Wow. People still think Froch beat Andre Dirrell? I thought it was Consensus

Dirrell wasnt hurt nor staggered. He was caught going backwards off balance. Dirrell lands more punches in the round by a wide difference, but they were mostly ineffective punches, distance controlling punches, and I see no problem giving this round to Froch because he landed the msot effective punch of the round.

Thought was a clear Dirrell round. Fair enough.

Clear Dirrell round. One of his best on the night. Froch doesnt really land anythng, but a well timed body slam. Dirrell outlanded Froch in that round 12-2. Froch wasnt even aggressive in this round with Dirrell throwing more punches and power shots.

This round is pretty much when Froch realizes he cant beat Dirrell in a boxing match and has to get dirty.

Meh gave this round to Froch aswell.

Froch's punches on the inside were mostly rabbit punches to the back of the head, you dont count those. With about 30 seconds left in the fight Froch grabs the back of Dirrells head and starts hitting him, most refs would deduct a point for that. Dirrell complains which allows froch to land his only meaningful punch of the night.

Dirrell punctuates the end of the round with a left hook that sends Froch into the ropes, the hardest punch of the round, in a round where Dirrell outlanded Froch.

Dont see how you could give this round to Froch. Dirrell lands several blistering combinations, the only thing Froch lands is a left hook while Dirrells on the ropes at the end of the round. But this doesnt discount that Dirrell out landed him most of the round. Best punch being a right counter at the 1:30 mark.

Agreed, gave this round to Froch.

Agreed.

Agreed.

Exactly. The fight only got ugly from rounds 6-9. Rounds 1-5 was a classic boxing match with both fighters trying to outbox the other.

Froch realized that he couldnt outbox Dirrell so he got into the rough stuff, Dirrell for his inexperience couldnt cope, but in my eyes it still didnt lose him the fight.

Those who say this fight was horrible, are those that only watched it the night and most likely were favoring Froch to massacre Dirrell and when that didnt happen it became "a horrible fight"

I see where you are coming from. But if you count punches and see how ineffective Froch's offense is. Rounds 5, 7, 8 are clear Dirrell rounds. Froch would try and rough it up and come on in the last 30 seconds, but it doesnt take away what Dirrell did the entire round which was counter well and land blistering combinations.

Most of Froch's punches came at one of the time increments. Dirrell landed combos.


Anyways while I disagree, I respect you for actually coming up with a scorecard, most Froch fans wont even attempt to back up them scoring the fight for him.

Kudos. :good

 

He was complaining because Froch was body slamming him and hitting him on the back of the dome.

What the **** is he supposed to do.

 

Nonsense. Only one poster has been able to post a scorecard defending Froch. And even then, the rounds he gave Froch, 5, 7, 8 were clear Dirrell rounds based on punches landed.



Again if you are scoring by the criteria correctly, its a clear Dirrell victory.

Giving Froch 7 rounds is quite a task. Kill Something giving rounds 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 to Froch only scored it 6-4-2 for Froch.

Its almost literally impossible to find 7 rounds to give to Froch. He landed 5 power punches the entire fight. You'd basically have to say he out jabbed Dirrell. :rofl

He fought a smart fight. He could have went in there and tried to take Caveman Slobra's head off, but instead he decided to outbox him and was doing fine until Froch realizing he couldnt win that way started to rabbit punch and do anything he could to make the fight rough. From round 6-9 the fight was somewhat close, but in the 10th with the bull**** point deduction Dirrell woke up so to speak and outclassed him.

Again if this fight were in a nuetral venue in all likelyhood Froch is disqualified before the start of the 9th and its not even an issue.

Despite throwing 11 punches around and embarrassing himself against a fighter who is quite possibly the worst fighter to ever hold a belt, the fact that he showboated and "looked" like he was winning was better then Dirrell who threw landed twice as much as Haye threw just because Dirrell had the audacity to complain about blatant fouling? Wow.

Thats inexperienced judging.

Reference the Hatton vs Mayweather fight. To the unschooled observer, Hattons rough tactics and lunging in/ineffective aggression would make it seem like Hatton was doing well for the first half of the fight. Thats why you hear HAttonites saying that the fight was even for the first 6 rounds.

But the judges of the fight beg to differ. you see them being experienced, realized that Hatton wasnt actually landing punches, this wasnt a cage match, and ever time Hatton lounged in Mayweather was hitting him with clean counters, ala Froch vs Dirrell.

Again nuetra venue with experienced judges and referees, I dont even think Froch finishes the fight.

 

Andre Dirrell never turned his back on any of Froch flurries. Most of Froch's rabbit punches came in the clinch or when Dirrell was ducking his punches. In the 8th round Froch even looks at the back of Dirrells head and throws a punch at it. :rofl

 

There was outrage the night of the fight, like there always is during a controversial decision, the vast majority had Dirrell winning, even on the Brit forum it was something like 60-40. But Dirrell wasnt supposed to be here. He didnt "deserve" to be in the super six.

infact many were saying the same thing they are now saying about Abraham vs Dirrell, Froch was just gonna walk threw him, dominate and stop him.

The only thing that pisses me off is that it kind of takes away from Dirrell vs Ward. If they both win their next fight, it could have been 2 olympic champions fighting to unify the belts. That would have been some top class promotion. A bit like Roy Jones vs Hopkins only difference is people knowing how good their potential is this time around.

Instead the Slobra gets to act like he's the champion for another few months and I wouldnt put it past him possiby stopping mentally weak Kessler.

And given that, that could mean even Dirrell wins his next 2 fights he could be out of the super six based on H2H.