Daniel Dawson Eye Domestic Brawl With Anthony Mundine

By Chris LaBate

Junior middleweight Daniel Dawson (36-3, 24KOs) returns on July 23 at the WA Italian Club with a regional title on the line. He fights for the Pan Asian Boxing Association interim title against South Africa's Virgil Kalakoda (26-6, 16KOs). Mundine is targeting the WBA "regular" belt at junior middleweight, currently held by Austin Trout, and Dawson is trying to claim the same title. Dawson wants a domestic showdown with Mundine to prove which of them deserves a title shot. 

"Mundine would be the ideal fight for me," Dawson told The Austrlian. "He wants to come down and win a world title at 154-pounds and that's the title I'm chasing. We should meet to find out who's the best in Australia at that weight. That's the match-up I want."