Chad Dawson vs. George Blades on 6/21 on Guerrero-Kamegai card

dawson4545By Dan Ambrose: Chad Dawson (31-3, 17 KO’s) will be staging a comeback this month after a year-long layoff to fight George Blades (23-5, 16 KO’s) on the Robert Guerrero vs. Yoshihiro Kamegai card on 6/21 at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, according to RingTV. The Dawson-Blades fight, which isn’t expected to be a competitive one, won’t be make the television portion of the Showtime card.

It’s not surprising that the Dawson vs. Blades fight won’t be televised because the card is loaded with Gary Russell Jr facing Vasyl Lomachenko for the vacant WBO featherweight title, former two division world champion Devon Alexander battling Jesus Soto Karass in a 10-round bout, and heavyweights Dominic Breazeale and Devin Vargas going at in a 10 round fight.

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Chad Dawson signs with Al Haymon

dawson2By Allan Fox: In a move that is probably 2 fights too late, former WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (31-3, 17 KO’s) has signed with adviser Al Haymon to help manage his sagging career. Dawson, 31, has lost his last two fights both by knockout to Andre Ward and Adonis Stevenson. He’s not looked good in the ring in quite a while, even before his losses to those two fighters.

At one time, Dawson was considered to be the best fighter at 175, but he failed to do much with his career other than fight a lot of older guys like Glen Johnson, Antonio Tarver and Bernard Hopkins.

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Bellew to face Stevenson-Cloud winner in November

bellew22By Scott Gilfoid: #1 WBC, Tony Bellew (20-1, 12 KO’s) is now locked in to face the winner of the September fight between WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson and Tavoris Cloud, according to the BBC Sport. Bellew will fight the winner of that bout possibly on November 30th.

Bellew doesn’t match up well at all with Stevenson, so I imagine he’s hoping that Cloud is the guy he’s going to be facing in November because Stevenson would be a nightmare opponent for him.

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Can Chad Dawson turn his career around with a new trainer?

dawson6756By Eric Thomas: Former WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson’s career is at a pretty low point right now after his 1st round TKO loss to Adonis Stevenson this month, and there are many boxing fans questioning whether the 31-year-old Dawson still has anything left for him to make another run at a world title at 175.

I think Dawson needs to find another trainer, preferably his old trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. so that he can get Dawson to start focusing on defense first and not slugging with his opponents.

Dawson’s chin clearly isn’t good enough for him to be mixing it up with opponents at this point in his career.

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Dawson faces long road back

dawson1By Nick Reynolds: Three punches. All Adonis Stevenson (21-1, 18 knockouts) needed was one of them.

In the 76th second of Saturday night’s main event at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Adonis Stevenson launched a thunderous left cross that sent (now former) WBC light heavyweight champion of the world, Chad Dawson (31-3, 17 knockouts), crumbling to the canvas. Dawson managed to awkwardly stumble back to his feet to survive the ten count, but referee Michael Griffin deemed Dawson unfit to continue, and the fight was halted.

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Stevenson vs. Dawson review & look at how Chad can bounce back

dawson54By Peter Wells (twitter @boxingbrains): It took barely more than a minute, for a fight expected by most to last the full 12 rounds, to end. No surprise though in the man scoring the one punch KO, as Haiti-Canadian Adonis Stevenson landed a looping left hand to the jaw of Chad Dawson.

‘Bad’ Chad staggering to his feet was left once again to pick up the pieces after consecutive defeats and his 3rd of his career. Although the early defeat won’t have the same effects physically on Dawson as the previous two, but the concern is what has this defeat done to Dawson mentally.

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Has Chad Dawson lost his punch resistance?

dawson100By Allan Fox: Chad Dawson (31-3, 17 KO’s) was knocked out for the second straight fight last Saturday night by Adonis Stevenson (21-1, 18 KO’s), and in the process of losing the fight, Dawson lost his WBC light heavyweight title. Dawson, 30, didn’t even make out of the 1st round against Stevenson, as he knocked out with the third punch of the fight by Stevenson.

Dawson only connected on two punches of his own during the fight, but to see him knocked out so quickly was rather alarming considering he’d been knocked out in his previous fight by Andre Ward last September.

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Adonis Stevenson wants Hopkins or Ward next

stevenson454By Scott Gilfoid: #1 WBC 175 lb. contender Tony Bellew might have to do some waiting before he eventually gets a shot at newly crowned WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (21-1, 18 KO’s) because he’s looking for bigger game; namely Andre Ward (26-0, 14 KO’s) or IBF light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (53-6-2, 32 KO’s). Those were the names that Stevenson mentioned last night after his stunning 1st round knockout win over WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (31-3, 17 KO’s) at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.

Stevenson knocked Dawson out with a left hand to the head a little over a minute into the fight. Dawson never even got a got chance to get warmed up before he was starched out by Stevenson.

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Stevenson destroys Dawson; Gamboa decisions Perez

dawson2By Jim Dower: WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (31-3, 17 KO’s) made the mistake of coming out aggressive tonight against the hard hitting Adonis Stevenson (21-1, 18 KO’s) and it cost him big time by Dawson getting knocked out by a single left hand from Stevenson in the 1st round at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.

Dawson was fighting more or less okay up to the point Stevenson nailed him with a big left hand shot. Once that shot landed, Dawson went down flat on his back on the canvas.

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Stevenson’s promoter: If Adonis doesn’t beat Dawson it could be a long time before he gets another world title shot

stevenson222By Allan Fox: At 35-years-old, Adonis Stevenson (20-1, 17 KO’s) is in a must win situation tonight against WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (31-2, 17 KO’s) in their HBO televised fight at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. A loss for Stevenson will put him in a situation where it might take him one-two years get another title shot. At his age he can’t afford that because there’s no telling how much time the Canadian has left with his boxing career.

Stevenson’s promoter Yvon Michel said this about Stevenson’s situation as quoted by RingTV: If Adonis Stevenson doesn’t win this fight, it could be a very long time before we see another world championship fight here.”

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