Hopkins vs Dawson NO FOUL?!

[outspoken]

At the very least it should of been a NO CONTEST... I'm so outraged that a fighter.. excuse me a champion could lose the belt this way. What are your opinions?

[ElTerribleMorales]

this is by far the leading candidate for ROBBERY OF THE YEAR, it's bullshit and the ref is hands down the worst ref this year...even outdoing the ref for the Agbeko fight, is Dawson really trying to talk about having heart and robbing the fans of a fight? sorry all Dawson did tonight was scrap any respect that i had for him and made himself look like a douche, if he really considers this as a real "win" then he's a fucking joke

[CFH]

It'll get overturned, but that call - while wrong - is 100% due to Hopkins history of faking fouls and making refs look like fools.

[outspoken]

It'll get overturned, but that call - while wrong - is 100% due to Hopkins history of faking fowls and making refs look like fools.

I hope you're right and yes I have to agree with you as well. Like I said if roles were reversed this wouldn't happen most likely. His antics with Calzaghe might have cause him this fight. But this was still blatant robbery. I would of been okay with a no contest and a immediate rematch.. At the very least I hope the wbc issues an immediate rematch if Chad wants to keep those belts.

[CFH]

It'll get overturned, but that call - while wrong - is 100% due to Hopkins history of faking fowls and making refs look like fools.

I hope you're right and yes I have to agree with you as well. Like I said if roles were reversed this wouldn't happen most likely. His antics with Calzaghe might have cause him this fight. But this was still blatant robbery. I would of been okay with a no contest an a immediate rematch.. At the very least I hope the wbc issues an immediate rematch if Chad wants to keep those belts.

It should have been a N/C, and I think it ultimately will be. GBP have too much money and influence to let the result stand. With the obvious bad-blood between the two fighters, the immediate rematch will sell itself.

I didn't see anything in the fight that makes me think that Hopkins would have been looking for a way out. BUT, I wouldn't be all that surprised if Hopkins embellished it. He's smart enough to know that if he's hurt to the point that he can still fight, but likely would be at a big competitive disadvantage, then it's better to have it ruled an N/C.

[Spicoli]

We can't pick and choose which fighters are allowed to be fooked in the ass and which we prefer not to be by refs bringing personal opinion into it rather than calling rules rules and calling it down the middle. You don't lose points for being Bernard or any other fighter last I checked...you shouldn't.

It was a shit call.

[outspoken]

this is by far the leading candidate for ROBBERY OF THE YEAR, it's bullshit and the ref is hands down the worst ref this year...even outdoing the ref for the Agbeko fight, is Dawson really trying to talk about having heart and robbing the fans of a fight? sorry all Dawson did tonight was scrap any respect that i had for him and made himself look like a douche, if he really considers this as a real "win" then he's a fucking joke

Exactly, very well said. I was a big Chad fan and liked the fact that he was a humble down to earth champion. I lost all respect for Chad today. If roles were reversed Chad would be talking about how dirty Hopkins is. I just don't understand how that can be consider a boxing move.. "There was no blow scored to cause a knock down" Chad was very unprofessional after the ruling. The fact that he does not want to rematch Hopkins is even more upsetting.