America – Dirrell, Taylor & Ward – will win the Super Six tournament
November 24th, 2009
By Scott Gilfoid: It’s pretty much academic now that the United States will be winning the overall Super Six tournament. Not only will we have the ultimate winner with either Andre Ward or Andre Dirrell taking the honors, but our fighters will score higher than the other European fighters in the Super Six tourney. Ward’s shellacking last Saturday night of Mikkel Kessler, the tournament’s number #1 seed, for all practical purposes put a seal on the win for the Americans.
That’s not to say that Dirrell fought the perfect fight, because I didn’t like all the holding and moving he did. But the art of boxing is about hitting and not being hit, and Dirrell was very rarely hit by Froch in the fight. I’m not going to twist things and say it was a masterful performance, though, like some of the fans are saying about British heavyweight David Haye’s 12 round split decision win over World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev on November 7th.
I don’t think it’s interesting to see any fighter run, so lets get that much straight. Dirrell won the fight by boxing, but it wasn’t pretty like Ward’s win over Kessler. But I do see Dirrell redeeming himself in his next fight against Arthur Abraham, the Super Six tourney leader, on January 23rd in the United States. Dirrell will win that fight without any problems because of his superior speed, movement and defense.
If it makes people feel good to pick against Dirrell, go ahead, but you’ll be wrong. Abraham is too slow, too short and too limited with his punch output to beat Dirrell. Abraham looked poor for most of his last fight against Jermain Taylor on October 17th, mainly waiting until the last 30 seconds of every round to let his hands go and throw flurries. That kind of fighting style won’t get the job done against a superior technician like Dirrell.
Abraham hurt Taylor with a big right hand elbow in the 9th round of their fight, and Taylor seemed to never recover from that blow. If Abraham tries any of that crap against Dirrell, he’ll be hitting nothing but air because Dirrell will make him miss all night long with his crude flurries at the end of ever round.
I think Abraham has won his last fight of the tournament because from here on out, he’s going to get exposed and beaten by Dirrell and Froch. As far as Froch goes, he’ll beat Kessler next year in their fight but after beating him, Froch will be knocked out of the Super Six competition in the semi finals. Kessler won’t make it to the Super Six semi finals because he’ll lose to Froch and he may possibly lose to Taylor as well.
The Super Six tournament winner will come down to either Dirrell or Ward. I can’t tell which one will win it, but we’ll have a pretty good idea when Dirrell and Ward meet up in the final fight of the first round of competition. Dirrell has the overall physical and offensive tools compared to Ward, but the judges won’t give him the benefit of the doubt unless he uses them.
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Adam Laiolo over here is a fbag three comments in a row look buddy clearly ur a european p and ull fight scott while running and throwing weak punches. id be willing to bet u havent boxed either and u can come to the states and ill show u how it works then after that you can head back and recomend that urchampion Carl froch leave the tournament because we want to see fights amoung men not like him. Stop ripping on scott or american fighters because you cant name three legitimate european champions besides Joe Calzaghe who himself fought our best late in their careers so even he is overrated. You guys dont box u love tap eachother and hope that you can join for tea later. Well ward is going to teabag all of those bags so just watch
How can you call an elbow from AA crap and Ward win over kessler pretty. You are such a hypocite SG.
Dirrell, Ward, and Kessler are the three best super-middleweight in the world, no doubt about that!
Cotto+pain you probably are in pain cause you take up the @rse and talk out of your @rse hole!!! you *pr!ck.
never left the country have you scott? big world out there get some life expirience son.
Arthur Abraham wins it and stays undefeated and becomes undisputed world champ.
Cotto=pain you are too ignorant for a boxing debate, i can be un-bas eg. Ward did excellent, Taylor is a great fighter but has lost to two of the hardest p4p punchers at world level i his last two fights, no shame there whilst Dirrell, sorry but very lacklustre, a fighter who is similar to Audley Harrison i.e thinks the world title is there for him to pick up without doing any work. Against Taylor, Froch realised he was behind hence the surge but aginst Dirrell he knew that it would be up to Dirrell to come to him evn though one judge was mediocre.
british boxing “champions” are jokes. Example: Ricky “fog breathing” Hatton
Nothings a foregone conclusion Scotty lad! Who knows what may happen? You certainly don’t with one correct prediction in around fifty……U.S.A U.S.A U.S.A U.S.A U.S.A U.S.A U.S.A U.S.A. People find you so amusing hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
lol this guy is great, and you morons fall for it every time
Mr gilfoid you remind me of my little brother rodney.
WHAT A DIPSTICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hold on,,,you just wrote a article saying kessler would beat froch???? make your stupid stupid mind up…
I think Kessler was asked to throw the fight otherwise there wouldn’t of been much point in carrying on with the super six would there?
