**Abraham/Dirrell Round by Round**

Abraham is a piece of **** for that "he's a good actor" stuff, give me a break, guy was ****ed up.

 

I think Dirrell was acting, but **** arthur abraham. What a scumbag. Couldn't lose like a champion. Getting his ass schooled, acting like a ***** the whole fight, then hits Dirrell when he's down, and denies it during the replay when he has a chance to come clean. Childish ***** throwing a tantrum!

 

Luis Santana was a great actor. Im not so sure Dirrell acted this one but who knows.

 

If that punch didn't hurt Dirrell, he the chin of Hagler.

 

Stop with the acting comments, he could be in serious trouble and you'll end up regretting this ****.

Bless Dirrell, first and foremost lets hope and pray he can go home to his kids and family.

This was a good fight, brilliantly fought by Dirrell and I also felt Arthur was coming on as per usual, too bad this happened, I actually think Abraham was heading for the knockout win from behind. This is a tournament though, hopefully they can do it again, and again.. pray for Dirrell.

 

In real time, it looked like Abraham hit when Direll was down, and Direll got hurt but he acted a bit more hurt than he actually was to either penalize the rallying Abraham big time, or disqualify him. He gave a quick look at Arthur, and then seemingly decided to lay down and act really hurt.

But on the replays, it did look like a major, powershot to me, his head got smashed hard and maybe he did really get seriously hurt.

His on cam interview was weird, he still seemed out of it.

 

The shot was clean flush on the jaw.. Too bad he could not land hardly **** during the fight and got parked himself.

 

Tarver tells it like it is.. and he got animated about the **** and said it was most def dirty.. and DQable. I am riding with his outrage. On the replays it was a KO punch landed on a guy slipped up in Abrahams slip n slide intentionally greasy corner. **** them bitches.

 

I don't think the punch was intentional. I do think it was ****ed up the way Abraham acted after wards. All in all its pretty disappointing it was a good fight Dirrell was boxing beautifully but I still felt Abraham would rally and stop him. I hope Dirrell is ok.

 

My thoughts:

First of all, this is the first fight I've been anxious to see in a long while. As for the fight its self, technically Direrel should have had two KD's and Abraham should have had one. Abrahams was the most impressive of the three. Dirrel was totally outboxing Abe and Abe needed the KO. Abe might have got the KO but we'll never know.

Direll was down and AA hit him - the DQ is reasonable. Abes punch on Andre looke kind of grazing and one could make a case that Dirrel was faking, BUT nobody knows. Abe does have that kind of power. I'm not suggesting that Dirrel was faking and I hope he is OK.

Finally, kind of an exciting fight but a disappointing ending. Luckily, they could meet again in this tourny. I couldn't pick this fight. I was impressed by Dirrel (he is not a Malinaggi-he fights slick but has some muscle) but I thought AA might pull it out. I started watching boxing again around two years ago and I have to say that it is not perfect by a long shot. Controversies out the ying yang.

Dirrell might be the only guy who can beat AA in this tourny. Ward might be able to beat AA. I think it takes a great deal of speed to neutralize Abrahams power. I've never seen Green fight.

Enough with the slippery advertisments.

 

In real time, it did not look like a very big shot. Not much swing or leverage, and Dirrell did land a head-shot on Abraham from the 'down' position, less than a second before he got hit.

And it did look like he quickly figured out that he was ahead on the cards and getting closer and closer to being KO'd for real. And he gave the matter a second or so of consideration, and then sprawlwd out. Acting ?


Other possibility. The shot was maybe a lot harder than it looked. remember Wlad's shot on Chambers last week. That doidn't look super hard in real time, but it sent Chambers to sleep.

Sometimes there's a delayed reaction when hit in the head, which could account for the delay in sprawling.



AA did not intentionally foul, IMO. In the moment of the action and given that he just took a shot from Dirrell (who seems to go down a lot. Remember the Froch fight) who was on his way down, I believe he just didn't apply the breaks quickly enough. If Direll had been merely clipped, a warning or a one point deduction would have been in order.

However, when Direll stretched himself out and was unable to continue, regardless of whether real or faking, the ref had no other possible choice but to DQ Arthur.


I had it 96-92 for Dirrell at the time, with AA probably winning in the 11th.

( I counted the KD in round 10 as there was no doubt it was a KD)

Therefore, AA needed the KO.

We'll never know if he was going to get it. He made a huge error, intentionally or not, in hitting Dirrell when one knee was on the canvas.

And he paid for it with his "0".


Final result ( and a fair result, all things considered): Direll out boxed AA and had a wide lead when he won by DQ.

 

It was completely intentional, there was a big pause from the moment he slipped and was down to the moment AA decided "I'm gonna smack this guy" he knew well what he was doing. He was frustrated. Disgraceful stuff from him.

On the other hand, Dirrell wasn't knocked out either, look at the replays, after he gets hit he looks completely coherent and looks at the ref, also as he falls over he adjusts his upper body so he does not injure his arm falling over. Had he been KO'd he just would have went over in a heap immediately.

Both are guilty of classless acts, but AA is by far the worse of the two for what he did.

 

So, Dirrell instructed AA to hit him while he was down so he could take a dive?

Wouldn't it be more likely that AA was looking for a way out by doing it?

 

now we are left to wonder what couldve been

 

That's the way I saw it too. And Abraham made himself look worse with his demeanor afterwards. Its like he didnt realize there was something wrong with hitting a guy who had slipped and was down.