at 190lbs?

[delpilar]

wow, no boxing.....only swimming!

[djtmal]

wow, no boxing.....only swimming!

mark spitz is one of the judges