Why did Chad Dawson fought Andre Ward at 168?

[RomanReigns2]

Dawson was clearly dehydrated at 168. it would have been a competitive fight if they fought at 175. Ward still gets the victory,.

Ward is mentally tough by the way

[hhh1200]

Ward reminds of Shakar (stance or Shakar gets his stance from working with Ward) and Hopkins (grimey)

[Roadblock]

Because he thought he could make 168, the trouble is and its a trap is they only think they can they don't actually go down to the weight to see. Oscar did the same thing with Manny and it was a massive fck up just as Chads was, if they did a quick 4-week trial and actually hit the scales at the weight they would know they don't feel right, LaLonde was another.

[MusoMeanderings]

Because he dared to be great.

Unfortunately, he did it in the most ****** way: dehydrated against a P4P guy. Maybe, he needed money.

He seems to be the kinda guy who sacrifices himself for people's amusement. Remember the pimp? Chad let himself be KO'd in 1 just for the hell of it.

[Bret_Hart]

Because he dared to be great.

Unfortunately, he did it in the most ****** way: dehydrated against a P4P guy. Maybe, he needed money.

He seems to be the kinda guy who sacrifices himself for people's amusement. Remember the pimp? Chad let himself be KO'd in 1 just for the hell of it.

Dawson is a talented guy, but made some ****** decisions in his boxing career.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

John Scully kindly offered me some insight on this. Dawson was listening to the wrong people essentially. His strength and conditioning coach told Chad that he could make 168 easily. John and other members of the team were against the idea from the start.

[tritium_arma]

Dawson is a talented guy, but made some ****** decisions in his boxing career.

Also some questionable ones in his personal one. Who names their kid World Champion?

[Roadblock]

John Scully kindly offered me some insight on this. Dawson was listening to the wrong people essentially. His strength and conditioning coach told Chad that he could make 168 easily. John and other members of the team were against the idea from the start.

Thats why you gotta make the weight first, for some ****** reason they don't they only think they can based on how they made weight before, you cant guess to got to do it.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Thats why you gotta make the weight first, for some ****** reason they don't they only think they can based on how they made weight before, you cant guess to got to do it.

Yeah Chad was making 168 very early in his career. It’s completely different doing it after you’ve grown, developed muscle mass etc.

Going back down in weight is generally never a good idea in boxing. 9 times out of 10 it seems to end disastrously.

[Thuglife Nelo]

Dawson was clearly dehydrated at 168. it would have been a competitive fight if they fought at 175. Ward still gets the victory,.

Ward is mentally tough by the way

Chad Dawson said he could make the weight just like Bivol. But I realize boxing is all racially motivated which is why many hate on the Mexican Canelo cause of his white skin complexion. Notice fans says Dawson dared to be great, even with a Hopkins win as an accolade, no catchweight narrative for Ward vs Dawson. Yet Canelo isn’t dared to be great having fought Bivol directly at 175. How does that work? Bivol was already clamoring to fight Smith at 168 before Canelo beat Smith. Bivol still insisted to want 168 after Canelo beat Plant. These were actual Boxingscene articles that I bumped recently. Yet fans don’t like to instigate it because it would exempt Canelo and they prefer any other narratives but that.

Bhop made concessions for DLH. Ward didn’t dare to be great by wanting the man who beat Hopkins. 8lbs is a lot and fans don’t want to acknowledge it, though some do as posters in the thread say Dawson was drained.

it just scares Canelo haters the thought of Bivol fighting Canelo at 168. Even Bivol recently is reneging the 168 narrative because he got the Canelo payday. Fans don’t want to accept that Bivol was willing to hinder his performance like Dawson for the Canelo payday. Canelo gets no credit for going to 175. Had Canelo had management like Floyd they would’ve used Bivols call for a 168 fight because “he said it.”