Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs Yaqui Lopez

[Joson]

These guys at their respective peaks, fighting ten, 12, or 15 rounds. Who wins?

My guess is Qawi wins a narrow decision. It could be controversial.

I imagine a very difficult fight to score, as Lopez - standing 6'2" to Dwight's 5'7.5" - would use his massive height and reach advantage to jab from long range. Yaqui would be hard to hit, but Qawi would press the action at all times. I doubt either guy lands many, if any, solid blows.

What do you think?

[scorpio83]

Qawi would chop Lopez down with body shots including his body jab and nailing him with big left hooks and right hands to either taking the decision or stopping him in the late rounds. It goes saying, don't let Qawi's short stature fool you because he terrorized the light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions with his swarming counter attacks.

[Joson]

Qawi would chop Lopez down with body shots including his body jab and nailing him with big left hooks and right hands to either taking the decision or stopping him in the late rounds. It goes saying, don't let Qawi's short stature fool you because he terrorized the light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions with his swarming counter attacks.

Check out Yaqui Lopez vs. Galindez II (1978). You don't think Lopez would have fought similarly against Qawi? I do.

Yaqui would stay far away from Dwight's bombs. Through it all, Lopez would toss that long-range left-jab, falling just a fraction of inch short of target. That's how I see it. Both guys would have an incredibly tough time scoring.

Qawi wins, I agree. But it would be real struggle on the scorecards. It would be a stinker too, because of the lack of action.

[scorpio83]

Qawi would chop Lopez down with body shots including his body jab and nailing him with big left hooks and right hands to either taking the decision or stopping him in the late rounds. It goes saying, don't let Qawi's short stature fool you because he terrorized the light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions with his swarming counter attacks.

Check out Yaqui Lopez vs. Galindez II (1978). You don't think Lopez would have fought similarly against Qawi? I do.

Yaqui would stay far away from Dwight's bombs. Through it all, too, Lopez would toss that long-range left-jab, falling just a fraction of inch short of target. That's how I see. Both guys would have an impossible time scoring.

Qawi wins, I agree. But it would be real struggle, on the scorecards. It would be a stinker too, because of the lack of action.

You have a point right there, but you know that Lopez had the 4 inch reach advantages over Qawi as their reach differences weren't that far. Qawi would work on the body and Lopez to fight for survival rather than landing back at Qawi, who would nail Lopez a lot with jabs and left-right combos to take a decision at best.