Froch vs Dirrell controversy thread

I'd like to see Dirrell run away from Abraham

 

notice how he's disappeared now..

 

Agree all the way. Didn't expected that Dirrell was that good. All the others 4 fighters will have there difficulty to win vs. Dirrell.

 

Look at the reaction of the crowd when Froch was doing something land or miss, they were all there just for him. Of course they would see it in his favor even if he lost by a bigger margin.

Even in Germany (Abraham-Taylor fight) the crowd would have been less biased I believe. It means nothing as far as the true result of the fight is concerned.

 

You will. AA and Dirrell are going to meet in Jan 2010. And if Dirrell was weary of Froch's shots, he will bring a getaway car to the AA fight.

It will not be a nice fight. But you do not win this tourney with running tactics. While Dirrell's skills and reflexes are pretty good, he needs more of the dedication he showed in the rounds 10-12.

 

Tarver said, depending on what the judges were looking for, he could see how Froch won the fight. He didn't say he scored it for Froch.

 

In Froch's hometown. An arena full of Froch fans who cheered every time his punches came within a foot of landing.
Nottingham, England at 3 A.M. on a saturday night - how many of these people were sober ?

Dirrell won it. And the ringside commentators called it that way on British TV too.

 

Saw this just now.. I don't think I could of worded it much better.. whether you agree or disagree with the decision you will agree somewhat with what is said.. Skip to around 6.50 as he analyses Taylor v Abraham first..

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVXyCmyWcwA&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

 

If you look at the upcoming fights its quite possible that both Taylor and Dirrell will finish the tournament with zero points and Frochs one win will get him into the semis. Even if Dirrell gets a point Froch will still go through ahead of him on the tie breaker because of the H2H result.

 

dirrell 7-5 -1

 

I had Dirrell by a point, and it seems like ringsiders and reporters are fairly split on their own decisions. That's the hallmark of a close, ugly fight that's hard to score moreso than an out and out robbery, and I think the split decision reflects that. Even a draw would've been acceptable if you don't mind scoring an even round.

The biggest key for both is to focus on moving forward- sulking over the loss or resting on laurels would be a recipe for disaster. If I'm either man, I look at that film and realize I've got miles of improvement ahead of me if I'm going to get past my second round opponent, which happen to be the two co-favorites, respectively.

 

Carl Froch looked like a toughman competitor last night. I can't believe how bad he appeared.

That said, Dirrell didn't want to fight and he did want to whine. The common term going around now is Andre fought a "negative" fight. That's probably a fair way to characterize it.

Both fighters were dirty, with Froch initiating the festivities. Froch made Sam Peter look like a guy who has never thrown a punch behind an opponent's ear with the way he targeted the back of Dirrell's head.

Froch won the fight on my card, 114-113. The deducted point (a total joke) cost him the bout.

Andre got a good lesson last night at what championship bouts are all about. Guys aren't going to fight nice and they will do whatever it takes to win, including mucking it up. Ask Bernard Hopkins.

Andre has a lot of talent. He is about 1,000,000 times more athletic than is Froch. If he can learn from his mistakes and grow from this setback, he could still make some real noise in the tourney.

 

Yeah - he is spot on. Also on the point that Direll could have won.

 

This guy is talking sense.
Clean punches, quantity and quality, is the bottom line.
Dirrell landed them, in greater quantity and greater quality. So that should be that.

Yes, it's hard to have much sympathy for Dirrell or call it an outright robbery, because of his overall performance. But he deserved it more than Froch, because he simply landed the punches. And both guys broke the rules anyway.

 

You have been here a while.

Is it really a surprise to you how little real boxing knowledge the average poster had?