Chad Dawson- is he done?

[Vendettos]

To be honest, he did look good. His movement was good. He took some shots. Karpency did come up for the fight and may be underrated. Dawson did hurt his hand/shoulder. Even with that he still moved around the ring and Karpency couldn't catch him clean afterwards...

I think Dawson was looking for a gift decision. It could have gone either way. I feel the Ledderman card was a little mean, knowing full well Dawson had to have a good in-road with Showtime and her father is a long standing employee of their rival, HBO.

Be that as it may... I wouldn't want to call it quits yet. I would want to rematch Karpency. He doesn't have to, but rematch him anyways- and, if you cant get the win then, perhaps you should call it a day.

6 fights in 3 years, win 2 (1 against a nobody) - 1 draw - 3 Losses (2 bad stoppages)

I think with that kind of form at 32 it may be tough for him to get back on track.

It's made all the worse with the fact that he is STILL a threat, so even if he wanted to try quickly to get back up there, he may find it hard to get the correct ranked fighters to accept his challenges.

Congrats to you also yk on a decent thread worth reading!

[erics44]

To be honest, he did look good. His movement was good. He took some shots. Karpency did come up for the fight and may be underrated. Dawson did hurt his hand/shoulder. Even with that he still moved around the ring and Karpency couldn't catch him clean afterwards...

I think Dawson was looking for a gift decision. It could have gone either way. I feel the Ledderman card was a little mean, knowing full well Dawson had to have a good in-road with Showtime and her father is a long standing employee of their rival, HBO.

Be that as it may... I wouldn't want to call it quits yet. I would want to rematch Karpency. He doesn't have to, but rematch him anyways- and, if you cant get the win then, perhaps you should call it a day.

6 fights in 3 years, win 2 (1 against a nobody) - 1 draw - 3 Losses (2 bad stoppages)

I think with that kind of form at 32 it may be tough for him to get back on track.

It's made all the worse with the fact that he is STILL a threat, so even if he wanted to try quickly to get back up there, he may find it hard to get the correct ranked fighters to accept his challenges.

Congrats to you also yk on a decent thread worth reading!

you could look at this a totally different way tho

6 fights in 3 years, win 2 (1 against a nobody) - 1 draw - 3 Losses (2 bad stoppages)

1 draw? cummon now

1 win against hopkins, cant be sniffed at

1 loss to ward? clearly weight drained

1 loss to stevenson, yeah bad knockout but one punch caught cold and could he have continued?

1 loss the other night, he says he was injured, apparently he clearly didnt use his arm in the last 3

if the ward fight would have been at light heavy, if he hadnt have taken stevenson so lightly? he may never had been in that figt last night

[Rantcatrat]

To be honest, he did look good. His movement was good. He took some shots. Karpency did come up for the fight and may be underrated. Dawson did hurt his hand/shoulder. Even with that he still moved around the ring and Karpency couldn't catch him clean afterwards...

I think Dawson was looking for a gift decision. It could have gone either way. I feel the Ledderman card was a little mean, knowing full well Dawson had to have a good in-road with Showtime and her father is a long standing employee of their rival, HBO.

Be that as it may... I wouldn't want to call it quits yet. I would want to rematch Karpency. He doesn't have to, but rematch him anyways- and, if you cant get the win then, perhaps you should call it a day.

6 fights in 3 years, win 2 (1 against a nobody) - 1 draw - 3 Losses (2 bad stoppages)

I think with that kind of form at 32 it may be tough for him to get back on track.

It's made all the worse with the fact that he is STILL a threat, so even if he wanted to try quickly to get back up there, he may find it hard to get the correct ranked fighters to accept his challenges.

Congrats to you also yk on a decent thread worth reading!

you could look at this a totally different way tho

6 fights in 3 years, win 2 (1 against a nobody) - 1 draw - 3 Losses (2 bad stoppages)

1 draw? cummon now

1 win against hopkins, cant be sniffed at

1 loss to ward? clearly weight drained

1 loss to stevenson, yeah bad knockout but one punch caught cold and could he have continued?

1 loss the other night, he says he was injured, apparently he clearly didnt use his arm in the last 3

if the ward fight would have been at light heavy, if he hadnt have taken stevenson so lightly? he may never had been in that figt last night

Good points. It begs the question though whether he is even capable of another performance like he had against Hopkins now.