By Dan Ambrose: John Scully, the trainer for newly crowned WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson, wonders how WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward will deal with the speed, size, power and boxing ability of Dawson in their proposed September 8th fight for Ward’s World Boxing Association 168 pound title.

Instead of answering the question of how Dawson will be able to deal with a slick and tough fighter like Ward, Scully is wondering how Ward will be able to deal with a fighter like Dawson who is much different from the guys that Ward has been facing thus far in his career.

Scully said to RingTV “People need to realize that Ward’s going to have a lot to deal with Chad. Ward has never faced anybody like Chad before in terms of his style and the speed and the youth and the elusiveness and combination punching. Chad’s completely different than a Mikkel Kessler.”

Kessler is easily Ward’s biggest win of his career, and even better than wins over guys like Carl Froch and Sakio Bika. However, Dawson is a lot tougher to deal with than those guys because of his size, athletic ability and boxing skills. Dawson out-boxes his opponents and doesn’t take shots like Ward does.

Ward really didn’t shine in his fight against Froch, and took a lot of punishment in that bout. Dawson wouldn’t likely take the same kind of punishment that Ward did because he wouldn’t be there for Froch’s shots. He would be simply get out of the way of the punches and leave Froch punching at the air. The same holds true for a fight between Dawson and Kessler. Dawson would out-box Kessler and rarely get hit by him.

Ward is going to have to find a way to turn the fight against Dawson into an inside war, and that’s not going to be easy to do because Dawson is too elusive and strong to be pushed into the ropes the way that Ward has done that against weaker opponents.