Comments Thread For: Chad Dawson Still Believes "Hopkins Wanted To Quit!"

[BigAlexSand]

lol...there is a big, big difference, between fmj, jones, manny pac, marquez, etc., and bernard hopkins...all of those guys started off boxing at one weight, dominated that weight, then moved up to seek bigger men, and bigger challenges...hopkins on the other hand, started out at 175, lost, and scaled down to 160 over a 2-year period, to beat up on smaller men in a weak middleweight divison, and rack up 20 title defenses, against the most unidentifiable assemblage of weak middleweights in boxing history, outside of blown up welterweights oscar de la hoya, felix trinidad, and simon brown...only thing he's done in 20 years, is manage to con his way into the boxing history books, while inventing dirty tactics, and fake injuries....real hof/atg stuff there...any time this fool, fought an equally sized, equally talented fighter (prime roy, taylor, calzaghe) he lost...there is a legit reason, why hopkins has ducked chad dawson for years, is because dawson is equally sized, equally talented, isn't interested in hanging on movie sets with stallone, and isn't going to tolerate the garbage fighting, that hopkins gets off, on every two divisions smaller, lesser talented fighter...dawson, had hopkins speechless, at the press conference, hopefully he leaves, all 20 of hopkins fans speechless, after april 28th

Wait so because he dropped 15 pounds and did fight smaller guys like Hearns (6'1") who first title was at welterweight, like currently Sturm is a half inch from 6 foot, Chavez Jr. Who is over 6 foot, Roy Jones who is 5'11" faught at light middle, And sugar Ray leonard figthing at 5'10" in the welterweight division and many more. Might as well say Hearns was fighting more unequal opponents than hopkins, like Roy Jones, and Leonard who should have faught at middle for a title in the first place, Holyfield should have faught at heavyweight being 6'3" and James Toney should have started middle, super middle weight. And a non-talented middle weight class, your talking about Roy Jones, James Toney and a few others. The same people have criticized Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Mike Tyson, Jack Dempsey and many others who took over a weight class then later said they're competition wasn't good enough. But then again those guys faught differently than Hopkins, so they HOF status is okay!

[-Spinal-]

Wow, never seen those stats before.

Dawson didn't look like he outlanded Pascal to me.

Yeah, to me neither.

But that's cause Pascal was the more effective boxer, he was in control for the most part.


That's why Hopkins numbers in the Dawson fight don't matter, he was not effective, looked scared, and like he wanted out. Most of his punches looked more like him trying to ward off Dawson rather than actually fighting him, and a lot of holding too in such few rounds, from Hopkins himself. Looked scared to death.

[Illdil]

Wait so because he dropped 15 pounds and did fight smaller guys like Hearns (6'1") who first title was at welterweight, like currently Sturm is a half inch from 6 foot, Chavez Jr. Who is over 6 foot, Roy Jones who is 5'11" faught at light middle, And sugar Ray leonard figthing at 5'10" in the welterweight division and many more. Might as well say Hearns was fighting more unequal opponents than hopkins, like Roy Jones, and Leonard who should have faught at middle for a title in the first place, Holyfield should have faught at heavyweight being 6'3" and James Toney should have started middle, super middle weight. And a non-talented middle weight class, your talking about Roy Jones, James Toney and a few others. The same people have criticized Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Mike Tyson, Jack Dempsey and many others who took over a weight class then later said they're competition wasn't good enough. But then again those guys faught differently than Hopkins, so they HOF status is okay!

Great Post!

[Juof]

if hopkins didnt want to be there and quit why the **** would there be a rematch then, dawsons one ****** mother****er

[I Love Jesus!]

dawson is a ******. hes delusional and has no common sense. hes in for a tough life when his career is over.

[Boxingwizard]

He was controlling the action more than Dawson. The numbers don't lie. Dawson was missing. He was flailing.

Irrelevant anyway... even if it was "neutral" at that point, what you're trying to say is that Hopkins, who got up off the canvas several times in the early rounds against Pascal, felt a bit uncomfortable so decided to quit.

Are you kidding me? Don't you think he would have found a way to quit against a guy who WAS landing HARD punches and KNOCKING HIM DOWN???

Where is the logic? Where is the common sense? If you think Hopkins quit, you're either so biased that you can't see the forest for the trees, or just plain ignorant. Either position is not one to be proud of.

The only way Hopkins was going to win that fight was to grind it out to a decision, and he was not going to take that chance. Hopkins took a similar dive against Robert Allen in the first fight, who he was also having trouble with. Eventually I think Dawson would have beaten Hopkins badly had the fight continued, and Hopkins knew it. It was two rounds, it was a feeling out round, but Hopkins was BACKING up the whole night. It's better explained in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eIdlq8IIZk

[punchville]

thats what i belive too plain and simple.. that body slam was weak as fu ck

[Paclan]

If he wanted to quit why the hell did he take a rematch?

dawson's a moron lol

[Boxingwizard]

if hopkins didnt want to be there and quit why the **** would there be a rematch then, dawsons one ****** mother****er

Hopkins is known to fake being in pain. He certainly faked being in pain against Roy Jones and Calzaghe. I doubt Hopkins was in serious against Dawson that he couldn't continue. It was jut an opportunity for Hopkins to reevaluate the match and come up with a different strategy the next time.

But I'm confident Dawson has Hopkins figured out, it doesn't matter what Hopkins does.

[Boxingwizard]

If he wanted to quit why the hell did he take a rematch?

Yeah boxing fans should be happy there is rematch and this will finally (hopefully) be settled. Dawson should just forget about the past, what's done is done. But part of it is Dawson talking.