First 4 rounds of Jermain Taylor vs Arthur Abraham

I've consistently picked Abraham in this one. There's nothing ambiguous about it :huh

Dirrell has never shown the ability to fight the kind of disciplined fight he would need to win here. He has never so far in his career shown the kind of balls that he needs here. That, as I said in a previous thread, is why Abraham has to be favourite. Abraham can win by being the fighter we have seen before. Dirrell can win, but he needs to be the fighter that he has shown the potential to be, but never actually has been as yet.

 

oh ok cause I thought you said Abraham "does nothing great" but I guess now he has excellent defense and explosive power.

 

I think your viewing of Abraham has been fairly limited...

 

:yep

 

Of course not. Did you understand the point I was making, though?

 

ya i misread your post.

I think Dirrell wins a decision too.

 

No argument there. Balls deep, in fact.

Not sure who you're confusing me with here?

 

I picked Froch by stoppage in that one. Fight in many respects didn't play out really how I expected (though I don't know that anybody really called how it would go), although some of the points I picked up pre-fight did turn out to be accurate. And you?

Apart from that, I criticised Froch for years for not stepping up his competition, ridiculed him for constantly calling out Joe Calzaghe without having done anything, picked Taylor to beat him and have been predicting Kessler to school him for years. Don't really think I qualify for the Froch nuthuggers club, sorry.

I've also posted here for four years without once feeling the need to hide behind a new alias. And you?

 

There's no real comparison between Dirrell and a shot Taylor. I doubt Jermain won the first few rounds. It appears that way because he threw more but most shots were to the gloves and didn't count. Dirrell needs to study some Kalambay/Mccallum 1 for some real defensive footwork because admitingly AD did run from Froch at times. Dirrell can pull it off but he has to stay focus and not get too confident.