Chad Dawson
36–5 · 43 recorded bouts · 2001–2019
36–5
Chad Dawson finished 53% of 36 wins inside the distance — the 41st percentile for light heavyweight boxing, where the median is 58%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Chad Dawson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-07. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 208 light heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | W | Denis Grachev | Decision | 8 |
| 2019 | W | Quinton Rankin | Decision | 8 |
| 2017 | L | Andrzej Fonfara | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2016 | W | Cornelius White | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2015 | W | Shujaa El Amin | Decision | 10 |
| 2014 | L | Tommy Karpency | — | 10 |
| 2014 | W | George Blades | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Adonis Stevenson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Andre Ward | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2012 | W | Bernard Hopkins | — | 12 |
| 2011 | N | Bernard Hopkins | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Adrian Diaconu | Decision | 12 |
| 2010 | L | Jean Pascal | — | 11 |
| 2009 | W | Glen Johnson | Decision | 12 |
| 2009 | W | Antonio Tarver | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | W | Antonio Tarver | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | W | Glen Johnson | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Epifanio Mendoza | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2007 | W | Jesus Ruiz | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2007 | W | Tomasz Adamek | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Eric Harding | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Jamie Hearn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Jason Naugler | Decision | 8 |
| 2005 | W | Ian Gardner | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2005 | W | Ronald Boddie | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Efrain Garcia | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2004 | W | Carl Daniels | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2004 | W | Darnell Wilson | Decision | 10 |
| 2004 | ? | Aundalen Sloan | Decision | 6 |
| 2003 | W | Dumont Welliver | — | 8 |
| 2003 | W | Brett Lally | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2003 | W | Earl Allen | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Willie Lee | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Shannon Miller | Decision | 6 |
| 2002 | W | John Romans William | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2002 | W | Faustino Gonzalez | Decision | 6 |
| 2002 | W | Gary Grant | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Chad Sawyer | Decision | 4 |
| 2002 | W | Martin Desjardins | — | 4 |
| 2002 | W | Jerald Lowe | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | James Orso | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Antonio Baker | — | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Steve Garrett | — | 2 |
16 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Chad Dawson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 30 of 43 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Chad Dawson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
36–5
43 bouts on record
Finish rate
53%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 41st percentile
The career, bout by bout
43 recorded bouts from 2001 to 2019. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
2001–2019
Longest unbeaten run
29
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2002
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
43
43 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Chad Dawson's record?
- 36–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 43 bouts individually.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
Where this record leads
The 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Dawson sits inside.
212 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing30 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Bernard Hopkins vs Chad DawsonA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2011 Longest unbeaten runsChad Dawson went 29 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
LEADERBOARD