I dont really like Froch, Dirrell I thought had a good fight against him even though he ran an held.
To take the belt of the champion though it needed to be a one sided match I feel, and basically Dirrell didnt do enough to take the belt.
If Dirrell was the champ then he would have kept his belt that night, if that makes sense?
Anybody who’s stepped in the ring (obviously not the writer of this article) knows it’s just you out there and you are fighting for yourself not the good ole US of A. Respect the fighter not the nation. This isn’t some team sport, it’s gladiators – one on one. In response to your BS, I think nothing is certain in this competition. Kessler never intended to outbox Ward, he came to knock him out. When his eyes were cut by headbutts and elbows his vision was shot and his gameplan scuppered. I don’t think you can discount him yet because he may come back into this, the same could be said of Taylor, who is still a very talented and experienced fighter. Ward is being over-rated and Dirrell doesn’t have the heart or the balls for the fight game, you don’t take titles by running and holding, you have to show aggression. There are still surprises to come in this competition.
one thing i will say about ward and dirrel yeh the fast good fihgters but i still think they would be quite boreing to watch like a lot of american fighters very defensive and a lot of holding, yeh you say its the art of boxing but its the main reason ufc is taking over boxing in the states to many boreing fighter. joe calzaghe was is a good example he was very skilled boxer great jab but would go looking for a fight aswel
scott are you feeling brave after the one prediction you got right last week lol remember all the other predictions youve had wrong your the worst person in boxing to take advise from
Andre Dirrell-warrior? He has had a padded career and that shown when he fought a beast like Froch, a breed who every champ has to fight someday, Dirrell was scared, worried and not confident enough for this calibre of fighter just yet.
Ward’s win is more impressive than Abrahams if anyone really wants to feel this is about nations.
Ward (the big underdog) beat the biggest threat in Mikkel,while Abraham beat the most damaged fighter in Taylor.
Abraham doesn’t have a consistent enough workrate to beat Dirrell or Ward,which is why he will need a ko. If he throws air punches,he will lose.As good as Abraham is-he is being hyped up because of his power-not his skill-set.Both Ward and Dirrell are going to confuse him and frustrate him-he will rely on that one punch,and if he can’t get it cleanly-he loses this fight.As for Froch-he will lose the rest of his fights-Mikkel gets a new belt,and Taylor is FINISHED!
Stick The Star-Spangled Banner up your anus Scott!
You got it all wrong Scott Gilfoid. Jermain Taylor won’t even make it to the semi-finals. He will lose badly to Ward and then Kessler will crush him easily. Dirrell won’t make it neither. Abraham will demolish him quite easily then Ward will proceed to pull a close decision against Dirrell. Abraham, Froch, Kessler and Ward will be part of the semi-finals, I can guarante you that.
At the final, Abraham will be crowned the winner of the Super Six Tournament.
Two of the three Americans won’t get to the semi-finals. HaHaHaHa, I’m laughing at you already Scott Gilfoid, because your predictions will go wrong and the Europeans will win the Super Six and not the Americans.
Come on, Mr Gilfoid! At the end of your ‘analysis’ you write, that Kessler will beat Froch, and three lines later, you write that Froch will beat Kessler. So what will it be? They can’t both lose, you know. And when you write about the two European judges in the Froch-Dirrell-fight, I’d like to ask you this: Did you notice the CALIFORNIAN referee in the Ward-Kessler-fight?
”As far as Froch goes, he’ll lose to Kessler next year in their fight” ……. ”Kessler won’t make it to the Super Six semi finals because he’ll lose to Froch” whos gna win??????????????
Glad you’ve changed your tune about dirrell running. Just need you to srop talking about Abraham’s elbow and not wards head now… Then what you type may at least be slightly objective… There is hope though.
every 1 stop writtin on scotts wall he talks s~~t to get a reaction. this is his 5th and i hope last comment i c on this article.
Glad you pointed out the 9th round elbow. The announcers acted like it was a legitimate punch that shook Taylor. That affected him the rest of the fight.
HANG ON DIDNT TAYLOR GET SMACKED OUT COLD AND DIDNT DIRRELL RUN LIKE A SCARED RABBIT AND KESSLER WAS ROBBED AND FOULD WARD WAS SO LUCKY FROCH WIL KILL HIM GILLIF.U.C.K
F*CK YOU YOU RACIST YANK C*NT
you’ve never boxed have u? i bet u sit behind ur computer and have never been in a gym. drop me an email f*g and lets get it on – adamlaiolo@hotmail.co.uk
gilfoid my old friend, suck my f*ckin bollocks you yank tw@, i wud love me and you to fight, id love it