Adrian Dodson | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 20, 1970 |
| Nationality | British, Guyanese |
| Statistics | |
| Weight(s) | Super-middleweight |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 31 |
| Wins | 25 |
| Wins by KO | 17 |
| Losses | 6 |
| Draws | 0 |
| No contests | 0 |
Adrian Dodson also known as Adrian Carew (born 20 September 1970) is a British former Olympic boxer. He competed for Guyana at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul under the name Adrian Carew before representing Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1]
Dodson's first Olympic appearance came as a 17-year-old competing in the light welterweight division. He won his first two fights against Bilal el-Masri of Libya and Vukašin Dobrašinović of Yugoslavia before losing to eventual bronze medallist Reiner Gies of West Germany in the third round.[2]
In 1989 he competed in the 147-pound division of Golden Gloves and won the Sugar Ray Robinson award as the outstanding boxer of the tournament.[3]
After moving to England he was the ABA welterweight champion in 1990, fighting out of Lynn ABC.[4] He then took his mother's last name Dodson and made his second Olympic appearance competing for Great Britain at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.[3] Due to the presence of Robin Reid in the team Dodson was forced to drop from his favoured light middleweight to the welterweight division in order to compete.[5] He won in the first round against Masashi Kawakami but lost in the second round to former World Amateur champion Francisc Vaştag of Romania.[6] Reid went on to win a bronze medal.[5]
After turning professional Dodson won his first 18 fights, including winning the WBO inter-continental title and defeating former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in 1995. He lost to Winky Wright in a world title fight in 1997 but won the IBO super-middleweight title in 2001.[5]
In 1999 he was fined £1,000 and banned for 18 months after being found guilty of biting Alain Bonnamie in the last round of their fight for the Commonwealth title.[7] Dodson retired from boxing in 2003 with a record of 25 wins and 6 defeats.[8][9]
In 2011 Dodson was scheduled to make a comeback in the super-middleweight division as part of the Prizefighter series, where he could have faced fellow 1992 Olympian Robin Reid.[10] Dodson pulled out before the series as he felt he was not in physical condition to compete and was replaced by Joe Ainscough.[11]