![]() "It wasn't an ugly separation by any means. Assisting Scully, who has been in camp with Dawson for a couple of weeks despite the formal announcement not coming until Monday night, is former undisputed junior middleweight champion Winky Wright. That list also includes Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Floyd Mayweather Sr., Dan Birmingham and Steward. Now he is back with Scully, one of the many trainers the 29-year-old Dawson (30-1, 17 KOs) has gone though. He should have been in camp with me a month ago." Then Herman called me a few days ago and said, 'I cannot believe this, but he wants to stay home.' Every day I wanted to know where he was. I was under the impression Chad was coming to Detroit. I cannot just uproot everybody and start trying to find places for everyone to stay. "Even guys like Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan, both stars - they train with Freddie Roach and they go to his gym. In boxing, unless you are a big name, like a Wladimir Klitschko (whom Steward trains), the fighter comes to where the trainer is at. I have (middleweight) Andy Lee getting ready for a big fight, I am training Ronald Hearns again. I can't leave my training camp in Detroit. Then I talked to (Dawson promoter) Gary Shaw about 10 days ago and he said Chad told him he wanted to train on the East Coast. I called Chad twice to see when he was coming to camp and he never returned the calls. And then I didn't hear anything from anyone. "About a month ago I was talking to Herman Woodard (Dawson's lawyer) and he told me Chad's wife just had a baby and that he wanted to train close to home because of the new baby," Steward told. ![]() Steward said he was surprised by the switch. Dawson preferred to train in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, which is driving distance from his home in Connecticut, rather than relocate for the training camp to Detroit, where Steward is based and training multiple fighters.ĭawson never began camp with Steward, whom he had only worked with for one fight, his May decision win against Adrian Diaconu in Montreal on the undercard of Hopkins' history-making victory against Jean Pascal to become, at 46, the oldest fighter in history to win a world title.ĭawson, the mandatory challenger, will face Hopkins at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Oct. The split with Steward came down to geography. With a month to go before he challenges light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins, former titlist Chad Dawson announced Monday night that he has replaced Hall of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward with John Scully, who trained Dawson earlier in his career. You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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