On Dawson and his future options "I don't know if there is a most, i mean where not going to chase Hopkins, if they wanted to fight Chad somebody from Golden Boy would have called me, either Hopkins himself who's the promoter or a representative of Hopkin's and they haven't. So you know we'll fight any of the champions at 175, we'll fight at 168, we'll fight Allen Green, we'll fight Jermaine Taylor, we'll take Mikkel Kessler, if Pavlik want's to come up we'll fight Pavlik, there's no one we will not fight." "I think there are bigger fight's, I don't think we take the rematch. That would mean two rematches in a row against two forty year old fighters. I don't think that's what the fans want to see, they want to see an action packed fight, you know guys really throwing the leather not leaning on each other. You know I think it's the scribes that are yelling out for Glen Johnson, I haven't read any blogs where the fans say we have to have Glen Johmson, I think it's a figment of the writers imagination, I think a fight against Mikkell Kessler, Allen Green, Jermain Taylor would have alot more fireworks to it. We'll do Froch or Bute in a fight put twenty thousand people in the seats that's got to be a little more fan friendly than fighting another rematch." On Darchinyan; "July 11. He's fights Agbeko the IBF bantamweight champion. Darchinyan is the single best fighter, in, I don't know what weight. All the weights, I love him and he's probably the most fan friendly fighter out there. Eating Mexicans is his speciality and now he's going add some Africano to his diet." On why Bradley vacated and his future fights; "Because the WBC wouldn't let Timothy Bradley be a unified champ. Had they, we would have fought Devon Alexander. How do you take the belt away from a unified champ ? Why would the sanctioning body do that? Wouldn't it be better if they all got along? Sulaiman gave this speech about everybody getting along, then he strips Bradley. But it had nothing to do with not fighting Alexander." "Maybe Nate Campbell, there's a few names we're looking at. Obviously they have some promotional issues. I've spoken to Terry Trekas and they have to straighten some things out before we can even really talk about the fight. I will not interfere with Don King's contract."
A focused, gritty vet like Nate Campbell is the perfect fight to assess exactly where Timothy is right now. A fifty fifty fight.
Dawson should move down to 168 if he can without effecting his performance. The LHW division is **** at the moment, full of old guys and paper champions who stay at home and fight bums.
:roll: I guess he is alergic to Fillipino. (Gary Shaw is fast becoming the new Don King..in terms of *******!, Defo not $)
GARY SHAW: WE HAVE TO HAVE GLEN JOHNSON I know I've written that on my own blog, but I doubt Shaw actually goes to these places anyway. What's this bull**** about saying he needs to face someone who will throw leather, and using that as an excuse not to fight Johnson? Unlike Tarver, the first Johnson fight was an action-packed fight. 40 or not, Johnson's more active in the ring than most of Dawson's other options.
Not to mention, most of the top dogs in the SMW division are on Showtime's roster. It's not as prohibiting as it used to be, but still something to keep in mind.
