Andre Dirrell "Tweets"

a doctor hasn't said he was having seizures or trembling that was a commentator....other wise i think ur right

 

Yeah I hear there are like two types. The "bounce your brain around" type and the "overload the nerves connecting the jaw to the head type". The second type you recover from pretty well. The first type not so much.

 

And he was seen partying by the pool in Vegas a couple days after.

 

:goodYes he did. Good to read that everything is good with him.

 

He manifestly had a concussion. A concussive blow resulting in a person being unconscious is by definition a concussion. That's what it is. You understand that?

Gary Shaw misspoke. He meant that MRI scans were "negative". Even that is barely meaningful as it only rules out severe neural trauma. Concussions do not leave "little marks" on the brain that can be seen by a doctor. You understand this, right?

 

a second? my boy, we are talking here about milliseconds! Do you know how fast cell are firing and signal is traveling through synapses? Pleaseee...

 

you're out of your depth. The brain is a complex object and neural events can easily takes seconds to unfold, especially catastrophic insults like the one Dirrell experienced.

Ever heard someone say "I am going to faint" and then faint?

 

A chicken can live DAYS without a HEAD! Trust me, you can go for a second or two even if your lights are out...
Travis Walker recently was still punching WHILE he was falling down from a KO blow.
Every now and a gain you'll see a guy get hit with a straight and he'll cover up, take a step back, stand for a second, shake his head and suddenly he's laying face first on the ground unconscious, if you're never seen that happen you don't watch enough boxing. :bbb

 

and epilipetic seizures -- catastrophic neural events -- are often preceded by warning signs that predict their onset.

 

When you still throwing after getting hit it's because you've started the action before getting hit and it's on autopilot which is difficult to suppress if at all possible. Is that difficult to understand? Has nothing to do with traveling... walker was out and still throwing, but they more or less threw at the same time shots.

Delayed reaction are rather an exception than a rule, as you'll certainly know if you watch boxing. And if you have delayed reaction and are out, I'm pretty certain you won't behave like Dirrell did.

 

I ****ing hate Dirrel, I'm so disappointed he won this fight, though it should be nice to watch him get knocked out, even if it isn't legit.

 

So Andre went down and was thinking: "**** it, I've seen movies. I'll try and be really, super-duper convincing and convulse my legs incredibly rapidly. I've never tried this before, but lets give it a go in front of thousands of hometown fans and see what happens. Am I pouring it on a bit? I hope not. I hope the ref saw what happens and makes the right call. Gee, maybe on second thought I probably could have survived the last round and gone to the score cards. Oops, too late, I've already decided to fake a bizarre knockout and now I'm twitching my legs uncontrollably. Hey, this seems to be working! I'm pretty good at this. This ploy may just work!"

Now, be honest. If you were going to try such a stunt (who would try such a stunt besides European soccer players, incidentally) -- would you go maybe just lie down and roll over once or would you go the extra mile and start convulsing your legs. Be honest.

 

Had the punch not KO'd direll, would abraham still have been DQ'd?

 

One more thing, is there any precedent in Dirrell's more than 200 amateur fights and 19 professional bouts that would lead you to beleive he'd be capable of even attempting something so bizarre and ridiculous as faking a knockout? I mean, it's unprecedented -- don't you think something in his history would indicate that he was a very strange person, a lunatic even? Faking a knockout? Throwing in convulsions just for effect? Who does that?

And yet you earnestly believe that it is inconceivable that a guy who was kneeling down and is hit flush by a roundhouse from Arthur half-ape Abraham when he is not looking might actually have been knocked unconscious. Are you kidding?

If you're not kidding, then you deserve to be waterboarded.

 

is that a rhetorical or hypothetical question?