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Andre Ward dominates fellow
American Chad Dawson for the WBC and WBA Super middleweight title at the Oracle
Arena, Oakland, California, United States. Ward now, 26–0–0 (KO 14) showed superiority early
in the fight—knocking down Dawson in the third round.
Dawson’s defeat was excruciating since he was the fact calling out Ward after a win against Bernard Hopkins and as a result compromise to fight at 168 pounds.
In the post fight interview Ward convey a huge respect to
Dawson for calling him out for this fight.
"There's a lot at stake. I take my hat off to Chad. He risked a lot coming down to fight me. He called me out, and you gotta take your hat off to Chad for that. He has nothing to be ashamed about. Chad Dawson is still the light heavyweight kingpin in my opinion”.
It is really a big gamble
for Dawson to come down in weight. He has been campaigning in the Light
heavyweight Division for some time. I really don’t know how the weight really
affects him in this fight.
However, as far as I know for
boxers coming down in weight after fighting for several years in his comfortable
weight never had a positive effect.
Although I am not taking
away anything from Ward, he was clearly dominating and had the arsenal that
really look Dawson really bad in this fight, really bad.
Nevertheless, if the fight
happened at 175 pounds it might have been a different story.