Re: How/when will andre ward leave dan goossen?
..and I respect your opinion also...
No of course it wasn't all about weight for Dawson. The problem was dawson was already exposed previous to that. Had Dawson been flawless to that point, that victory would have been worth more than it was. Him beating Hopkins on "youth" and the fights against pascal, didn't really spike Dawson's stock the way it should before the fight and the Stevenson ko of Dawson after dropped it even further.
The win over Kessler (people call the butts a factor), and his smothering of Froch in Typical Ward style... are the reason no ones blaming froch for looking for more options rather than avenging that loss. The hemming and hawing over fighting dirrell was also off putting to some fans. His outboxing of artur "wait for the magic punch" abraham was impressive but lost traction because Direll had been doing the same thing before he got krack-a-lacked, and Abraham has slowed and looked like hell afterwards. Credit to ward for doing what he had to do in the tourney (except for the direll issue) but those guys fought ward regardless of style because of their contracts. Now the payoff isn't worth the work.
They want your @$$ beat because upsets make news. News brings about excitement, excitement brings about ratings. The objective is to bring you up to the tower and tear your @$$ down. And if you don't believe that, you're crazy.
Roy Jones, Jr. "What I've Learned," Esquire 2003
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