Because that's the stereotype. See? You just asked the question, "why no outrage?" That's what people expect. More times than not whenever someone loses, that's the cry. Dirrell not only fought the first big fight of his career in a mature fashion, he also carried himself like a gentleman afterwords. Froch made an ass out of himself before, during, & after that fight. Even Froch's woman was fustrated with Dirrell's style. Froch fought someone that didn't tire out, stayed consistant, and outclassed his overrated british ass. And guess what? Dirrell's only fought 19 pro fights. Dirrell IMO was actually the more experienced of the 2 if you include his amateur backround, and it showed. Froch isn't technically good at anything. Dirrell made Froch look absolutely foolish coming after him. He connected with air & he was fustrated Dirrell wasn't fighting his fight. He had to go for fouls and Judo throws to try to ruin Dirrell's game plan but it didn't work. Froch is an assclown.
That guy has no shame in his face. And for anyone to say Dirrell was going backwards all night and Froch was the one coming foward trying to engage, well guess what? When you come foward and get countered damn near all night long, you're not winning. The counter puncher is. Just another disgusting example of a fighter getting robbed on the other guy's home turf. They robbed an undefeated fighter of a decision he deserved. Pathetic.
so why didnt Dirrell put some leather on his ass? Froch is the weakest champ at 168 and Dirrell fought like it was a sparring session....as little as froch did, andre did less........and going BACKWARDS doing less.....how do you take someones title like that? answer...you dont
Robbery, no. Bad decision, yes. Meaning that Dirrell won, but it wasn't a blowout. People conflate the issue by saying the fight was close. It was in the sense that the scores should have been close, but no way did Froch win more than 5 rounds.
Froch likes fighting someone he can trade with, everybodys already writing Froch off against Kessler, but I think he will shine in this fight as he can stand toe-to-toe, i dont necesserily think he will win, but I dont think Froch is happy fighting runners....which in all fairness Dirrell did, you cant hide the fact that Dirrell clinched like 14 times in one round either and for people on here to call it a hometown desicion is wrong, no british judges or ref, which cant be said for most british fighters fighting in the US.
Landed more and landed cleaner. How is that doing less? If you count walking forward with your hands at your waist, and missing a lot, doing something then Froch did more. Of course he could have cooked a pot roast or built a shed in the ring and he would have also "done more" but that also means ****all in boxing because he wasn't putting any leather on the other guy.
Yup, and Dirrell deserved to lose that round. Thing is the fight had 12 rounds and no one has made a convincing point for how Froch deserved more than 5 of those, which is pretty sad since Dirrell gift wrapped the middle rounds for him by holding too much. People are scoring their impression of the fight and not the rounds. Score the rounds and tell me how Froch wins.
It was in Nottingham. That's Froch's hometown. It's the definition of a hometown decision. If you don't think the hometown crowd creates a certain pressure and a difficult environment to properly score a fight I don't know what to tell you. It's the reason Juan Diaz was called a "hometown decision" despite both fighters being American and the judges not being from Texas.
maybe if american fans had come over rather than being the **** fans they are (no ofference, but you/they are hardly travellers are they), you could haave created a bit of atmosphere for Dirrell
no, but Dirrell didnt get ''robbed'' as some say on here either, it was close, the clinching ruined it for me, I could see how that might **** a judge off, it pisses me off.
Sorry, but that's way way too much money to pay to go to a fight between a green challenger and a miserable champ in Nottingham. Give me a great fight in a great city and sure, but Dirrell is pratically unknown in America, and the economy over here, if you haven't noticed, is not spectactular. That doesn't excuse the poor decision or, more important, Froch's completely classless behavior afterwards. The guy got a gift and he can't be even the slightest bit humble about it. Looking forward to watching Kessler thrash him, which might actually be worth travelling for.
Dirrell isn't experienced on this level. He did enough to win going backwards though. For his first big fight, he did what should have been enough to win, including out hustling Froch in the final rounds when his corner told him to. They already knew Dirrell had to take control at the end and he did exactly that. You're forgetting while Dirrell fought his fight and moved alot, he also stood his ground when he chose to. And he beat Froch in the moments he chose to stand in front of him. I'll put it to you this way, Juan Diaz did better against Malignaggi than Froch did against Dirrell. If they wanted to rob a young undefeated fighter, they didn't have to rob him by 3 points. To have Froch well ahead in a fight he was clearly losing is disgusting. No way in bloody hell Froch beat Dirrell by 3 points. That **** is absurd.
Really? That's news to me. I figured British judges appreciated that kind of tactic. But I guess if your name isn't Ricky Hatton then clinching isn't cool out there.
