There is no real logic to assuming Dawson was unable and Lacy was "good." Your support of lacy comes from paper titles not performance. Dawson performed as an elite fighter before he was bested.
But alas the argument here is silly because both guys as said, had real problems. What one cannot do though is elevate the win over Lacy and then say this is better than Ward's win over Dawson.
I don't rate the Dawson win at all. He was completely dead at the weight. I mean he got stopped by Andre bloody Ward. Who the hell gets knocked down repeatedly and stopped by Ward?
Lacy probably would have even KO'd that version of Dawson.
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