Help me decide a winner in Dirrell vs Abraham...

dirrell will capitalize on those early rounds and carve him up.... while the robot abraham is conserving his energy staying in his guarded shell and observing what dirrell does and his patterns... its going to look like how jermaine was doing... but dirrell knows not to get overconfident , tired out and sloppy/careless like jermaine got.

dirrell is however thinking of staying in closer to abraham to connect his jabs
dirrell is fast enough to dodge those powerful lunges

 

Hopefully he gains the warrior mentality, would be an early night for Arthur.

 

repeated hooks around that guard... angles and movement are key as well

arthur is only going to come after him like froch did in the later rounds when he thinks dirrell is gassed out. .... dirrell can still bob and weave when forced against the ropes and throw back like we seen

 

Dirrell is quite sloppy at times, he has plenty of defensive lapses. He beat Froch but he still got caught quite a bit, and Froch is much slower than Abraham and doesn't put punches together in combination as well.

Dirrell won't be getting in close with Abraham unless he is clinching, he will be moving and at range constantly, you can bet on that.

 

Abraham by BRUTAL KO and put an end to this american hype!!!

 

If Dirrell shows some balls this time out he has the tools to win this fight. I think he will and it will be Dirrell by a close decision.

 

i think dirrel has the right style to beat abraham.

funny enough i think fighting at home might be to direll`s disadvantage.

my reasoning is the right stratergy for direll to beat abraham is to be in and out, not throwing to much or going for the ko just win the first 4 rounds without burning to much energy and arthur will give them away anyway, then as the fight goes on keep up the stratergy and every time arthur comes forward , use his legspeed to step off to the side and not engage and make arthur reset and back to a few flurrys.

do this for the entire fight and he will win.

the reason fighting at home will hurt direll is that to fight this way he will stink the house out /the crowd will get on his back / and tv commentry will be chastising him/

because of these factors and direll feeling that he is under pressure to perform i do not know if he will follow the right blueprint to beat abraham.

if he does then he will get the descion, if he fights to the homecrowd and plants his feet and puts to much into the early rounds then abraham will come on strong and catch him in the second half.

it is a hard fight to call but i am tentaivley going with dirrel to fight to instructions and not to the crowd and win on points.

 

I tend to agree. In a close fight, Dirrell gets the nod due to home advantage and to keep the tournament result open.

 

AA is a warrior while Dirrell is not.

If Dirrell is able to lead on the scorecards long enough, all hell will break loose. AA by KO - and it will be impressive.

The other theory is that Dirrell runs away the whole fight and loses a UD.

 

I see Abraham punching the **** out of the back of his head and having point deductions

 

Dirrell decision.
Average fighters like Simon, Oral and Gevor, even when they got ko'd, troubled AA with basic movement and a decently well timed jab. Those guys stood right in front of AA or came at him when they got ktfo. Just like JT.
I just don't see Abraham catching Dirrell and I think Dirrell will frustrate AA enormously.
IF AA catches Dirrell with a good shot, well, then we know what will happen.

 

He will run away. But what if he lands more and cleaner punches while doing that?
It also depends on who the judges are..