If Dawson wasn't American you guys would be calling him ****. But any decent fighter that comes out of america comes with the bull**** of being the next best thing. He's not, he's decent, but that's all.
that's what the europeans are doing. I really don't think anybody's calling him the "next best thing", i don't know where the hell you pulled that dumb **** out of. He's more then "decent". you just haven't watched any of his fights.
Calzaghe will still own anything that's out there right now. He out work everyone. Got a chin of steel. Got boxing smart. And got the most important skill in boxing SPEED. Manager mite of been cherry picking but Calzaghe is the real deal.
he isn't a nobody, but at the moment he isn't really a big name / somebody, but I am sure he has the potential to be, personally i think Dawson is riding the wave of his wins against Tarver, but he is going in the right direction. Here is a question.... who outside of boxing knows about Paul williams? perhaps if he became a muslim and changed his name to Sheik Abdull Osama Mohamed Hussain people would know who he is.
I still remember the Jeff Lacy fairytale couple years ago (before Calzaghe) Dawson never the had the same kind of hype! but its slowly starting