From the clips I saw of it Ward was completely ignoring the fact that the fight was at 168 even though Dawson brought that up. Ward just kept repeating himself that he liked Chad and didn't want to fight him and felt bad about beating him. It was seriously cringe vomit inducing stuff.
I felt the same way, there was also some irony in how Ward mentions multiple times how Chad would fight anyone anywhere and how he respected that...
Dawson also seems to be pretty punchy likely CTE and it seemed like Ward was taking advantage of that in the interview just ignoring Dawson talking about the fight being at 168 and just over the top glazing him to make it seem like he beat a great fighter.