Glen Johnson's rant

[LondonBB]

Cutmemick, ive had a look at my post after you responded and i feel you made worthy arguments, infact i see what your saying totally and agree.

My initial post was tbh out of frustration i guess.

What im annoyed with is the way i see guys get bigged and hyped up when they are not experienced enough nor do they have the real quality to be considered great champs.

Examples of this are lacy and dawson and dare i say it, it seems kessler might be one of those guys to

Although i think kessler will come to fruit, albeit im annoyed that hes ducked miranda. There is no doubt dawson is a good boxer, infact hes a very good boxer. You are right, the fight with johnson was very even, it could have gone both ways, the 16,12 scorecard was a joke though, thats what im annoyed about.

I could see it going a round to johnson or dawson, but johnson seemed the stronger of the two fighters and definately did the most damage, without really taking any punishment.

This is the problem i feel with the 12 round system, the way it is scored round by round does not give justice or reflect the nature of the fight.

For instance a fighter can draw 8 rounds, but the judges are so reluctant to give drawn rounds that they might give it to that fighter because he is the home favourite...then for 4 of the remaining rounds that fighter could get totally whipped, put on the floor twice and just stagger through till the end...yet the fighter who managed to 'win' the drawn rounds (because the judges v seldom give drawn rounds even if it is an extremely close round) will end up winning the fight despite being battered all over the place.

So in this fight i thought you had some drawn rounds, they obviously gave these rounds to dawson. You also had johnson totally dominate dawson in 3 of the rounds...this leads me to give the fight a draw or a win to johnson by 1 round.

Anyway, i guess im being too hard on chad, he went the distance and shows he has good skills against a very tough opponent. It doesnt matter who they give it to i guess, the true winner is the person who the crowd and audience believe is the better fighter. Id have to say that i think johnson is a better fighter than dawson from what i saw tbh.

Hopkins or calzaghe on dawson and i cant see dawson having much of a chance though.

This fight has made me see though that hopkins is a cut above the other light heavies out there tbh. If calzaghe beats hopkins then i presume hopkins will retire.

So aside from jones and pavlik, calzaghe (if he beats hopkins) could also fight tarver and dawson.

I just cant see dawson being given a match up against calzaghe with that performance against johnson though. Tarver dominated against woods and showed he is still a class fighter, although he was shown up by bhop...which makes me think that if calzaghe is as good at light heavy as he is at super middle and he beats hopkins, then is there really any point in fighting the winner of tarver vs dawson (most probably tarver i think) seeing as bhop already cast tarver aside? Meaning a calzaghe vs pavlik fight is the only forseeable and credible fight left for calzaghe if he beats bhop. Then maybe a last matchup against roy jones, i think this would be interesting afterall its the matchup that shouldve happened 8 or so years back but never happened. Id like to watch that personally, although i think calzaghe would win and jones is not at his peak, it would still be good for old times sake. To finally get to see probably the two greatest boxers of the middle/supermiddle/light heavy divisions of the last 20 years against each other in their last fights...it would be a fitting end to both calzaghe and jones' careers regardless of the outcome.

[BoxingGorilla]

I thought Glen Johnson's speech was touching and I want to have sex with Karen Bryant.

Still, he didn't win the fight although he came damn close to doing so.

[amat]

If anyone has earned that rant it is Glen Johnson, and he kept it real with the "pay the bills" line. He definitely looks like he could keep going for a while more in the sport though, looked fantastic.

But honestly, he got unquestionably robbed against Woods twice (imo), Julio Gonzalez and Omar Sheika. I haven't seen the other ones but it wouldn't be hard to believe he's been robbed in more. He may not have won the fight but he won 5 rounds as an absolute, unquestionable bare minimum. There is no possible way he lost the fight by 4 rounds. What were the judges doing during that last dominant Johnson round? I feel bad, it was a close fight. I scored it a draw.

[Unknowndonor]

I can see where Johnson was coming from, and I wanted to see a draw, but wasn't disappointed with a 1 point win for Dawson(4 points was ridiculous).

Although, as far as 10-point must scoring system, yes Dawson won, but Johnson whipped his azz, IMO. If the fight was judged on who would want to fight 5 more rounds, Johnson would be the winner in my eyes.

[Mar]

...johnson should know by now that he can't afford to leave any fight in the hands of the judges.

[Pugilistic]

johnson deserved the win, the judges scorecards were pathetic

[Master]

I scored it a draw 6 rounds each, it was not a robbery and in Dawsons backyard and him being champion it was always going to go with him

[Mar]

Some calling a hometown decision when johnson lives in florida......the scoring was riddiculous but i was comfortable that they said dawson won, if they would have said he lost i would feel the same way. I think he still would whoop tarver though.