By Eric Thomas: After losing to WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal last Saturday night by an 11 round technical decision, Chad Dawson was angry at the press conference after the fight, complaining about being head butted at least five times, and talking about the holding and hitting by Pascal, his “Running like a chicken” and also Dawson was upset at the Canadian referee for stopping the fight just when he had Pascal hurt in the 11th round. The referee didn’t technically stop the fight, but he did stop the action after the head butt in the 11th and it was the referee’s idea to march Dawson over to the ringside doctor for him to examine the cut.

It was then that the doctor quickly stopped the bout, not even giving Dawson a chance to finish the round and not giving Dawson’s team an opportunity to try and stop the cut. Moments after the fight, the cut had completely stopped bleeding with a small amount of ointment that was put on it and that makes you feel sorry for Dawson because he should have been given the opportunity to finish the round and then have his team work on the cut. I’ve seen much worse cuts before and I’ve never seen a doctor pull the plug on a fight as fast as last Saturday night.

This is what Dawson had to say about the fight at the post fight press conference: “He [Pascal] head butted me five or six times. It was funny when the referee jumped in and stopped the fight when I had him [Pascal] out on his feet. He knows it. I caught him with an uppercut. It’s funny that he jumped in and stopped it immediately. We have a rematch clause and I will be back for the title. Pascal said I would run around like a chicken, but he was the one that who ran around like a chicken. But I ended up chasing him around the ring all night. I knew he would to protect his little lead, and as soon as he would score a punch, he’d run but who’s the chicken? I’m the one pressing the fight all day. I got knots all over my face from head butts. He hit me in the head at least five times with really hard head butts and the referee just ignored it. Enjoy your victory and enjoy holding onto your title for a little while you got it because I’m coming after you to get it.”

You can say that again. I totally agree with everything that Dawson said. Pascal ran after he would land a shot, and looked out on his feet in the 11th just before he clashed heads with Dawson.