Rewatched the fight.

[Boxingwizard]

i understand chad was not havin the leaning going on but he literally grab b-hos leggs and tried to scoop him like a fight in the streets...when u scoop somebody then stomp him out....it should of been a no contest or he should of went to the cards...bad tko call on a scoop slam

Hopkins was exaggerating the pain, he could have continued, but he showed indication that he didn't want to.

[Deevel916]

Did u not see Dawson grab Hops leg? Why grab his leg if he wasnt intentionally trying to throw him down?

[Alx.]

this isnt wrestling bro and you're biased cause you're a dawson fan, so am i but that was a foul and it should be changed to a NC.

[TintaBoricua]

Big Hopkins fan here, neutral on Bad Chad, but what happened is not Chad's fault in the slightest. If i was fighting & someone leaned on me like that, I'd throw him off too. The problem I had was after the fight Chad scoffed at the rematch. But the decision will be reveresed & the rematch will happen anyway. I simply don't understand why Chad thought he won. He didn't land a punch & that obviously wasn't a tko.

This is pretty much how I feel. I don't knock Dawson for it. He was just ducking a right hand, and shrugged Hopkins off of him.

A lot of posters here are looking at this issue as if it were black-and-white. They're either saying Hopkins was a ***** or that Dawson threw him down with the utmost malice.

Man, c'mon! Any person would've probably standed upright as soon as the right hand passed, Hopkins just happened to be on top of Chad and got lifted off his feet.

I disagree with the decision of a TKO and I believe it should be a NC. I don't think ANYBODY wanted this to happen. Not Hopkins, not Dawson, and certainly not the fans who paid with their hard-earned money...

[viewsat]

who cares if it's a foul or not, it should of been a No Contest...

[Warbeast]

my 3 cents:

hopkins has a shoulder problem on his medical history.

both his feet got lifted off the ground so it was hard to control the landing and when he landed his left arm got in contact first absorbing the impact of the fall and got rotated after.

the mri results taken after the match did reveal a true injury.