dawson is a mental thing, he has all the talent in the world. he just needs to believe more and just tell it happen, if does the work and right things in training for 2 months before the fight he can beat anybody at 175.
Hearns is a clear one off hes made no champions since. He gets them once they are champions. Cotto? One fight against Yuri Foreman. WOW. Rest of them I don't even need to explain. His track record speaks for itself apart from the Klits.
Martinez has gotten the better of 3/4 quality fighters in their primes though. He's also achieved a lot more than other P4P contenders, even if you don't particularly rate his resume. Dawson had beaten Adamek. A win over Tomasz Adamek doesn't warrant a place at P4P number 3. I don't know about you, but I don't really count a close scrape and a fairly clear win against old man Johnson, and wins over Tarver (old too), because they are really not that good as neither were in their primes.
Dawson is a serious ****** and did a similar thing in build up to Pascal with regards to management etc.