Did Dirrell totally outclass Abraham for most of the fight be4 the Illegal shot?

Sauerland Events and the European media did an outstanding job with Abraham. They took a very limited slugger, and through careful match making, and the power of the press, created a monster of mythical proportions.

From the time Abraham knocked out Miranda in their rematch, right up to the Dirrell fight, Arthur was extremely over rated. The schooling Dirrell layed on him brought most people back down to earth.

 

He kept him at bay yes , AA starts so slow and thinks he'll just be able to knock his opponent out every fight . Dirrell boxed very well, Abraham began to come on strong at the end and land some more power shots. Had him hurt a couple times.. And although AA hit dirrell when he was down, Dirrell is somewhat to blame, I have seen him do this in several fights, a guy has him cornered on the ropes and suddenly he "slips" , he did this against Froch .

 

Yes, beat the **** out of him simple and plain.

 

He was 7 to 8 rounds down...how much more one sided could it have been? I mean he beat the living dog **** out of AA, simple as that, I can't believe anyone would even try and spin it any differently.

 

Lol..."how he fights" getting the **** beat out of him and knocked down for the first time in his career is "how he fights". That's strange because he's never used the "I'm gonna get put on my ass" strategy before...

 

Abraham was outclassed and being schooled for most of the fight.

 

Dirrell was whipping him. He had a perfect game plan. And part of that game plan was obviously built around building a big lead on the cards and then try to stay out of danger. Smart plan.

Abraham fought by his book, even though it was bound to bite him in the ass eventually, as he stepped up in class.

It's not stupid to try to avoid the big punch in the later rounds when you know that's your opponents only hope and he is a big puncher.

 

put a poll up.

 

I gave every round to Dirrell.

 

You can't be serious. Don't you know how to score a round? I mean round 10 was clearly Abraham round. I suggest you watch that round again.

If you can't see that round as an Abraham round, then you clearly shouldn't start a judge career.

 

I got to say that Dirrell outboxed Abraham in the early rounds. Abraham has trouble with slick and speedy fighters like Dirrell. He never boxed someone as slick as Dirrell. That the main reason he got outboxed.

Abraham got the wrong gameplan and he was losing.

Abraham did get round 8 in my eyes, then Dirrell got round 9 then Abraham scored a KD in round 10.

So I gave 2 rounds to Abraham and 8 rounds to Dirrell.

So its 97-91 to Dirrell for me.

 

As far as I can remember, Abraham won rounds 3, 8, and 10.

 

AA has never needed a KO going into the championship rounds and although he starts slow, he never waits till round 9 to do so. Thing is, AA couldn't do anything. Late in the fight AA knocked dirrell down with a shot that wasn't called a knock down (10th). Even that knockdown was an arm punch. AA was throwing nothing but Arm punches late in the fight in fear of being countered by dirrell even when he was pressing. AA looked better the more dirrell started to move because that is the Dirrell that AA trained for (running dirrell). AA really was never ready for an agressive dirrell and his people can't even come up with any insight into what happened in the fight. They didn't know what to do and he had never been in the ring with someone like dirrell ever. After the fight, they never went into details about what went wrong for the fight because they knew the only thing that went wrong was that they were fighting a far superior talent to AA and what AA has faced. They have no strategic answers because they know that dirrell is/was that good for those first 8 rounds.

It was a masterfull schooling period. Never seen a top fighter so confused, embarrassed and fustrated. AA had flat out embarrassment written all over his face. AA is so mentally ****ed from that dominant performance that his ass in up in aerobics classes because that's how unsure of himself he is. Everyone knows it's not his legs that make him the great fighter he is and it never will be.

 

He outboxed him; he didn't outclass him.

He was winning; he wasn't dominating.

These things have a tendency to get blown out of proportion.

He wasn't dominating or outclassing Abraham any more than Abraham himself was dominating or outclassing Taylor prior to the KO.

In both cases, the ultimate winner was winning clearly - but hardly making the other man look like an amateur.