Quote Originally Posted by Fenster View Post
The reason is he had a fight with his mandatory (at the time) Tavoris Cloud lined up but HBO weren't interested in it and instead wanted Johnson.

They offered Dawson $150,000 for the Cloud fight and $800,000 for the Johnson fight.

Guess what he chose?
I'd rather see him against Cloud. I watched him against Gonzalez, a guy with a real iron jaw and he pummelled him very impressively!

In fact I think that might be the most interesting fight at LHW at the minute (outside old men).