Adrian Dodson

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 his adopted name, before representing Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Amateur career

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 Lebanon and Vukašin Dobrašinović of Yugoslavia before losing a disputed 3-2 decision to eventual bronze medallist Reiner Gies of West Germany in the quarter finals.

In 1989, he competed in the 147-pound division of the Golden Gloves and won the Sugar Ray Robinson Award as the outstanding boxer of the tournament.

After moving back to England, he was the ABA welterweight champion in 1990, fighting out of Lynn ABC. He then reverted to his birth name and mother's last name, Dodson, and made his second Olympic appearance competing for Great Britain at the 1992 Games in Barcelona. He won by KO in the second round against Masashi Kawakami of Japan in the first round of competition, but lost 6-5 decision on the computer scoring in the second round to former World Amateur champion Francisc Vaştag of Romania. Robin Reid went on to win a bronze medal. Dodson appealed this decision and was back in the ring August 2000. His last official professional boxing bout was on his birthday September 2003 with a record of 25 wins and 6 defeats.

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. Dodson pulled out before the series as he felt he was not in physical condition to compete and was replaced by Joe Ainscough.