By Dave Lahr: It’s looking really bad for WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (25-1, 16 KO’s) in his fight with Chad Dawson (29-0, 17 KO’s) tonight at the Bell Centre, in Monteal, Canada. I knew that Dawson was the taller fighter at 6’1″ compared to the 5’11” Pascal, but I didn’t realize how short Pascal’s reach is. It’s only 67″ compared to 76″ for Dawson. Little 5’6″ Manny Pacquiao has a reach of 67″ and he’s five inches shorter than Pascal. Man, this is going to be like child’s play for Dawson to win this fight.
Pascal, with his short alligator arms, is going to be getting picked apart all night long by Dawson with his much longer reach. I just wonder how Pascal was ever able to win the WBC title in the first place with a limited reach like that. I know Pascal fast hands, but how does the guy make up for having short arms like that?
I’ve seen a number of Pascal’s fights, enough to know that he’s terribly limited in terms of boxing skills. He is fast, though. He’s kind of like the Canadian version of Roy Jones Jr., but I’m talking about a watered down version of Jones, not the prime Jones. I think Dawson is going to be laying into Pascal from the get go with 1-2 combinations to the head.
I don’t expect much body work from Dawson, although he can throw well to the body when wants to. With his reach, he’s just going to be hitting without getting hit back. This won’t even be fair after awhile. I think the referee better be ready to step in at some point to save Pascal from taking a beating.
I just hope he doesn’t give Pascal a long count if he gets dropped a couple of times, because he won’t be doing him any favors by saving him from a knockout. It’s better just to let the fight be stopped once Pascal kisses the canvas. He won’t be landing anything, so the referee needs to be merciful and stop the massacre.
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