{"id":4161,"date":"2010-08-13T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T04:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2010-08-12T21:49:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T01:49:41","slug":"team-rsr-fight-picks-chad-dawson-vs-jean-pascal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=4161","title":{"rendered":"Team RSR Fight Picks: Chad Dawson Vs Jean Pascal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=4161\" href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=4161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2551\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"team-picks-header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/team-picks-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Compiled by Brian Wilbur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Saturday, arguably the world\u2019s two best light heavyweights will battle for the WBC Light Heavyweight Championship and the vacant Ring Magazine belt. Chad Dawson is the consensus #1 ranked 175 pound fight in the world, yet he will technically come into the fight as the challenger against Jean Pascal. Dawson dumped the IBF belt he won from Antonio Tarver before his November win over Glen Johnson.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pascal won the WBC strap with a 2009 unanimous decision over Adrian Diaconu. The bout will take place at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, giving Pascal the home town advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The team of writers at RSR offer their predictions for this battle of rising young stars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chad Dawson by a tough majority decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chad Dawson by wide unanimous decision.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gary \u201cDigital\u201d Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like Dawson. I think he has enough power to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael \u201cRubber Warrior\u201d Plunkett<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My heart says Pascal, but logic dictates a competitive Chad Dawson wins via closer than expected unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Fleming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I pick Chad Dawson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Wilbur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chad Dawson is getting matched tough here, challenging himself against the best available opposition. Pascal is no push over and is similar to Dawson in many ways. However I have a hard time betting against Dawson vs. anyone at light heavyweight or below. He is young, talented, and on a roll right now. Dawson wins a competitive decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Tally<br \/>\nChad Dawson \u2013 6<br \/>\nJean Pascal \u2013 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compiled by Brian Wilbur This Saturday, arguably the world\u2019s two best light heavyweights will battle for the WBC Light Heavyweight Championship and the vacant Ring Magazine belt. Chad Dawson is the consensus #1 ranked 175 pound fight in the world, yet he will technically come into the fight as the challenger against Jean Pascal. Dawson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,151,1522,1101],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-chad-dawson","tag-fight-predictions","tag-jean-pascal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}