GGG vs. the Dirrell brothers @ 168

Sparks them both out cold. Andre is packing some grade A glass whiskers and he's a front-runner who crumbles all too easily when things aren't going his way. No way in hell he could stand up to Golovkin's aggression and two-fisted power. Golovkin would roll right over him like a steamroller.

Andre was

Stopped in the amateurs by a Danish pastry Amir Khan victim who couldn't smash a sandcastle with a baseball bat

Dropped heavily by a Mexican road sweeper named Alfonso Rocha in the pros

Dropped by Anthony Hanshaw although Dirrell's ref chose not to count it.

Dropped by Arthur Abraham whose KO percentage up at 168 is abysmal, again one of Dirrell's refs chose not to count it, he had no problem calling a bogus one for Dirrell earlier on in the fight though.

Badly hurt in the 12th round by Derek Edwards

Dropped x 2 against DeGale and was given 2 extended breaks to recover at the end of each round he was down in, the first being almost 90 seconds, the second still way too long.

Dropped by the soft hitting Blake Caparello who was suffering from jet lag

And he was so utterly terrified of Curtis Stevens power and aggression he spent the entire duration of the fight running backwards faster than Usian Bolt can run forwards.

"This is the worst fight I have seen in my life''

--Harold Lederman

Here's a few excerpts from an article about the fight

'Lou DiBella, who promotes Stevens, had promotional options on Dirrell in the event that he won. But DiBella was so disgusted by the way Dirrell fought, he doesn’t plan to pick up the option and said he doesn’t want to ever have Dirrell on one of his cards again. – Dan Rafael, June 19, 2007


“Worst of the worst” is appropriate for Dirrell-Stevens. If Ali-Frazier I was the Fight of the Century, then Dirrell-Stevens was the Blight of the Millennium. Although I often like to review a fight round by round, I will save you the displeasure in this instance. Here, practically word for word, is a transcript of my notes of watching round 1:

Dirrell circles, Stevens punches air

Right hand by Dirrell

Dirrell retreats

Left hook by Stevens

Dirrell retreats

Dirrell circles, Stevens chases, nothing happens

Crowd boos

That was what stood out to me watching the round. That’s it. Repeat that little borderline-poetic series of lines another nine times, add some extra boos in the later rounds, and that, my friends, is the whole fight. Dirrell had no interest in engaging with Stevens and Stevens was too unskilled to do anything about it. Great fights emerge from unpredictability and huge shifts in momentum. Dirrell-Stevens was as predictable and monotonous as two trained, skilled men punching each other in the face could possibly be. If anything, upon second viewing the fight was even worse than its terrible reputation.

Dirrell gets the lion’s share of the blame and deservedly so. While Stevens played his own role in the suckfest, it was involuntary. He simply could not counter Dirrell’s strategy. Dirrell, meanwhile, dictated the pace and nature of the fight from the first bell to the last. Possessing a seven-inch height advantage and far superior speed, Dirrell could have done his Running Man routine for the first few rounds and then, when it was clear to everyone in the building that Stevens was a limited guy who couldn’t touch Andre, he could have unloaded his ****nal on a softened foe. Instead, as late as the ninth round Dirrell ran over two full laps around the ring without pausing or throwing a single punch at Stevens. That is commitment to awfulness.'

Think the glass runs in the family too as Anthony was dropped heavily by a scrub (Andy Marvos 27% KO) who couldn't punch his way through cobwebs if he was wearing steel gloves.

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