Dirrell, Froch, and The Great Train Robbery

Here's the boxrec summary.


In an exciting Showtime-televised fight which appeared as if it could go either way on the scorecards, Carl Froch remained unbeaten at 26-0 and retained his WBC super middleweight title by split decision over American challenger Andre Dirrell. Froch chased the southpaw Dirrell all night, and threw many punches 'into the wind' as the agile Dirrell constantly moved from side to side and slipped the majority of Froch's punches. Froch moved forward for all twelve rounds as the aggressor throwing many combinations, while Dirrell counterpunched extremely well and landed a number of powerful right hand leads. One point of controversy was that Froch frequently hit Dirrell behind the head, and was warned but not penalized by the referee. Dirrell was warned in the seventh, eighth and tenth rounds before the referee decided to take a point away from him for holding during the tenth. In round twelve, Dirrell was warned by the referee for hitting Froch behind the head, when in fact it was Froch that had just hit Dirrell behind the head. Without the point deduction, the bout would have been closer. Most of these rounds were quiet defensive gems, causing the crowd to boo the lack of action at the end of every round. At the end of round eleven, Dirrell's grandfather told him in his corner "You better knock Froch out because they ain't never gonna give us a decision here." But the hometown crowd was quiet during rounds, so scoring appeared fair. In the post-fight Showtime interview, the previously unbeaten Dirrell conceded he lost round twelve, but looked forward to fighting Arthur Abraham.

 

Lol "dirrell was warned when in fact it was froch who hit dirrell behind the head".....yup......even reading a summary u can tell dirrell was robbed......simply being an aggressor doesn't win a fight .......dirrell controlled the fight and made it his fight

 

This site I think has the official score cards so everyone can see what the judges thought.


http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/...ecards-and-punter-unhappiness-with-primetime/

It's not just their final score cards it's their round by round scoring it's worth a look!

 

It was CJ ross who helped them

 

Four rounds I can't give froch Four consecutive seconds of success

 

Froch for embarrasseD for 12 straight rounds. The only competitive times were between rounds, and those were lopaided too

 

dirrell whooped him 10x worse Than ward had