Kessler demands Fair treatment for Froch

Exactly.
Too many die hard Dirrell fans that can't appreciate that it was close. And that running and clinching excessively tends to count against you when judges are judging.

Also, Froch landed clean and effective punches in the clinch (an ability he has that many others lack).... there's no non-arbitrary reason to not consider those punches in the final punch stat. They're legal shots. When you add those punches to the punch totals Froch got the win he deserved.

 

No way.
If punches land they count.
Call Froch a drunken street brawler - then don't recoil in shock when people say Dirrell fought like a coward for the majority of that fight.

Again - tally all of the legal shots. Those rounds were Dirrell did more clinching than anything else were the same rounds where Froch was connecting good shots in the clinch. Legal shots, fair play, sound decision.

Tough luck....

 

I think Dirrell deserved to win but recognize that it was an ugly fight, and that Dirrell did a lot to rob himself of the victory, so he has only himself to blame for losing. That said, half of what Froch landed in the clinch was rabbit punches and other half was pitter patter crap. He was wholly ineffective fighting out of the clinch. If he were good at it he'd have actually done some damage to Dirrell, since they clinched so much and Dirrell was wide open every time he initiated one.

Froch won because he was at home and Dirrell fought ugly for a lot of the fight. That's all.

 

Good honest guy Kessler is. After this fight i will continue to support him.