********sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/chad-dawson-calls-loss-andre-ward-hbo-set-184031903.html chad has memory problems since he called ward out and floated the idea of fighting him at 168.
Nobody put a gun to his head and forced him to fight there. During the build up he was so confident that it wouldn't effect him.
Ward beats Chad at 168, 175, catchweight, even.in 30 years Theres levela to this ****, and WARD is several levels above Chad.as.a boxer
Yeah but that fight didn't count. Like FMJ said...Dawson wasn't hydrated. He wasn't at his best, so it wasn't a real fight. In fact, it never even happened cuz catch weights are meaningless... :bart
He took the fight because he had no options at light heavyweight. He could have easily said no and moved on. No one can set him up, he's the one that signed the contract and agreed to everything. Dawson is just bitter. I'm just hoping he's not going to be his usual boring self on Saturday as he throws punches for 20 seconds and takes the entire round off.
Less glass and he wouldn't have ended up on his ass. A combination of glass & an inferior skill-set is a toxic one against the right opposition.
The thing is, and I said this at the time, Ward would have been able to beat Dawson at 175 anyway and he would have got a hell of a lot more credit for beating him there instead of bringing him down to 168 and letting have the excuse of being drained.
Chad is the one who called ward out at 168, said he could make it without a problem. I hold no bones to ward on this fight, even tho we wouldn't be talking this if the fight was at 175, even a catchweight would be into question.