Comments Thread For: Chad Dawson Resumes His Career in Trenton, NJ

[russogd3]

After coWARD made him boil himself into a sultana to make 168 he was never the same.

Ignorance is spewing out of this comment... Dawson is the one who said he'd face anyone from 168-175. After the Hopkins victory he said he wanted Ward at 168.

KELLERMAN: You are now once again the light heavyweight champion of the world. You've gotten rid of all the old fighters in the division but there's some new interesting young fighters here. Any interest you in particular?

DAWSON: I mean I would love a fight with Andre Ward. I mean I think that would make for a great fight.

KELLERMAN: Super middleweight champion.

DAWSON: Super middleweight champion. I could make 168 or we could do it at 175 —a catch weight— it don't matter to me. I wanna make my statement known. I want everybody to know who I am. I wanna go after the big dogs.

[daggum]

I think Ward/Dawson II makes a lot of sense for both fighters... Dawson gets another shot at a top fighter at 175 and a chance to resurrect his career. Ward gets a big name fighter who is of little threat to him to put on his resume at 175. Both could make a good pay check out of it.

it makes zero sense. fans would never watch that. networks would never want that. no one wins.

[robbyheartbaby]

Ignorance is spewing out of this comment... Dawson is the one who said he'd face anyone from 168-175. After the Hopkins victory he said he wanted Ward at 168.

KELLERMAN: You are now once again the light heavyweight champion of the world. You've gotten rid of all the old fighters in the division but there's some new interesting young fighters here. Any interest you in particular?

DAWSON: I mean I would love a fight with Andre Ward. I mean I think that would make for a great fight.

KELLERMAN: Super middleweight champion.

DAWSON: Super middleweight champion. I could make 168 or we could do it at 175 —a catch weight— it don't matter to me. I wanna make my statement known. I want everybody to know who I am. I wanna go after the big dogs.

Hmm ok I stand corrected, Dawson is responsible for his downfall, it wasn't a smart move at all.

[!! Shawn]

TRENTON, NJ - Former world champion champion "Bad" Chad Dawson (32-4, 18 KOs) return to the ring to take on Shujaa El Amin (12-8) in a 10-round light heavyweight bout as part of an exciting undercard on Tuesday, December 8 at Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, New Jersey.

The event is headlined by a featherweight showdown between Juan Dominguez (19-0, 13 KOs) and Yenifel "Lightning" Vicente (27-3-2, 19 KOs) on Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) TOE-TO-TOE TUESDAYS on FS1 and BOXEO DE CAMPEONES on FOX Deportes beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. Additional televised action features unbeaten cruiserweight Keith "Machine Gun" Tapia (16-0, 11 KOs) battling Garrett Wilson (16-9-1, 9 KOs) and undefeated rising middleweight prospect Immanuwel Aleem (14-0, 9 KOs) facing Carlos Galvan (11-3-1, 10 KOs) in an eight round bout. [Click Here To Read More]

Dawson was the first harbinger of Danny Garcia, the fighter praised as the best who was clearly not what he was sold to be, and survived on gifts and hand picked fights.

[!! Shawn]

Hmm ok I stand corrected, Dawson is responsible for his downfall, it wasn't a smart move at all.

Dawsons downfall was deviating from the carefully managed career path he had. It was always appeared he was mildly ******ed in the ring, with a shakey chin. He would always have a lapse in every fight he ever had, and get clipped, and let the fight be needlessly competitive.

[j0zef]

Poor Dawson. He's not even that old. Did he lose it before or after Ward?

[russogd3]

it makes zero sense. fans would never watch that. networks would never want that. no one wins.

Fans wouldn't watch it? Using that logic PBC should have zero viewership, all hyped up A-Side fighters vs bums most of the time. Wlad should also have zero viewership, his opponents and style is very similar to Ward, punch, clinch, one-two, clinch, etc.

I sure as heck would watch it, better than the opponent that Ward had lined up last month.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Scully did an interview with fighthype and Scully gets into detail about how his relationship with Chad went sour after the second Hopkins fight. Scully doesn't get it, he was oblivious to the fact that Chad was clearly unhappy with his performance against Hopkins, and he was disappointed in Scully as a trainer, yet it was his decision to fire Steward and hire Scully in the first place. And it wasn't the first time Chad made dumb decisions like that, and people wonder why his career is at an all time low.

BULL-SPIT, WIZZY LOLOL....you've always been the head hater on here to me so I expect it LOL...etc...Chad was VERY happy with the showing vs Hopkins and he should be because up to that time he beat him cleaner than anyone outside of maybe RJ...we clicked EXTREMELY WELL for that fight...getting ready for Ward was a nightmare, definitely not my fault, I explained already in detail on fighthype when asked...it was no secret...even his own brother talked about it in an interview BEFORE the fight with Dre. Chad and I separated because of my interview after the fight where I made it known that I was 10000 pct. in disagreement with the way the camp was run, and it wasnt run by me, thats the facts, it is what it is...once the fighter decides he's going to run things and do what he wants its the beginning of the end.

He still has the talent, though...he's still going to beat some people but at the very top, Kovalev and Adonis...they're a problem.

[Earl-Hickey]

he should fight bellew

[Boxingwizard]

BULL-SPIT, WIZZY LOLOL....you've always been the head hater on here to me so I expect it LOL...etc...Chad was VERY happy with the showing vs Hopkins and he should be because up to that time he beat him cleaner than anyone outside of maybe RJ...we clicked EXTREMELY WELL for that fight...getting ready for Ward was a nightmare, definitely not my fault, I explained already in detail on fighthype when asked...it was no secret...even his own brother talked about it in an interview BEFORE the fight with Dre. Chad and I separated because of my interview after the fight where I made it known that I was 10000 pct. in disagreement with the way the camp was run, and it wasnt run by me, thats the facts, it is what it is...once the fighter decides he's going to run things and do what he wants its the beginning of the end.

He still has the talent, though...he's still going to beat some people but at the very top, Kovalev and Adonis...they're a problem.

You just don't want to accept criticism wizzy, you think I'm hating on you for no reason, I'm simply observing and going by your own words. You admitted yourself how bad the relationship with Chad was for the Ward fight, and you got into detail about how he wouldn't want talk to you, and how Chad no longer applied your training ways. If it was simply the case of training camp no longer in your control, than Chad wouldn't have fired you.

I watched the Hopkins fight dozens of times, it was a really close fight, it could have gone either way, it could have been a draw. Chad was headhunting during that fight, that's how he got that cut in his eye from charging at Hopkins. I've never seen Chad headhunt until under your tutelage. Chad was bigger/faster/and just as good as a boxer as Hopkins, why was he fighting flat-footed and head-hunting? Anyone can see he was fighting the wrong fight. Look I'm not blaming everything on you because it was Chad's decision to go through all those trainers, but you should know better that switching trainers often especially during the middle of a scheduled fight was going to effect his performance. People say it was the Ward fight that was his downfall, but I think it was the Hopkins fight that mentally hurt him. When he got back to 175 against Stevenson he looked poor, he looked like he was questioning himself in the ring, and that's not the type of confidence that should be in against against a dangerous puncher. At the end of day that's history, nothing anyone can do about it, I don't know if he will ever make a comeback, but mentally I don't think he has it anymore to want to be great.