Dirrell, Froch, and The Great Train Robbery

Terrible robbery ! Blatant and obvious !

 

Total hyperbole! It was far from a huge robbery. Considering what happeded to Dirrell, subsequently getting short circuited by AA then avoiding Ward, the right guy got the decision.

 

Dirrell's "ring generalship"

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Froch won fair and square.

 

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Dirrell got beat

 

I never had to rewatch that fight after I saw it live. There was no way Froch won more than 4 rounds in that fight. I'm not a superfan of either, so I say this from a more neutral perspective.

ANdre was the ring general for the majority of that fight. The only turbulent period he had at all in that match was when Carl Froch was employing his rough house tactics on Andre (i.e. wrestling him to the ground,) which might've gotten Dirrell a little bit off his game and required him to reset.

But for the most part, he won the majority of the early and mid rounds with a better workrate, more accurate punching and a good jab. I thought since the fight was in Froch's backyard that maybe they'd rob Andre and give him a draw, but instead they went for the full theft.

 

At the time I felt the fight was very close. I gave the fight to Froch as he was the aggressor. Direll didn't seem at all interested or engage in the fight for a huge amount of it. I feel Direll could have won if he had just been more active and thrown more punches and been positive. With the fight being in the UK too Dirrell's negative approach doing very little work is not going to win him the fight. I felt Froch performed poorly, however. It was a frustrating watch - as Dirrell's fights were around that time.

 

That fight is the reason why Froch wants to fight Ward in Nottingham. He knows he can win fights there which he really lost. That's probably the only way he can beat Ward anyway, although still unlikely, only not "absolutely impossible".

 

You should rewatch it than. Andre was fully engaging Froch, constantly beating him to the punch, exhibited good footwork with moving around the ring. He was tense at times, no doubt, but he was clearly winning most (if not all) of the early rounds with his precision punching, defense and jab rate.

Once Froch started utilizing some illegal tricks that probably should've received an infraction from the judge, than ANdre slowed down a bit. I would say that was around the 7th or 8th round. I might rewatch it again this weekend just for the hell of it, but as far as I can remember that fight wasn't that close.

 

I think Dirrell's personality made some people not like him. Froch didn't land much at all. Sure Dirrell was roughed around by Froch, but it isnt wrestling. That was one of the worst decisions I've seen.