What happened to Chad Dawson

[LacedUp]

This happened.

[Weebler I]

Tommy Karpency took his soul.

[New England]

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.

everybody who has ever worked with chad dawson, from managers to trainers, is convinced that he'd be a great if he just let his hands go.

chad's didn't just run out of luck. he didn;t let his hands go in his prime the way he could have, and it cost him.

the pascal fight is the perfect example of that.

[LacedUp]

Well he doesn't get credit from me. Most of the rounds were typical Hopkins rounds when he isn't exactly dominating but he is dirtying it up so much that the judge doesn't know who to score it for. Hopkins barely got caught with anything in that fight, it's just that he did did little himself offensively. This is usually what happens with B-hop, against slick boxers who try to be cute.

The way Kovalev dominated Hopkins (albeit a few years older) just shows that you can't even say things like: Well if Hopkins was 5 years younger, he would've won. If he straight up dominated him, rather then squeak out a split decision win, then that means he still probably would've beat him even if he was younger. Hopkins was older, but he wasn't 1980-Muhamad Ali Vs Larry Holmes shot. And I was rooting for Hop.

How does Kovalev's anus taste? Same as Klitschko's?

Chad Dawson first kind of got Hopkins to quit, and secondly beat him relatively easily in the second fight.

He doesn't get anywhere near the credit Kovalev gets for that win, when in reality he beat a better Hopkins than Kovalev did.

[New England]

This happened.

i hit it first.

[New England]

How does Kovalev's **** taste? Same as Klitschko's?

he's got a thread in NSB celebrating his 10k posts.

dude has an alt with several thousand posts called "one capitalist."



he's a very strange racist.

[bulldognyc]

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.

I was always a huge Dawson fan. Very underrated south paw. Great ability. But, it's like you said he ran out of luck. It's boxing, things happen. Like Ali said, if you're undefeated, you haven't everybody. Chad isn't undefeated. Hope to see him make a marginal comeback.

[Bigg Rigg]

I remember when people was saying this guy was the truth, he scared Calzaghe into retirement!

Ward weight drained him and then knocked him out. He was done after hat.

[New England]

and yes, there was a point in time, around '08 iirc, where dawson was avoided by hopkins and calzaghe. he was a big, strong southpaw with good speed, and they didn't want anything to do with him at their advanced ages.

hopkins finally got in the ring with him, and pulled out of the fight with a shoulder injury early on.
chad ud'd him in the rematch, but for some reason one of the judges didn't get it right.

[Beercules]

Did he have a fight after he lost to that farmer from Pennsylvania?