Chad Dawson

Chad Dawson
Data
Birth Name	Chad Dawson
Weight class	Light heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	July 13, 1982
place of birth	Hartsville
style	Legal display
size	1.85 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	41
Victories	34
Knockout victories	19th
Defeats	5
draw	0
No value	2

Chad Dawson (born July 13, 1982 in Hartsville , South Carolina ) is an American professional boxer and former world light heavyweight champion of the WBC , IBF and IBO .

amateur

Born in South Carolina, Dawson grew up in Connecticut . The tall southpaw had a 67-13 amateur record and became the US junior middleweight champion in 2000. At the Junior World Championships in Budapest that year , he won a bronze medal in the middleweight division. With a walk-through for the preliminary round, he entered the second round, where he defeated Beibut Schumenow prematurely and so moved into the quarter-finals. His opponent there Mohamed Akli Amari did not stand up for a fight ( walkover ), which means that he automatically made it to the semifinals. There he was finally defeated by the Cuban Sullivan Barrera on points.

Professional career

In 2001, at the age of 19, he switched to the professional camp. At the beginning of his career he boxed in the middle and super middleweight division against average opponents . A fight in March 2003, which he originally won on points, was not counted as it failed the doping test. Against middleweight Willie Lee he was down. In October 2004 he defeated the former WBA middleweight title holder Carl Daniels by knockout .

From 2005 he boxed only in the super middleweight division, where he was knocked out over the respected Ian Gardner and since 2006 only in the light heavyweight division.

In 2006 he defeated Eric Harding clearly on points in this weight class , but he had to go back to the ground in the first round against the actually less powerful veteran, which allows negative conclusions to be drawn about his ability to take. With this victory he had worked his way up the WBC rankings so far that he should compete in an elimination match against Stipe Drews in December 2006 . However, the Croat canceled the fight at short notice to box against the WBA title holder Silvio Branco .

Dawson then got his title chance and on February 3, 2007 defeated the Polish defending champion Tomasz Adamek surprisingly clearly on points (both boxers were on the ground) and won the WBC title.

He defended this title in June 2007 against Jesus Ruiz and in September 2007 against Epifanio Mendoza with a technical knockout in the 6th and 4th round. He won against Glen Johnson in April 2008 unanimously on points.

On October 11, 2008, Dawson finally boxed against Antonio Tarver, the world champion of the IBF and IBO federations. He won unanimously on points (118-109, 117-110, 117-110). On May 9, 2009 there was another fight against Antonio Tarver. Also this fight could Dawson win again unanimously on points.

On November 7, 2009 he won the WBC Association's interim world championship against Glen Johnson, but was dethroned on August 14, 2010 by Jean Pascal . On October 15, 2011, he won the WBC belt prematurely against record world champion Bernard Hopkins . The referee stopped the fight after 2:48 minutes of the 2nd round after he had judged Hopkins, who had fallen after a clinch and was injured in the shoulder, to be no longer fit for the fight. The Hopkins team successfully appealed this decision. The WBC federation decided five days after the controversial rating of Los Angeles that the fight should be classified as a technical draw and gave Hopkins the world championship belt back.

However, Dawson won the rematch on April 28, 2012 over 12 rounds on points and became the new WBC world champion. In September 2012 he lost in a title unification fight in California, the undefeated WBA world champion Andre Ward prematurely in the tenth round. In June 2013 he lost prematurely in the first round against Adonis Stevenson .

predecessor	Office	successor
Tomasz Adamek	Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) February 3, 2007 - July 11, 2008	Adrian Diaconu

predecessor	Office	successor
Antonio Tarver	Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) October 11, 2008 - May 27, 2009	Tavoris Cloud

predecessor	Office	successor
Bernard Hopkins	Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) April 28, 2012 - September 8, 2012	Andre Ward

Web links

• Chad Dawson in the BoxRec database