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By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport. In a startling upset, Jean Pascal outworked talented Chad Dawson at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on his way to a technical decision victory when Dawson was deemed unable to continue due to a cut suffered in the 11th round. Final scores of the abbreviated fight were 108-101, 160-103, and 106-103. Within a round it became clear that Dawson, now 29-1-0-1 (17), was in for a long night as Pascal alternated between moving on the perimeter and hurling UFOs with abandon while charging. Pascal, Laval, Quebec, via Port-au-Prince, appeared to sweep the first three rounds by using his hit and run tactics to potshot Dawson here and there. His occasional flurries were heightened by the fact that Dawson did little early on but look distressed. Read the rest here...

By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport. After spending the last two years on the Glen Johnson-Antonio Tarver treadmill, Chad Dawson finally meets a fighter who is not eligible for eldercare when he faces Jean Pascal at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, tomorrow night on HBO. Both fighters deserve credit for taking the bout. Pascal because he is a gate attraction in Montreal and could have taken lesser fights for significant paydays; and Dawson for hitting the road in pursuit of a big event. Read the rest here...

by Andrew Harrison (Safe Side Of The Ropes) After a year stained by failed negotiations, missed opportunities and precious little in the way of big fight action, boxing finally gets it right on Saturday evening as light heavyweights "Bad" Chad Dawson and Canadian, Jean Pascal meet to crown a divisional world champion. A battle which pits two ultra talented and dynamic fighters together at their peak (and on the right side of thirty) has all of the ingredients to make for a wonderful, crowd pleasing affair in a year regrettably devoid of such pearls (read more).