Quote Originally Posted by Beanflicker View Post
I really wanted Johnson to win but I had it 7 rounds to 5 for Dawson. Tough break for one of boxing's classiest, toughest, hardest working personalities.

Johnson's post fight reaction was touching. Poor guy has been on the wrong side of too many close/bad decisions.
Yeah, I totally sympathise with Johnson coming close yet again, but he's been a world title holder before, and although he's come close so often, and taken bad decisions more than once, you have to judge each fight on its merit, and Johnson didn't do enough to emphatically take the title for me, so I don't deny Dawson hanging on to his title.