Yeah this is what I thought as well - on the clip in a certain angle you can see his expression go from 'wtf I'm being thrown' to 'GAH!!!' - and it coincides with the moment he landed on the elbow. It's pretty much the exact same fall/injury you get when people are thrown backwards and try to reach back with arm extended to break the fall as opposed a proper break fall. Obviously this means Hopkins has been slack on his Judo. Dawson not so much. But yeah man a bad decision by the refs here. This makes Dawson a chump in my book.
Hopkins is never one to fake anything so I pretty much flagged it as legt from the get go. Decision will be appealed and overturned in all likelihood and a rematch arranged which B-Hop will win easily
Yeah he's not known as that type of a fighter or person. . Yeah let's hope so. Chad Dawson was already talking about he doesn't want a rematch because according to him and Winky Wright... he came to fought once and Bernard Hopkins didn't want any. So silly given B-hops track record. Obviously BS from Dawson's camp. I wonder if there is a contractual obligation. As for the cards at that point of the foul it pretty much squares up with what we know about B-hop... he's never been a early rounds KO puncher... never been his style... so some of the reports coming are defo lopsided and don't seem to understand the history of the fighter. edit: and it's no surprise that Wright is in the mix here talking trash because he got beat by Hopkins - and his big issue was a controversial headbutt... up to that fight Wright had been steamrolling the division. Then a 43 year old B-hop beat him.
Hopkins actually had quite a few early KOs back in the 1990s but now that he's older and doesn't have the youth that he did he has to play it more laid back and get the later round KOs. Hopkins was always more of a technician than a slugger. Though I'm not much of a Hopkins fan, this just makes boxing look really, really bad.
B-hop shoulder It was a lousy call. It should have been called a 'no contest'. The doctor's report supports B-hop's claim & the audio verified the fact that B-hop told the ref he would contnue with one arm. He never said he couldn't continue. The ref took it all on himself to award a TKO to Dawson Thanks, Tom
The WBC reinstated Hopkins as the champ and changed the outcome of the fight to a technical draw. http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/i...title-back-decision-overturned-technical-draw
Niiiice! Will be interesting to see how the commission rules on it. As for a rematch... Hopkins will take some to time to rehab that shoulder.
It's almost like trying to make bets on which medieval fiefdoms or petty kings will come on out on top in the dark ages. Christ almighty... the state of boxing today.
