Johnson started the 10th with a pair of hard right hands, but Dawson came back with a three-punch combination to the body and got back on his bicycle.
At the beginning of the 12th, Johnson came out and landed a hard jab, right hand combination. He continued to try to put the pressure on Dawson, but Dawson played it safe for the rest of the fight.
“I thought I did enough to win, especially in the later rounds,” said Johnson, who is now 49-13-2 (33 KO s). “He was running and I knew he would do that. I thought I could make him run out of gas at the end and I thought he did.”
In the first fight between the two, Dawson won a unanimous decision on April 12, 2008 in Tampa, Fla.
Alfredo Angulo won the World Boxing Organization interim junior middleweight title with a third-round stoppage of previously unbeaten Harry Joe Yorgey.
Angulo (17-1, 14 KO s) first hurt Yorgey in the second round with a left hook to the back of the head and a straight right that put Yorgey on the canvas. Angulo continued to go after Yorgey, stunning him with another right hand, then ripping him with a hard hook and uppercut just before the round, causing Yorgey to bleed from the nose.
John Lawson scored the second round 10-7 for Angulo, while Julie Lederman and Don Trella scored it 10-8.
Angulo connected on 113 of 233 punches and Yorgey landed 31 of 125.
Early in the third, Angulo landed a left hook, causing Yorgey to fall forward, grabbing Angulo’s legs. After another left hook, Yorgey went to the canvas again and referee John Callas stopped the fight without a count at 1:03.
Yorgey, of Bridgeport, Pa., dropped to 22-1-1 (10 KO s).
Orlando Lora of Mexico won an eight-round unanimous decision over Octavio Narvaez of Nicaragua at welterweight. The scores were 77-75 (twice) and 78-75. Lora is now 26-0-1 (18 KO s); Narvaez is 7-8-1 (4 KO s).
Miami middleweight Michael Oliveira earned a stoppage victory when Francisco Osorio, also of Miami, did not answer the bell for the eighth and final round. Oliveira is now 9-0 (7 KO s); Osorio is 12-7 (10 KO s).
Chris Alavos of Lancaster, Calif. won an eight-round unanimous decision over Robert DaLuz of Providence, R.I. at bantamweight. The scores were 79-73 (twice) and 80-71 for Avalos, now 13-0 (10 KO s); DaLuz dropped to 12-22-3 (9 KO s).
In an all-Philadelphia middleweight contest, Tyrone Brunson knocked out Jose Medina in the third round of a scheduled 10. After Brunson dropped Medina with a body punch, referee Richard Flaherty counted Medina out at 1:31. Brunson is now 21-0-1 (20 KO s); Medina is 15-16 (11 KO s).
Heavyweight Emad Ali of New York stopped Kelsey Arnold of Lexington, Ky. in the first round of a scheduled four. Referee Joey Lupino stopped the fight at 2:39. Ali is 3-0, 3 K Os; Arnold is 1-4-2.
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