Good gravy, Andre Ward is punishing Dawson on the inside. Really great tactical boxing.

Dawson's thinking. Ward's boxing.

Ward seems perfectly content to continue scoring without exposing himself. That's good boxing. Not great television, though.

Yup. Dawson's not nearly as accurate as Ward with his power shots, and I don't get the sense he hits all that hard even when he connects.

Yeah, I also think Ward held himself back there. He's just an instinctively conservative fighter. He's got a choke-hold on the fight right now, anyway.

Here's where we see if Ward can finish. Dawson's a wreck.

Ward was winning that round even before the knockdown. 2-1.

Can't argue with that, even though I don't think Dawson's done much.

Ward setup his right hand a little better that round, but I can't convince myself to give it to either of them.

Neither of them seems to have a sense for timing the other's shots yet. Plus, the inverted-southpaw versus inverted-conventional matchup is making for some really brutally ugly shit so far.

"And, fighting out of the blue corner, the WWJD light heavy light light heavy light heavy bantamlight hefty bag champion, Chewed Dog Food!"

I love that so much. So, so much. Real, genuine love.

I have to pick on what I can hear, since my pirated "stream" is basically a series of still images, ten seconds apart.

Did you know that Chad Dawson is the lightweight champion of the world? Nick Cannon: blowing minds!

Your thoughts on the stoppage? I think the ref could have called it a knockdown, but I also think zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Oh, you'll have plenty of time. I'm sure HBO will find a half-hour of Larry Merchant slurring semi-coherently to fill in some time before the main event.

And now he's... what? A professional cameo? His career consists of being Nick Cannon in various places, so that people can see him and go, "Oh hey look: Nick Cannon!"

What is Nick Cannon's actual job? I feel like he just shows up in stuff and you go, "Oh hey look: Nick Cannon!" But, what do we all recognize him from? Who the hell is he?

In his defense, my pirated stream keeps switching to a stupid Rangers-Rays game.

Klitschko evidently enjoying himself against this side of beef who will go down at some point in the first four rounds.