I give Dirrell the credit he deserves, but the "Dirrell knocks AA down" thing seems a bit far-fetched. Yeah, AA landed on his butt. No, he wasn't hurt at all and other referees might not even give the count for it.
His legs were gone yet he was moving as he had been doing the whole fight. :rofl Abraham gets his ass whooped worse in a rematch. Its not like he's gonna change his style, Dirrell is always gonna whoop him.
i really dissliked dirrell after the froch fight and he came off as a general ***** in the 360 shows but i agree with everything he said there. i thought dirrell showed heart and it was exciting fight, shame it ended the way it did but it WAS a dq.
He fell twice...in the same corner. You could see his foot slip. He fell because of his lateral movement...he stop on a dime and pulls back the other direction. That requires a lot of traction.
Exactly man i mean god damn he only need 1 freaking round to go. Dirrell could easily dance away until the decision in which he only needed 1 more round. This is a big fight in a supersix tournament on showtime with a whole world is watching but he's going to fake by being ko while he was down? lol Like i said it doesn't make any sense.
Not only have I watched the fight I know Dirrells tactics while in the ring. And if you had bothered to watch the fight you'd know he had been setting Abraham in that corner the whole fight. Infact in the 9th he catches Abraham with a mean left hook to the face out of that corner. Its basically what Mayweater was trying to position Hatton for in that fight. He too was moving to corners throughout the fight. Its a perfect countering location and up to that point Abraham had not been able to land a punch against Dirrell against the ropes anyway. Btw, why didnt you make note of the fact he slipped in that very same corner twice? Then you just dont have a very high boxing IQ. You were obviously swayed by the tenth and got giddy. Where as if you watched the 11th you'd see Dirrell was once again asserting control until the DQ.
AA was starting to get wild. People see this as his inevitable win. I see it as good countering opportunities for Dirrell to worsen the cut on AA and win a stoppage. That point could well be the difference between him making the next round or not.
Wishful thinking. Abraham had a good 10th because the ringside doctor had closed his cut and given him a rest after the beating he was taking. A wild fighter that cant cut off the ring had very little chance of a miracle last second KO.
Okay -- I will no doubt get flamed for this post, but the guys who know me on here know that I do not really give a **** about that. The real reason Andre Dirrell made Arthur Abraham look bad is because Abraham is simply not that good. He has had the same exact style, and the same flaws and bad habits for most of his career. He has not improved one iota since the Ikeke fight. Prior to Arthur's entrance in the super six his best opponent was Edison Miranda, and AA went life and death with the exact same version of Miranda that Pavlik ran right the **** over the top of. Arthur Abraham's so called "title reign" at 160 was a carefully manufactured marketing gimmick. He made ten defenses, and other than Miranda, everytime a significant threat came along, Team Abraham found a way to side step that threat. He avoided Zuniga, and fought the great Elvin Ayala, even though Zuniga was the rightful mandatory. (How the hell they got away with that has always been a complete mystery to me.) When he had the opportunity to fight Pavlik, Sauerland demanded a $2 million dollar guarantee. Abraham won a vacant title that Jermain Taylor vacated. The only reason AA was even in that fight was because Winky turned it down. Arthur ended up fighting Ikeke, and Ikeke's best win to date was a shot to **** Emmett Linton. AA made his first title defense against a guy who was coming off a TKO loss to Raymond Joval! Next up -- a welterweight who lost to Ouma at 154, and got sparked by a 19-10 journeyman. As soon as Abraham took on a legit threat in Edison Miranda, Arthur got his face mangled, Miranda got jobbed, and Team Abraham went back to fighting feather fisted prospects and little known club fighters. THAT is the truth about Arthur Abraham. Go ahead and flame away, but in so doing, at least TRY to tell me what the hell this guy ever did that made people think he was some kind of invincible monster!