AA mystifies me

Its not that he's scared but more so flustered because he only has 1 style of fighting ..Blame his corner ..I see the same thing with Pavlik ..Once they can't intimidate an opponenet with their power they have no back up plan ..No real boxing to fall back on if their bread and butter fails ..

 

Maybe his fight against Taylor was the everest of his motivation. Once he knocked him out, he lost the will to win.

 

He was fighting Andre Ward last night, not Edison Miranda.

 

Abraham just lost his self belief. He fell in love with his power, had a poor corner(Wegner will also lose Huck this year, bank on it.) He has real good power, a great chin but he just doesn't show any motivation or interest anymore in boxing. I think retirement is his next choice, cause Arthur as of right now, sadly, is just a Euro level SMW.

 

Yes and the point isn't whether he could have beaten Ward. Why isn't he trying anymore? He was trying against Dirrell, hit a lot of air, kept trying. If the fould hadn't happened, he would have either Ko'd Dirrell or lost swinging away until the last moment. Against Froch and Ward he never showed an urgency to win.

 

I think 168 is too much for him, he gets stopped in his tracks by Dirrell's Jab, and Froch's Jab has him flying back.

At Middleweight he wouldnt be pushed back that badly, but at 168 he probably lacks the strength.

 

body shots

 

He looked like he was trying an extremely hard. He just isn't very good. However, alot of people seem to think highly of him like "What was wrong with AA?" when clearly his opponents have alot to do with it. He tried to come hard & Ward proceeded to break him with good bodywork. AA just isn't very good.

 

I'll reference you back to a fight at MW between AA and Lujan Simon in early 2009

Simon implemented a game-plan focusing on body shots and AA was backing off a shitload. Gone was his supposedly indomitable will. Abraham won that fight but was very lackluster.

All Froch had to do was keep Abraham and bay with his powerful jab and bust up his midsection from time to time. Ward hurt Abraham with some stiff jabs to the body several times throughout the fight.

Kill the body, kill the will.

 

lack of stamina man, he just doesn't have it to go a full 12 rounds

 

When he gets frustrated you kind see his head drop, he was sulking from the 4th round on against Ward. he doesnt have the talent for a plan b and he is just not a bully at 168.

A Pavlik fight could be interesting, but other that i dont know what else is out there for him.

 

aa made to much money to fast and lost his hunger. and he still can't cope with his first loss to dirrell. every fighter reacts different after a loss. abraham is a guy who fights with confidence. dirrell took the first part of it and froch took everything what was left. he made 10 mil in 4 or 5 years. so it's more difficult to fight his whole heart out because you know, even if you lose everything will be good. some guys get soft with money