Arthur Abraham: Stamina - 0 Power - 6 Handspeed - 0 Footwork - 0 Chin - 0 Skills - 0 Think, he will be the biggest loser in the tourny! And his reach will his biggest problem!
Carl Froch Stamina - 9/10 Power - 8/10 Handspeed - 5/10 Footwork - 6/10 Chin - 9/10 Skills - 6/10 Andre Dirrell Stamina - 7/10 Power - 6/10 Handspeed - 9/10 Footwork - 8/10 Chin - 5/10 Skills - 8/10 Arthur Abraham Stamina - 7/10 Power - 9/10 Handspeed - 6/10 Footwork - 5/10 Chin - 9/10 Skills - 6/10 Jermain Taylor Stamina - 5/10 Power - 7/10 Handspeed - 8/10 Footwork - 7/10 Chin - 6/10 Skills - 9/10 Andre Ward Stamina - 8/10 Power - 6/10 Handspeed - 8/10 Footwork - 8/10 Chin - 7/10 Skills - 9/10 Mikkel Kessler Stamina - 8/10 Power - 8/10 Handspeed - 6/10 Footwork - 6/10 Chin - 9/10 Skills - 9/10 Froch = 43/60 Dirrell = 43/60 Abraham = 42/60 Taylor = 42/60 Ward = 46/60 Kessler = 46/60
The beauty is we just dont know - cant wait to find out - anyone like to estimate how many super6 threads there have been / will be ...... and im still reading them all!
I wouldn't exactly give AA a 9/10 in power being that this is his 1st fight at the higher weight & you're totally under estimating Kessler's hand speed!!
I agree, when he fought Calzaghe I thought he had hand speed equal to Calzaghe. He whipps his punchs out and back in a very rapid fashion of a textbook fighter.
It could possibly be bumped up to a 7, but I would hesitate to put it on a level with Taylor and/or Ward's. Likewise, Abraham's power is one-punch KO, I would hesitate to put it down to an 8 with Kessler's and Froch's, who both have very heavy hands and damaging accumulative power, but aren't as likely to have a guy on ***** street or over on the canvas with just one punch.
Ward got dropped because he was weak at 160. Similar to how cotto kept getting dropped at 140. At 168 he has looked strong. The weakest link is taylor, dont get it twisted.
It's highly unlikely AA will carry his power up to 168. Nigel Benn was a murderous puncher at 160, but even he found he couldn't KO the SuperMiddles like he used to the Middles
He's not THAT bad but I do agree that he will struggle in this tourny. For me, he's by FAR the weakest link.
Dirrell's footwork is being grossly overrated here. It's outright poor for someone who relies on his feet as much as he does.
Granted I have only watched a few rounds of some of his earlier fights, but from what I saw his footwork looked ridiculously bad against very weak opponents. Is this down to Dirrell not taking his opposition seriously or does he just have bad footwork? This is a serious question btw.