What happened to Chad Dawson

[Humean]

He certainly seemed to lose his focus in a pretty bad way, whether that has been the result of brain damage, and/or depression or he has just got bored I have no idea. At his best Dawson was pretty good, not as good as some of the early hype suggested but fairly impressive nevertheless. I personally found him pretty uninteresting to watch though so I'm glad to see the back of him.

[R_Walken]

this is whats wrong with boxing, a big part of it anyways.

people complain about fighters not fighting the best, but when you have a guy who is not only willing but wants to fight the best and is willing to travel and even drop in weight to do so.. he is "a very ****** individual".

chad fought the best and ran out of luck, thats what happened. he started well, beating tomasz adamek in a near shut out before cleaning out the division beating taver and johnson twice each. finishing off with convincingly beating hopkins, something he gets less credit for than kovalev who did it years later to a much older hopkins. calzaghe as well who didnt even beat him convincingly and then ducked a prime chad to fight the corpse of roy jones.

but when you fight everyone things are bound to go against you at times. in his quest for greatness chad conceded too much to get ward in the ring with him, draining himself and losing in a terrible outing. in true chad dawson fashion he picked a deadly puncher as his comeback opponent, a guy nobody wanted to fight at the time. unfortunately he didnt perform in true chad dawson fashion, he got caught cold and stopped. in his next comeback fight he hurt his shoulder and had to fight with one arm, winning the fight in less spectacular fashion than expected. the powers that be capitalized and took the fight from him, making him all but irrelevant.

long story short, chad like most champions had his time and then it passed. you are the one who is ******.

Edit: i left out the pascal loss since its not relevant to his peak or his decline.

Great post

[HanzGruber]

Either way, if Kovalev isn't gonna get Stevenson, I think he should give a title shot to Dawson. He might as well put another former top name on his resume, like he did with Pascal.

He's lost 3 out of last 4 and couldn't even beat tommy karpency whoever the hell that is. Yea he should fight Kov lol

[bojangles1987]

He's lost 3 out of last 4 and couldn't even beat tommy karpency whoever the hell that is. Yea he should fight Kov lol

There were people actually saying that would be a good fight for Kovalev not that long ago. It was crazy.

[creekrat77]

this is whats wrong with boxing, a big part of it anyways.

people complain about fighters not fighting the best, but when you have a guy who is not only willing but wants to fight the best and is willing to travel and even drop in weight to do so.. he is "a very ****** individual".

chad fought the best and ran out of luck, thats what happened. he started well, beating tomasz adamek in a near shut out before cleaning out the division beating taver and johnson twice each. finishing off with convincingly beating hopkins, something he gets less credit for than kovalev who did it years later to a much older hopkins. calzaghe as well who didnt even beat him convincingly and then ducked a prime chad to fight the corpse of roy jones.

but when you fight everyone things are bound to go against you at times. in his quest for greatness chad conceded too much to get ward in the ring with him, draining himself and losing in a terrible outing. in true chad dawson fashion he picked a deadly puncher as his comeback opponent, a guy nobody wanted to fight at the time. unfortunately he didnt perform in true chad dawson fashion, he got caught cold and stopped. in his next comeback fight he hurt his shoulder and had to fight with one arm, winning the fight in less spectacular fashion than expected. the powers that be capitalized and took the fight from him, making him all but irrelevant.

long story short, chad like most champions had his time and then it passed. you are the one who is ******.

Edit: i left out the pascal loss since its not relevant to his peak or his decline.

He's 32 so he isn't ancient. Depends how bad he wants it. Rejuvenating a down and out hall of fame career to be a future title contender is better then the bums Kovalev and Adonis will probably be facing

[sicko]

Dawson was a beast especially when Floyd Sr was training him. Something happened after I want to say after the Adamek fight, seem like he got to the top very top, was a Champion and considered as high as like Top 5 P4P he was extremely high and many was saying he was probably the 2nd Most Talented Fighter in boxing behind Mayweather.

Seems like he struggles a bit mentally and also lacks that Work Ethic. Sad ending to what looked like was going to be a great career. He is only 32 years old so maybe he has 1 more run left in him, but that Light Heavyweight Division is deeper with talent now

[SplitSecond]

His lack of discipline caught up to him. Plus carried too much emotion with him, not to say anything bad about him, I respect him, but it proved to be a hindrance.

[Mooshashi]

IDK how much $$$ he made vs Ward, but was it really necessary to take a fight in which you had to drain the life out of yourself? I understand taking on a challenge, but this was
probably too much of a reach for him. Unless he was in serious debt, his team should have talked him out of this fight.

[New England]

IDK how much $$$ he made vs Ward, but was it really necessary to take a fight in which you had to drain the life out of yourself? I understand taking on a challenge, but this was
probably too much of a reach for him. Unless he was in serious debt, his team should have talked him out of this fight.

$600,000. not chump change, but it certainly wouldn't be a fight they took if they didn't think chad could win and wanted to "cash out."

dawson had toyed with the idea of fighting from 168 to HW. really. i conducted an interview with dawson, and another one with his manager [at the time] mike criscio. both said it was on their radar to get big fights at 168. they also talked about the HW division. the interview was in the lead up to the second fight with glen johnson. dawson's performance in that fight got him on the ring p4p list, iirc.

this was a while abck, and i haven't had media credentials for years.

[Mooshashi]

Well if he netted $200,000 from that fight I suppose it was worth it.
Could get a house somewhere for that amount. Post tax, I mean.