Daniel ‘The Rock’ Dawson trained and competed in Tae Kwon Do from the age of 13 to 15. In 1993 Daniel then found a Muay Thai/Kickboxing gym and began twice a day training to start his career as a professional fighter. “(I used to watch Rocky, Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme movies all through my childhood and always wanted to be fighter)”. Daniel was a 7 time WORLD champion in Muay Thai/Kickboxing and had fought in over 10 different countries all by the age of 23!
When the chance came in 2002 to start a career as a professional boxer he took on the exciting challenge to achieve the same level of competition in Boxing that he had in Muay Thai/Kickboxing. Daniel is a 5 time Australian Boxing Champion and a 9 time Oceania/Asian Pacific Regional Boxing champion. Daniel is now ranked in the top 15 in two major Boxing Organizations the I.B.F and the W.B.A. Daniel will be having his much anticipated televised Boxing debut in the United States in 2010!
Daniel is a certified Master Personal Trainer and has over 10 years experience as a trainer, instructor and Nutritionist.
Boxing, Muay Thai and K-1 Record
2 x W.A State Super Welterweight Champion
3 x Australian Light Middleweight Champion
2 x Australian Middleweight Champion
3 x P.A.B.A Light Middleweight Champion
2 x W.B.O Asian Pacific Super Welterweight Champion
2 x Pan African WBA Super Welterweight Champion
WBF International Super Welterweight Champion
IBF Pan Pacific Super Welterweight Champion
Rated by fist magazine as busiest fighter and held record for most professional bouts in a year in 2003
15 appearances on national Foxtel television
3x WMTA W.A. Super Lightweight Champion
3x ISKA World Super welterweight Champion
3x WMTA World Super Welterweight Champion
1 x ISS Brute Force World Super Welterweight Champion
2x Oceania Super 8 Champion
Australian representative in Japan for the prestigious K-1 rules tournament
Blitz Magazine Hall of fame kickboxer of the year 1999 + 2007
12 Appearances on national Foxtel television