Dawson Beats Johnson again

Chad Dawson, fighting in his home state, won an unanimous decision over an older and slower Glen Johnson to remain undefeated and win the interim WBC light heavyweight title.

The 27-year-old Dawson, who vacated his IBF title to fight Johnson, outboxed his 40-year-old opponent, who was never able to get close enough to land the hard punches that made their first fight in April 2008 so close.

About 5,000 people showed up for the bout at the 16,500-seat XL Center, which is about 40 miles north of where Dawson grew up in New Haven.

Dawson (29-0, 17 KOs) now awaits the winner of the Dec. 11 bout between WBC champion Jean Pascal and Adrian Diaconu.

Comments (6) >>

Homer said:

Wow, Chad's not going to make much money that way. Of the 5000 that showed, most of them were booing at the end.

07 November, 2009

AntWilkez said:

@Homer,Yeah thats true but were they really expecting Chad to stand there and trade punches with Glen? I always thought you boxed a brawler and brawled a boxer. Plus it's very hard to look good against Glen, his defense is very underrated smilies/grin.gif

08 November, 2009

Homer said:

Just an observation. His (Dawson's) effort seemed low.

08 November, 2009

355X6 Bench said:

They were saying Chad could be the best in the world, I really dont think so, he is regular at best and I almost fell asleep.

09 November, 2009

doctorSpoc said:

i think you guys are being a little bit rough on Dawson... i though he looked pretty damn good.. this is Glen Johnson he was fighting, not some bum off the street and he basically shut Johnson's attack down which is pretty damn hard to do.. Roy Jones couldn't do it and Glen ended up knocking Jone out cold, stiff. it's not very easy to look good against a guy like Glen Johnson. i though Dawson looked as good as someone can look against him.. he looked pretty poised on under control considering his competition...

i thought Dawson lost to Johnson the last time out and this time i had it 10 rounds to 2 for Dawson..

09 November, 2009

JoeLuis said:

I think El Perro took the show. He domolished that dude! POW right on the kisser! I'd like to see that rematch agains crybaby cintron!
Dawson is sure skillfull, but i dont expect him to see him in any full packed action fights. Not vs hopkins nor jones jr.

09 November, 2009

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