Quote Originally Posted by Taeth View Post
Wow, did people miss what Cloud was doing against Johnson? Look at the second Dawson fight against Johnson. Dawson is still way faster and way more skilled than Johnson.

I think people are underrating Dawson, and underrating how clever Pascal's tactics were against Chad. It's much tougher to just throw punches than it's said, especially when a guy is moving out of range then exploding in like Jean did. In a kind of similar situation Mosley totally dwindled Margarito's punch output, look at what Bernard did to Pavlik's output. And that being said Chad still landed more punches than Jean at a higher %, and he almost ko'ed Jean before the cut. It was a very close fight that Chad could have won.
Nope I watched both fights twice and very closely. From a judges perspective Dawson, didn't look like he was doing enough to win most of the rounds, remember judges don't have punch stats. Now as for Pascal's tactics, I don't think they were particularly creative or hard to figure out, just back out to the ropes see if Dawson throws then jump out to the right and strike. rinse and repeat. When Dawson would throw combinations Pascal was comfortable enough to just wait them out and then go back to his tactics. Dawson had to be more aggressive than normal because Pascal wouldn't just walk in like all his other opponents AND it was in Pascal's backyard. If you are fighting in someone elses town you have to assume they will win any close rounds. This is all the reality of the situation.

As for Cloud he is still young and needs some work, but he is very strong and pushes the issue, without having a Glen Johnson type push back it's going to be tough for Dawson. He has to be more aggressive than he's used to and I just don't know if he is capable of mentally doing that.