The Super Six Tournament troubles.

It provides quality matchups in pretty much every fight. Its good for the sport. Notice how many times you mentioned Dirrell in your comments.

 

Gary Shaw said Dirrell took a urine test on entering the hospital

 

The whole thing is as bent as a bottle of crisps. This is inevitable when there are several promoters and fighters working together, all with their own agenda. So far, it has been a missed opportunity to restore some popularity and credibility to boxing.

The interest in this event from casual fans is marginal at best. It should have been promoted better. Here in the UK, the fights are only shown on some cobbled-together PPV channel which nobody has heard of.

 

I think what he actually meant was Dirrell pissed himself!!!:yep

 

Regardless of his reaction the DQ was not his fault. But to me he did look gassed and I seriously do question how badly hurt he was.

 

There's no advertising for it here in the UK, it's something Sky Sports or the BBC should definitely have latched on to. There's never any advertising for fights unless it's shoddy PPV's thrown together by Sky.

That's why Boxing is lacking in popularity, especially here in the UK where there isn't enough exposure for the sport.

 

Upsets and controversies absoltely ROCKED boxing boards. The weekends of Taylor/Abraham-Dirrell/Froch, Kessler/Ward and Abraham-Dirrell packed these forums as if Mayweather or Pacquiao were fighting, though not great fights but unexpected results and national/continental/fan rivalries brought the heat.

What we learned from the Super Six:
- it's totally unscripted and wide open
- styles makes fights, and everyone might lose before round robin stages are over, the variety of styles, strengths and weaknesses even things out beautifully
- unpredictability - odds are nothing more than speculation, things get decided in the ring, and odds are being revised all the time
- hometown advantage is a serious thing
- fouls and "expanded rules" are present
- fighters and promoters are emotionally very involved
- Super Six is world-wide and HUGE! Then again, it has a massive following, makes fans pick a fighter (or two) to support and defend, the crowds are good, the ratings are very nice
- the tournament system is working in boxing
- Super Six is too long however, something like 10-rounders with the final being a 12-rounder for the world titles would be better, the shorter the fight the shorter the rest and the camps, therefore the shorter the time between fights - better for the tourney's fluidity!
- injury is a regular issue and probably the biggest setback
- Fight Camp 360 kicks 24/7's ass!

 

Overall the Super Six is a great idea. Styles makes fights. That's a given. But refs also makes fights to some extent. This first version of Super Six has been haunted by bad calls and refereeing. Dirrell-Froch was a clear DRAW. It was dreadful to watch from a spectators point of view. I would have liked the ref to address Dirrell with a message about figthting instead of running. Abraham-Dirrell should have been a NO-CONTEST based on the acting by Dirrell and the illegal "KO" punch by Abraham. Kessler-Ward had so much "foul play" (headbutts-holding-elbows-armbutts), besides the otherwise great display by Ward, that the ref should have changed the course of the fight long before Kessler's face was messed up. Point being, that for this tournament to be a success, the refs chosen have to do a job more in line with what we see as spectators.

 

The super six is the most talked about thing in boxing after manny/pbf. This is from 6 fighters all of which were pretty much unknowns. Its been a complete success so far imo

 

It is a total success - look at the potential semi final matches which would have huge hype due to previous bouts -

Ward v Kessler
Froch v Dirrell
Abraham v Dirrell

any of those 3 would be excellent semis. and we are only 4 fights in with 5 more to go in the group stages.

this super 6 forces a group of top fighters to all face each other and we know that most will lose at least one fight cause there are so many factors involved - sytles, home advantage, titles. etc.

excellent - I can't wait for Froch v Kessler and Ward v Green, I think there will be some more shocks yet.

 

The Europeans arent winning like they were supposed to.


Thats whats wrong with the tournament for many.

 

Recover from what?? AA and Sauerland's whining? Who cares about that, irrelevant.

The tournament has always been scheduled to complete at the end of 2011 and remains on pace to do so.