How did AA manage to win a world title?

Well, he was always a paper champion, although a good paper champion by today's standards. He didn't do anything particularly distinctive at 160. Still, there's no shame in losing to Dirrell, and that's no reason to dump the guy.

 

What do you expect from the average american fan ***** ? Not much. Really.

 

this is the dumbest thread ever. I mean, how the **** can you say that ****. Being a championship level boxer is not only limited to skill. Conditioning, the mental aspect, heart, stamina... Put on a pair of ****ing gloves and try it for once.

 

Because there are so many titles floating around in boxing these days, you just have to be above average and have a good promoter.
Put him in the 1960s middleweights he'd be lucky to even get a title shot and hold onto a top 10 ranking.

Direll impressed me against Froch, if I'm honest. I thought he won that.

And Abraham got the job done by KO is so many fights, you had to look past the fact that his style sucks.

Direll I think has a ton of talent, and I think he can take a punch pretty well, and this was an improvement on his Froch effort, BUT I dont think he has a great mentality. He acts like he's an 18 year-old fighter, looks a bit nervous and he's actually stronger than he believes himself to be.

Abraham's mentality sucks a bit too.
He's a tough guy but he complains about non-existent low blows every ten seconds, and he either fouled himself out on purpose, or he's just a nasty easily frustrated thug and that doesn't help him.

 

That's because you're an ape that knows nothing about Abraham. He won a world title knocking the **** out of Ikeke in a fight he was a huge underdog when Ikeke was considered P4P stuff. Just take a look at his record and how many fights he has to get a better idea how quick he stepped up in his career to earn a world title shot. When a puncher fights a boxer the fight will look ugly for both but more for the puncher since he's the one doing the stalking, if you need me to tell you that then you're an uninformed ****** trolling with this thread. The funniest of all is you have your father Zab Judah in your avatar as you type this. Let me guess, you're a ghetto beast?

I guess you're also one of the highly educated gurus who also believes that it's a perfect decision for Abraham to consider retirement and surely there are many here that agree or already posted that they think it's the best choice. If you or these people are hoping/expecting Abraham to sign up and work where you do, the alley selling stolen radio, then he won't.

 

Well -- since no one answered the actual question, I guess I will. "How did AA manage to win a world title?"

After Tylor beat Hopkins he vacated the IBF title so he could rematch Bernard instead of fighting a shitty mandatory. The Wright/Soliman fight was an eliminator to fight for the vacant title, and Wink won. The IBF offered Winky Wright and somebody else a shot at the vacant title, but Winky didn't want it. He wanted a fight with Jermain.

The IBF got down the list a ways and found that Arthur Abraham and Kingsley Ikeke both had blood pressure, a heart beat, and were available. They fought and Arthur won. Ikeke's best win to date was a shop worn version of Emmet Linton, and to this very day Abraham has never been in the ring with a reigning world champion, let alone beat one.

 

Beacause the 160 lb division is as bad as the HW division and he was a monster (size & strengt wise) @ 160 , watch his fights @160 , a lot of them he gets outboxed and bully's his way and scores with power punches and gets TKO's or with the lesser fighters apply's his brute force strength from the start and gets decisions .

And lets give him some credit , its not like he cant box , he can box as much as he has needed to , to get where he is .

 

You make it sound like this is unusual with top fighters. It's not even close. Miguel Cotto, an elite fighter, had three title reigns in two weight classes. Do you know how many reigning world champions he defeated in that time? None. Not in all those title fights across two weight classes. This is nothing unusual. It is not a strike against Abraham.

 

Well -- to be fair to Cotto -- Clottey was unjustly stripped by . . . . . wait for it . . . . . .






THE IBF!


And there really is no comparison between Cotto's resume and AA's. Cotto lost some fights, but the man fought everybody that mattered, and he fought them WHEN they mattered. Abraham fought a steady stream of guys like Shannon Taylor, LuJaun Simon, Elvin Ayala, et, and he did it over the course of 10 title defenses. Rubio, Ornales, David Lopez, Zuniga, and many others would be a big step up compared to most of Abraham's title defenses.