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The Boxing Bulletin welcomes Anthony Wilson to the team.  Formerly of The Rumble, Anthony will be taking over the weekly One More Round column - so check back in every Wednesday for his take on all the latest boxing stories.

Chad Dawson lost his light heavyweight crown and his 0 to Jean Pascal on Saturday in Montreal. Fighting with little sense of urgency most of the night, even as his opponent built up a rather obvious lead, Dawson had finally turned it on to an extent in the eleventh round before an accidental headbutt from Pascal opened up a bad cut over his right eye. When the ring doctor examined the gash and ruled that Dawson could not continue the bout was stopped and went to the scorecards. Dawson, behind on all three judges’ cards, suffered a technical decision loss.

I worry that Dawson has a little too much of basketball player Vince Carter in him, in that they are both successful, supremely gifted athletes who seem to treat what they do for a living as just that: what they do for a living, and not much else. Just jobs; jobs that they happen to be extremely adept at, elite practitioners of, but still, just jobs. How much does it really matter to them?

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Mark Lyons is back with this week's edition of One More Round.

This continues to be a slow summer, but at least we have an interesting Super-Six second round match-up between Andre Ward and Allan Green to look forward to this weekend.  I also didn't get a chance to comment last week on Miguel Cotto's win over Yuri Foreman, and the controversy surrounding referee Arthur Mercante Jr.'s decision to overrule the corner, so I'll be touching on that as well this week.

This week's match-up...

Andre Ward won over the world with his dominant win over Mikkel Kessler. I can't lie, it was very impressive and even those of us who picked Ward going in did not envision that type of landslide win. On the other hand, Allan Green has turned off boxing fans all over the world with his lack of desire to make fights against top opposition. I can't argue with the consensus on any of that. I'll just revert to the old cliché that styles make fights.

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Mark Lyons is back with this week's edition of One More Round.

I'm afraid that I didn't see any boxing last week.  I passed on Vitali Klitschko's defense against another no-hoper and while I am intrigued by Wilfredo Vazquez Jr., I chose to order the UFC grudge match instead.  That one happened to fizzle in front of a hyped Vegas crowd, but it looked like the better bet for my money ahead of time.

This week I'll be taking a look at the return of Miguel Cotto against Yuri Foreman and the intriguing undercard prospects match-up between Vanes Martirosyan and Joe Greene.  I also have another dream fight that was requested by Stan - Jack Dempsey vs Mike Tyson!

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Mark Lyons is back with this week's edition of One More Round.

Last week, we saw Rafael Marquez top Israel Vazquez in a bout that hopefully marks the end of one of boxing's greatest rivalries - and on the same show, the beginning of what could well be another multi-fight series as Yonnhy Perez and Abner Mares duelled it out in a hard fought twelve round draw.  Since this weekend's a slow one, and I don't care to delve into Vitali Klitschko "gimme" title defense, I thought I would mix things up a bit and use the Title Bout simulator to give us a taste of the fight we're all waiting for, but might never see, Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao.

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Mark Lyons is back with this week's edition of One More Round.

Last weekend brought a pedestrian double header from HBO, as neither Khan/Malignaggi or Ortiz/Campbell delivered much excitement.  Thankfully Saturday wasn't totally underwhelming, as there was also a thrilling performance, that coming from the always entertaining Michael Katsidis in a 3 round blitzing of Kevin Mitchell.

This week we take a trip back in time to when sometimes a trilogy just wasn't enough and the term undercard didn't stand for prospect working the heavy bag. I know that many fight fans have feelings of trepidation heading into Israel Vazquez vs Rafael Marquez IV this weekend. You will not be hearing from one of them in this column, as I can't wait to see these two warriors go at it again!

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Mark Lyons checks in with this week's edition of One More Round.

This past Saturday, we saw a terrific fight from Japan between Hugo Cazares and Nobuo Nashiro, followed by Kermit Cintron demonstrating the proper tuck and roll method for jumping out of a burning building. I can’t say the prospects of a Paulie Malignaggi fight headlining an HBO card have me overly excited for this weekend, but Katisids/Mitchell & Ortiz/Campbell are very interesting and at least Kermit Cintron isn’t on the card.

This past weekend's action...

As you can tell by the intro, I’m of the opinion than Cintron dove out of the ring of his own volition. The editors of this site disagree with me, but I honestly don’t think there is an option B, it was plain as day in my opinion.

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Mark Lyons returns with this week's edition of One More Round.

I'm back again after finally getting my computer issues resolved.  In this edition of OMR, I'll of course be sharing my thoughts on this past Saturday's dominant win by Floyd Mayweather over Shane Mosley.  Since I was unable to comment last week on Kessler/Froch and Adamek/Arreola, I'll also be touching on those fights as well.  Plus, I'll be looking ahead to this weekend's big fight between Paul Williams and Kermit Cintron.

This past weekend's action...

Going into Saturday night, I had high hopes for Shane Mosley. The age, layoff and style issues aside, I still thought he could pull it off. And I can't lie to you, in the second round my head hit the ceiling. That was quickly followed by the realization that Floyd Mayweather is as tough as they come. It was a question that everyone wanted answered and Shane provided the hardest question that could be posed. Floyd answered it with bravado and brilliance all at once.

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Mark Lyons is back with this week's edition of One More Round.  If you've been missing Mark's Top 100 Punchers Series, fear not as new instalments of the countdown are on the way.

It's been a while since my last edition of One More Round.  It was a slow first quarter for fights, but the main reason for my absence has been computer issues that I'm still having.

We had an eventful fight two weekend's ago between Dirrell and Abraham, and something else all together this past Saturday between Jones and Hopkins. Plus a few fights coming up this week, and I also want to offer some brief opinions on fights such as Pacquiao/Clottey that I didn't get a chance to write about over the first few months of the year.

There also was a stirring Intervention on A & E involving Rocky Lockridge who was one of my favorites growing up

It's been awhile, so let's get down to business...

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