Coming up through the ranks, Chad Dawson always respected and even admired Antonio Tarver from afar.
Dawson was particularly impressed by Tarver’s two victories in three fights against Roy Jones Jr. and by Tarver’s avenging his loss to Glen Johnson in a rematch.
Then, as Dawson tells it, he met Tarver in an up-close-and-personal manner, only to come away disillusioned.
Dawson, normally mild of manner and quick with a genuine smile, used an expletive to describe Tarver in an interview at the Hard Rock Hotel this week.
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