Dawson vs Ward on HBO - Saturday night fight thread

[Majesty]

Like I said, when Ward comes out he can change the entire gameplan of another fighter. Like Tyson said everyone has a plan till they get hit, Dawson came out thinking one way and Ward came in and clocked him hard and that changed his mind for the entire fight.

This kid has flown under the radar too long and if you look at his record and the names on it, how he hasn't been in the p4p number 10 discussions is funny. Tonight was his coming out party.

[Majesty]

Like I said, Ward's style is very similar to Hopkins but he has a better jab and if Hopkins style caused Dawson some issues, Ward's was going to devastate him and it did.

That reminds me of the way Hopkins shut down Glen Johnson.

[Mars_ax]

Like I said, Ward's style is very similar to Hopkins but he has a better jab and if Hopkins style caused Dawson some issues, Ward's was going to devastate him and it did.

That reminds me of the way Hopkins shut down Glen Johnson.

I agree with you, Ward does resemble Hopkins, one thing Hop used to do in his younger days that Ward doesn't is go to the body. Hop was a devastating body puncher.

Good call Maj.

[Majesty]

Like I said, Ward's style is very similar to Hopkins but he has a better jab and if Hopkins style caused Dawson some issues, Ward's was going to devastate him and it did.

That reminds me of the way Hopkins shut down Glen Johnson.

I agree with you, Ward does resemble Hopkins, one thing Hop used to do in his younger days that Ward doesn't is go to the body. Hop was a devastating body puncher.

Good call Maj.

Was a fun fight to watch, It's sad I almost forgot it was happening since I was talking to some people that work with Ward about two weekends ago.

The thing is, Hopkins style when he was older is more similar to what Ward does now in his youth. He has an old school kind of style that Hopkins relied on when he was 40 that Ward relies on now with an added jab, it's actually very very smart. Because it works for Hopkins who is 40 to reserve energy and wear out younger guys, Ward IS a younger guy and using it can only benefit him even more, so I had a feeling Dawson would be in a world of hurt especially given Ward hit's harder than people give him credit and Dawson always has a tendency to leave himself open even when in complete control, once Ward found those openings Chad had no escape. Those cracks in his armor that have been apparent since his career began were fully exploited tonight by Ward.

Hopkins saw the same thing in Dawson just didn't have the tank to take care of it(though I do feel that it would have happened on the night when Hopkins and Dawson FIRST fought when Hopkins winded him with that body punch) but by the second fight, that time out of the gym and rehab obviously effected Hopkins effectiveness. So I knew it wasn't meant to be there. But when Dawson said "I wanna fight Andre Ward" I knew that was it

[Mars_ax]

I guess all the credit needs to go to Ward, who would have thought he'd knock Dawson down 3 times and stop him in a later round. Nobody has come close to dominating Dawson like that.

Having said that and not to take anything away from Ward's brilliant performance, but Dawson looked pathetic in there tonight.

[mrbig1]

Ward kicked Dawson ass tonight. Ward has to be #2 p4p.