How did AA manage to win a world title?

Yet he KTFO Dirrel with ease with literally the first clean punch he landed in the fight.


Talk about getting hometown treatment.




Andrey

 

I think with someone lacking the hand and foot speed of Dirrell would have been in trouble. Abraham is certainly one dimensional, but against most fighters that dimension is sufficient to cause some fairly brutal effects.

 

what you're saying doesn't exactly make Dirrell out to be a world beater now does it?

 

Probably because he's a pretty good fighter. He's a very small super middleweight, and unlike most fighters at 160 who typically stand in front of you and want to trade, Andre Dirrell was a really bad style matchup for him. He's much taller, rangier, vastly more athletic and showed a mental fortitude in this fight that he had failed to show in his career and had a rock solid gameplan.

Even having said all that, there was still a feeling that Abraham could have pulled it out before his dumb mistake.

 

Dirrell is very gifted athletically. The only question was his mentality.

AA is a very good fighter in his own right and was coming on in the latter rounds.

 

He wins by knocking people out.
Sometime it is pretty hard to do when the opponent is falling down all night to avoid getting hit.
But he finally got that coward ****.
Good job.

 

You're an idiot. Styles make fights. How many times do people have to say that before everyone is on board? Billions? Trillions?

 

So by your logic Dirrell should get zero credit, right?

You fail. Abraham is a warrior and has shown he is world class. He came up against a very good fighter tonight who style wise was all wrong for him.

 

A Bazillion!!!!!

 

Abraham's footwork has always been woefully pathetic, ring IQ average, but he's tough as hell and can punch. That can go a long way in this game. Alot of fighters far shittier than Abraham have won "world titles."

 

Styles make fights. Dirrell was always going to give Abraham problems.

Whilst Dirrell was well on top, Abraham was always looking dangerous. It wasn't as one sided as the scorecards/stats suggest.

For me... that's what I found fascinating about this fight. You had Dirrell boxing beautiful, but Abraham given a sniff, well who knows....

 

A Brazillian?

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We were talking about AA today at the gym, and how he put on a clinic on "how not to box".

Amazing he's won so many fights with that style.