POLL: Arthur Abraham: Motives for the Punch

You've cooled off I see.

 

Not really. I think that under the same circumstances, in a fight AA was winning, he wouldn't throw that punch. He was frustrated, desperate, and looking to hurt Dirrell any way he could, and to hell with the rules. He made a **** poor choice in the heat of the moment, but it WAS a choice.

 

At moment of punch, Dirrell's right knee off canvas and Arthur's right eye somewhat obstructed....that would be my case for arguing Arthur thinking it was legal at that moment without malicious intent...shitty ending to a good fight...glad to see the Matrix take the W

 

this for sure

 

Its hard to gauge a motive when it happens at .0001 second, it's more of his instinct rather than anything. You lots are over analyzing this ****.

 

Nice gifs. Some people act like Dirrell was some kind of victim but he was not. He is a dirty fighter.

 

at .0001 seconds, a guy doesnt have time to decide to throw an underhanded punch aimed at about 2.5 feet high.

 

Direll did not hit hanshaw while he was downroll, AA is the only dirty fighter here, I don't remember if a fighter in recent time, Roy Jones comes to mind, even though he thought AA's punch was worse then his "punche'S", is as demonized as AA. He got what he deserved but off the top of my head I remember 5 fights where fighters were hit much more BLATANTLY after the bell but dont get the negativity AA is getting.
AA winning the super six is going to be the sweetest revenge:happy

 

I think he wasn´t sure and made the wrong choice in a very short amount of time.
When you are heated up in this stage of a fight and your only chance is a KO, you try to took your chances even if your not 100% sure.

AA paid for this wrong choice with a DQ.

 

It utterly idiotic to say he purposefully threw the punch for whatever reason. Boxers know the penalty and I don't think Pac or even Roy threw on purpose to take unfair advantage or get DQ'd, and Jones' two punches were more serious. I'm in the "heat of the night" group, Abraham was getting to Dirrell, clearly knocked him down in the 10th, a jab helped Andre's slip to be worse in the 11th, and Abraham got overexcited and landed one too much. He paid for if very hard: disgraced himself with a serious illegal blow and robbed himself of the chance to get at least try to get Dirrell out in the last 1,5 rounds when Andre was tiring. The DQ is just, but don't come up with "motives for his punch", he just simply never realized Dirrell was down, because he's not the type to cheat himself out or DQ himself out of a fight he was closing hard.

 

I agree with the above. In real life these things happen in a flash. On tv it looks like forever. it isn't.

 

Instinct and heat of the moment. I don't think he saw Dirrell on the floor, paused and thought to himself "hit him, hurt him and get yourself DQ'd".

 

x3

 

Well, Boo, there is indeed some reason in you after all.

A completely correct post.


That's exactly what happened.

 

I'm not sure he threw the punch instinctively,he clearly gives himself room and lines the shot up before he throws it.
I'm siding with Boo here (yes it happens sometimes) he was obviously frustrated/desperate and made a bad decision in the heat of the moment.
AA had zero success in the fight untill that point and maybe just took a "chance" in desperation ?
Had he shown any remorse after the fight i don't think we'd still be disscussing it,but his ring interview left a bad taste in my mouth.