Chad Dawson

Chad Dawson: They must want to throw me out of the game

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Fight Night-0001(Photo Credit: Amanda Kwok / SHOWTIME) By Allan Fox: Former IBF/WBC 175 pound champion Chad Dawson (32-4, 18 KOs) is convinced that the powers that be are looking to throw him out of the sport of boxing following his close 10 round split decision loss to Tommy Karpency (24-4-1, 14 KOs) last night in Dawson’s fight on Showtime from the Foxwoods Resort, in Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA.

Dawson was a huge favorite to win the fight coming in. Indeed, he was a 25:1 favorite to defeat Karpency, who had never beaten anyone remotely talented before in his 8 year pro career. But Dawson failed to fight as hard as he needed to in order to impress the three judges, especially late in the fight when he was outworked by Karpency.

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Martirosyan beats Nelson; Tommy Karpency edges Chad Dawson; Barthelemy wins

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Fight Night-0002(Photo Credit: Amanda Kwok / SHOWTIME) By Allan Fox: IBF World super featherweight champion Rances Barthelemy (21-0, 12 KOs) remained unbeaten in easily defeating #3 IBF Fernando David Saucedo (52-6-3, 8 KOs) by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Fox Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The final judges’ scores were 120-108, 120-108 and 120-108.

Barthelemy, 32, hurt Saucedo in the 5th round after hitting him hard with a left hand to the head. But he was unable to finish Saucedo off despite hitting him with everything he had. The round ran out before Barthelemy could get him out of there.

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Chad Dawson hoping to get world title shot within 2 more fights

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dawson2By Dan Ambrose: Former IBF/WBC light heavyweight champ Chad Dawson (32-3, 18 KOs) fights tonight on a Showtime televised fight card against Tommy Karpency (23-4-1, 14 KOs) at the Foxwoods Resort, in Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA.

The 32-year-old Dawson has lost 2 out of his last 3 fights, and he’s in a situation here where he cannot afford to lose if he wants to try and bring his career back to it’s former level. Dawson’s career has taken a major hit with knockout losses to Andre Ward and Adonis Stevenson. Dawson is ranked at #14 by the World Boxing Council, and he’s got a long ways to go if his goal is to try and fight Stevenson a second time to try and avenge his loss to him.

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Dawson-Karpency, Martirosyan-Nelson & Barthelemy-Saucedo this Saturday

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dawson100By Dan Ambrose: This Saturday night former IBF/WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (32-3, 18 KOs) will be fighting former world title challenger Tommy Karpency (23-4-1, 14 KOs) in a 10 round bout at the Foxwoods Resort, in Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA. This is a tune-up fight for the 32-year-old Dawson.

This fight should give a good indication how much Dawson has left in the tank, because Karpency has a pretty good chin. Dawson may have to go the full 12 rounds with him if he wants to get the victory. Hopefully for Dawson’s sake, he’s not blubbery like he was in his last fight against George Blades last June.

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Chad Dawson faces Tommy Karpency on 10/4

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dawson4545By Allan Fox: Former WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (32-3, 18 KOs) will be fighting next month against former world title challenger Tommy Karpency (23-4-1, 14 KOs) in a scheduled 10 round bout on October 4th at the Foxwoods Resort, in Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA.

For the 32-year-old Dawson, this is his 2nd fight of his comeback. He defeated George Blades by a 1st round knockout last June in an impressive performance. Dawson was overweight in that fight and he looked like he hadn’t trained hard for the fight.

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Chad Dawson vs. Andrzej Fonfara a possibility

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dawson6787By Allan Fox: A fight between former WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (32-3, 18 KOs) and former world title challenger Andrzej Fonfara (25-3, 15 KOs) is being talked about at 175, according to Steve Kim.

Dawson, 32, is trying to rebuild his career after having suffered knockout defeats to Andre Ward and Adonis Stevenson. Dawson won his last fight by a 1st round knockout against George Blades in a fight in the cruiserweight division last June at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

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Chad Dawson to fight in September, expects world title shot in early 2015

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dawson6787By Allan Fox: Former IBF/WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (32-3, 18 KO’s) says he’ll be fighting twice more in 2014 before looking to get a world title shot in early 2015 against one of the champions. Dawson, 31, knocked out George Blades (23-6, 16 KO’s) in the 1st round last night in a 3-knockdown performance in an off TV fight at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

Despite looking a little fat at 202 pounds, Dawson was very impressive in mixing his punches up well from the head to the body in destroying a decent fighter in 39-year-old Blades. Immediately after Dawson put Blades down for a third time and the fight was stopped by referee Raul Caiz Jr at 2:35 of the round.

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Dawson comes in overweight, fined 20% of purse for Blades fight

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dawson55By Dan Ambrose: Looking kind of thick around the middle, former IBF/WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (31-3, 17 KO’s) came in over the contract weight of 179 pounds at Friday’s weigh-in for his fight against 39-year-old George Blades (23-5, 16 KO’s) on Saturday night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

Dawson came in at 182.8lbs, and because of that he was fined 20% of his $15,000 purse for the fight. Blades weighed in at 177.4lbs, and easily made the weight. That’s got to hurt Dawson in the pocket book to have $3K taken out of his purse, which already was incredibly small. Dawson was making over $1 million for his fights while the IBF/WBC 175lb champion.

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Chad Dawson faces George Blades this Saturday from StubHub Center, Carson, California

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dawson2By Allan Fox: Former light heavyweight world champion Chad Dawson (31-3, 17 KO’s) will be trying to turn his career around on Saturday night against George Blades (23-5, 16 KO’s) in a 10 round bout on Showtime Extreme.

Dawson lost his last two fights to Adonis Stevenson and Andre Ward, and now it’s important that he wins that fight so that he can work his way back into title contention for another world title shot.

Dawson still has the talent to be a world champion at 175, as long as he avoids Stevenson and WBO champion Sergey Kovalev.

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