Chad Dawson reuniting with Eddie Mustafa?

http://www.fighthype.com/news/article13780.html

Well at least Dawson is going back to a trainer who is familar with him. I've said all long that Dawson made a mistake hiring Scully and firing Steward. The last three fights Chad was fighting different and not effective.

This is why it's so important for a boxer to have an established team, and not switch trainers all the time or at all. Bernard Hopkins for example has had the team throughout his career and so has Andre Ward. Manny Pacquiao has been with Freddie Roach for over a decade. Dawson has had seven different trainers, probably the main reason his skills are declining. I understand some boxers need a new trainer, but switching trainers seven times? And Chad is still in his prime.

 

Scully did a terrible job with Dawson. He tried to turn Dawson into an inside fighter, which made Dawson's jab ineffective. It's not that Scully is a bad trainer, it's just that he doesn't have enough experience with Chad to know how he should be boxing. Had Scully been Dawson's trainer the last two years, Dawson would have been better prepared against Hopkins and Ward.

At least Muhammad has experience with Chad.

 

He switched trainers 8 times already, that's his problem. Had he stuck with Floyd Mayweather Sr he probably would be undefeated right now. You are right though, his problem is upstairs because he has a bad attitude and he's made a lot of stupid decisions in his career that has effected performance in the ring. For example firing Emanuel Steward when he was scheduled to face Hopkins.

When a boxer gets a new trainer, the trainer has to evaluate the fighter, knows what his strengths and weakness are, what the trainer needs to do make him fight effective. Multiply that by eight, so everytime Chad gets a new trainer he's always going back to square one, that's why Chad is never progressing but always regressing.

At least Eddie Muhammad has experience training Chad. But Chad's performance under Muhammad was not all that good either. He only looked good under Floyd Sr, so we'll see if Muhammad can improve Dawson.

 

Say what you about Floyd Sr, he made Chad fight to the best of his abilities. It's no coincidence that once Chad left Sr, he looked worse.

And Sr called Chad a ****** and a ****** after he fired him. I don't know why he fired Sr, but the strange thing was Chad fired him two weeks before a scheduled fight. Something must of escalated between the two for Chad to do that.