Andre Dirrell back on August 1st. Leaves 50 cent and is back with Haymon

Did you think I thought Dirrell had been locked away inventing a time machine during his absence from the ring? lol. Not only does he obviously look much younger in that video, but it also says it took place in 2001 in the title, too.

And wouldn't that make him 18 years of age? Either way, whether he was 17 or 18 he still got battered from pillar to post and stopped in two rounds with big gloves and headgear on by a feather fisted Khan victim.

Yes, he won every round against Stevens, but he was so intimidated by Stevens' power that he clocked up faster speeds running backwards around the ring for the entire fight than Usain Bolt does running forwards.

This is what Harold Lederman had to say about that fight: "This is the worst fight I have seen in my life''

Here's a few excerpts from an article about it.


'Lou DiBella, who promotes Stevens, had promotional options on Dirrell in the event that he won. But DiBella was so disgusted by the way Dirrell fought, he doesn’t plan to pick up the option and said he doesn’t want to ever have Dirrell on one of his cards again. – Dan Rafael, June 19, 2007


“Worst of the worst” is appropriate for Dirrell-Stevens. If Ali-Frazier I was the Fight of the Century, then Dirrell-Stevens was the Blight of the Millennium. Although I often like to review a fight round by round, I will save you the displeasure in this instance. Here, practically word for word, is a transcript of my notes of watching round 1:

Dirrell circles, Stevens punches air

Right hand by Dirrell

Dirrell retreats

Left hook by Stevens

Dirrell retreats

Dirrell circles, Stevens chases, nothing happens

Crowd boos

That was what stood out to me watching the round. That’s it. Repeat that little borderline-poetic series of lines another nine times, add some extra boos in the later rounds, and that, my friends, is the whole fight. Dirrell had no interest in engaging with Stevens and Stevens was too unskilled to do anything about it. Great fights emerge from unpredictability and huge shifts in momentum. Dirrell-Stevens was as predictable and monotonous as two trained, skilled men punching each other in the face could possibly be. If anything, upon second viewing the fight was even worse than its terrible reputation.

Dirrell gets the lion’s share of the blame and deservedly so. While Stevens played his own role in the suckfest, it was involuntary. He simply could not counter Dirrell’s strategy. Dirrell, meanwhile, dictated the pace and nature of the fight from the first bell to the last. Possessing a seven-inch height advantage and far superior speed, Dirrell could have done his Running Man routine for the first few rounds and then, when it was clear to everyone in the building that Stevens was a limited guy who couldn’t touch Andre, he could have unloaded his arsenal on a softened foe. Instead, as late as the ninth round Dirrell ran over two full laps around the ring without pausing or throwing a single punch at Stevens. That is commitment to awfulness.'


There's no doubt in my mind that Martin Kristjansen stole Dirrell's soul on that fateful Novemeber night in 2001.

 

Here's Angel Dirrell hitting one of his opponents while they were down.

7:06 mark

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Dirrell beat Golovkin by a solitary point (15-14) in a USA vs Kazakhstan duel that took place in the USA.

National pride was on the line. I smell robbery.

Therefore, Khan still>>>>Dirrell & Golovkin>>>>Dirrell

And

Oleg Mashkin W 3:0 Andre Dirrell

Golovkin W RSCI-2 Oleg Mashkin

Therefore, Golovkin>>>> x2 >>>> Dirrell

Also, Dirrell ran from Curtis Stevens like a thief in the night. He was absolutely scared out of his wits of him. Golovkin Wrtd 8 Stevens. Golovkin didn't just beat Stevens so bad his corner had to pull him out, he also gets extra points for doing this did this to him. He hit him so hard he made him have an epiphany live on HBO.


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So therefore, Golovkin>>>> x 2 >>>> x3 >>>>Dirrell