Germans complain about Super Six scandal

abraham and kessler was never going to win this competition and nor will froch. it'll be one of the americans due to their styles. their styles goes well against these come forward guys. probably ward wins it.

 

dirrell not getting a warning for hitting low, the other kd by dirrell, not getting in between the fighters after dirrell went down for the last time,

The worst had to be the time when abraham and dirrell were fighting in the corner, and the ref stopped the action, and made them go into the center of the ring... That was the most bizzare call ive ever seen.... They werent even clinching, they were fighting :huh:huh:huh

 

That one is easy. Dirrell was making AA miss. AA wasn't smart enough to go to the body instead. Out of frustration AA tried to put his glove out and to keep Dirrell from doing 'his Matrix thing'. That was illegal and the ref stepped in.

 

I rarely seen that get called, and fighters do it all the time....

 

Most of Dirrell's shots where legal, I do remember that. I'm going to have to watch the fight again because the only really bad officiating mistake I remember was the Abraham KD

 

really:huh holding a guy still with an extended glove gets called everytime I see it.

 

:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

 

I think Ward could win it but Ward will be the only american who will reach the semifinales

 

let`em complain,they`re just a bunch of sore losers: be it soccer or boxing,they cant accept defeat.

but it wont help anyway,abraham will lose to froch and ward as well

 

i like abraham's chances against froch but not against ward

 

And you used to hold them both in high esteem ?

 

no, he's just hyper glad they are taking **** because they gave such a bad name to Pavlik and Arum...

 

In order to understand why Sauerland is so pissed off, you have to go back to the very beginning of the so called "Super Six." This is Sauerland's baby. His very own brain child. Sauerland set this tournamet up, and he set it up his way. Showtime merely provided a media outlet, and the financial backing.

When it came time to choose the participants, of course Abraham and Kessler would participate. They are Sauerland fighters, but you can't have a tournament with only two fighters. He had to find at least 4 more combatants in order to give it the look and feel of a real tournament.

It would seem that a first round Pavlik/Abraham fight would have been a natural. A fight that would virtually guarantee good ratings on opening night. Nope: Sauerland events did not invite Pavlik to participate. Instead they invited two time Pavlik victim Jermain Taylor; a man who had lost 3 or his previous four fights, and been knocked out in two of those fights. Sure enough, the first fight out of the gate was Abraham/Taylor.

Considering the controversial ending to the first Bute/Andrade fight, it would also seem that a Bute/Andrade rematch would be another natural for the opening round. A TV ratings hit that would do a great live gate. Even though Bute and Andrade were both top ten men in the division at the time, and Bute held the IBF title, Sauerland Events ignored both.

Sauerland ignored the IBF champ, but he did invite Andre Ward. Ward's best win was a damaged version of Edison Miranda; a man Pavlik damn near beat the black off of. Ward had never even been in the ring with a top ten guy, let alone beat one. Sure enough, Kessler's first fight turns out to be Andre Ward.

That brings us to Andre Dirrell. God bless him, I like this kid. However, when the tournament started, his best wins were Oganov and Hanshaw. Zuniga handed Oganov his ass long before Dirrell got to him, and Hanshaw does not have a single significant win.

And finally, there's Carl Froch. This guy is so open to right hands that a KO win for Kessler and/or Abraham seemed like a foregone conclusion before the tournament started.

Sauerland fully expected that his two fighters would waltz through to the final. His plan came together perfectly with hand picked opponents who would make his two boys look like a pair of invincable beasts. He had no idea that Ward and Dirrel would cause him so many problems, but the two young Americans rapidly became the proverbial thorn in his side, and now he is pissed.

 

^ Potential Post Of The Year material.

Doesn't get any better than that, booradley.

:happy:happy:happy

 

Froch is open but he beat Pascal (now LHW champ) and KO'd taylor. I agree they didn't see the slicker americans posing a problem.