Dawson vs. Tarver is OFF

It's true, Tarver doesn't have a lot of options himself.

 

Tarver ducks Dawson, just like ducked Adamek before him. No surprise here, the milkdud will catch a beating somewhere else, if/when he steps it up in class. :good

 

Diaconu is by far the more interesting fight...Adrian actually has a legitimate chance.

 

I agree with those who say that even though Diaconu would not help bring Dawson to a wider market as much as a Tarver would, it would be a more difficult fight and the real fans would appreciate it more. I am not sure whether Dawson has done it for the money or because Tarver ducked him, or, as would like to hope, because Dawson stays the course true, fighting the best out there. Or maybe, it's just that now, Diaconu is an exciting prospect and Dawson wants to cherry-pick him from the highest branch and Tarver isn't really such a big name. It's probably a combination of all these things. What is certain is that boxing hasn't become squeeky clean, batting with a straight bat, even if Dawson has come out of this so far smelling of roses, which we should be in any case glad about.

 

It's simple, really. Dawson wanted Tarver for the money (nothing noble in that ). Tarver looked at the tapes and sharted himself on his milkdud-coloured couch at home, and said no thanks. Dawson then had to face his mandatory Diaconu, the WBC #1 at the moment...a win for boxing fans, a loss for Dawson's wallet, a big win for team Diaconu.

 

I thought Dawson would have had to give such a big percentage to Tarver and such a small one to Diaconu, particularly to make the fight in Montreal that in the end, he will make more money from the Diaconu fight...i.e 4/6 of Big$ is less than 8/2 of Small$...in this case...looks like I was wrong because Big$ is really big!

 

So Tarver is shitting himself.