Merchant "You ARE making excuses."

I usually don't like when fighters say "I take nothing away from him, or make any excuses.. BUT.."

Dawson has himself to blame for not stepping it up. Pascal has shown he has a heart of a champion fighting with one arm or even staying in there when he was hurt and trying to trade.

That was the factor, any other fighter would have probably been knocked out by Dawson tonight. But Dawson had to know he had a different kind of fighter in front of him and should have pressed it like he did. He didn't and he lost, end of story.