Dirrell vs. Abraham: Andre will make an example of Arthur
February 24th, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) isn’t pleased with how he had his perfect record marred by a questionable 12 round split decision against Carl Froch in their stage 1 Super Six bout on October 17th last year. Dirrell wants to make up for that loss in his next fight against unbeaten Arthur Abraham on March 27th, and it would seem that Dirrell has the perfect opponent to do that against. Abraham, although much more skilled and powerful than Froch, doesn’t have the hand speed or movement to really test Dirrell.
For some fans not entirely familiar with Abraham, they see him as a huge knockout artist based on his 12th round knockout win over Jermain Taylor in October. But that win doesn’t really prove much, because Taylor was already feeling the effects of earlier knockout losses to Froch and Kelly Pavlik, and appeared to have lost much of his punch resistance from those two defeats.
Abraham can punch, there’s no question, but he’s no second coming of Julian Jackson or anything close to that. Abraham is just an average run of the mill hard puncher with power very similar to Dirrell. If I was to pick who the harder puncher of the two was, I’d give it to Abraham by a slight margin. However, Dirrell is a much more dangerous puncher because he can punch hard even while throwing blinding fast flurries, and plus his hand speed and southpaw stance make him even more dangerous.
As such, I see Abraham’s power as totally overrated by fans. Those same fans will quickly change their opinions about Abraham after they watch how easily Dirrell beats Abraham on March 27th. Abraham, with his horribly slow hand speed, won’t lay a glove on Dirrell and will spend the entire night hitting mostly air and looking like a rank amateur for his efforts.
Dirrell is going to put on a punching clinic against Abraham, and batter him at will and send him back to his adopted country of Germany a beaten up loser. This is going to be such a one-sided fight that people will change their minds about picking Abraham to win the Super Six tournament. I have idea why anyone could possibly think that Abraham can win the Super Six tournament if they’ve seen him fight even once. He just looks totally primitive and doesn’t have it.
I’m hoping that Froch can beat his next opponent Mikkel Kessler on April 24th so that Froch can keep moving forward towards an eventual rematch with Dirrell. I think Dirrell will beat Froch even worse than he did in their first fight and gain revenge for the horrible decision in that fight.
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Gilfoid is damn idiot..
you may need to change your name scott gilford after the fight ..
coz your name is already does not have any respect..
you gonna sound even stupider after
Dirrel MAY actually have a chance. But to me, this is Ward vs. Kesler ALL over again, Ward had to PROVE himself. Dirrell hasn’t really done much to prove himself. Froch is a bit overrated anyway. He has fought 3-4 top level fighters at best. The margins of victory were RAZOR thin even for Froch fans against Taylor and Dirrell. AA is NOT FROCH. He is a MUCH harder puncher and light years ahead on defense. Dirrell fights scared, that is his biggest hurdle.
How can you say Abraham has an avearage chin he finished a 12 round fight with a broken jaw ? thats incredible
Ey Gilfoid ur lame, ur articles are lame go do us all a favor find a rope and hang urself. when u write an article and 98.9% of the people don’t agree with u and write negative comments about u or ur article than u come back and write tha same crap again than that means u have major problems , i suggest u go see some sort of a doctor or a psychiatrist.
arthur is a brick wall this dude will not go down……..
hold your breath andy
if you are so sure PROMMISE to NEVERF wright again if Dirrel loses???? How about it scotty, will you back up your words???
bruno
we all no how far the brittish pound goes u no what i mean. i think they got there heads turned
I see it the same as the Froch fight. Dirrel doing well but running and holding— Abraham the aggressor and Landing the harder punch. Who do you like????the man who makes the fight or the man who shows he knows the proper boxing technics but is afraid to use the skills
I hope Direll gets KO’d in round 1, he is so annoying and up himself
So AA’sfirst fight against Miranda proved he has as an ordinary chin. His jaw was broken in the 4th, Miranda had two point deducteded in the 5th for intentional butting and AA never went down and never backed down. Which proves you an ignorant idiot.
So…if Dirrell will beat Froch ‘even worse’ in a rematch…does that mean he’ll get a draw..?
I think someone on here wants some ‘Matrix’ bum loving…
@ vandal
how bout you dont write on this site anymore after dirrel wins?
hahaha Dirrell was all gob until that ko… he looked worried then snd he knows that would take him out
english judges are known for their corruption!!!! correct me if im wrong, werent two of the 3 judges from other countries? thats the most discriminitive comment i have ever heard. Dirrel will get his asked kicked and be a LOSER once again
Wouldn’t it be a funny thing if Dirrell lost to Abraham then beat Ward – especially if Ward was still the champ. That would take the shine off the final a bit seeing as the winner should come away WBA & WBC double champion.
“Abraham is just an average run of the mill hard puncher with power very similar to Dirrell” – Abrahams power is simliar to Dirrells? Sorry, I just had to repeat it over to myself.
“Dirrell is a much more dangerous puncher because he can punch hard even while throwing blinding fast flurries’ – Correction, Dirrell throws two punches together max then goes for a run or a nice hug.
“I think Dirrell will beat Froch even worse than he did in their first fight” – Correction, Dirrell did not beat Froch in their first fight.
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In all seriousness Dirrell can beat Abraham on points. He needs to do much better then he did against Froch. He needs to land at least twice as many as he did on Froch. Try not to hold and run so much, it’s fine to do that but he over-did it last time. He needs to land more and be a little braver to get those shots off, or Dirrell is out.
Scotty find out when the tickets go on sale and where is it gonna take place
Dirrell injured? Hmmm… Sounds floydie to me…Long live the king!
We know what you think Scott youve only said it 12 times in 3 weeks.
Dirrell needs to to be not pleased with his performance in the 2nd half of the Froch fight, if hed continued how he did in the 1st half of it hed of won.
He gave the judges the oppertunity to score in favour of Froch, they all scored him well until he changed the way he fought to a negative way
steve u thick bafoon if u cant see that froch got schooled then by dirrell then u have no buisness being on this site, if you want primitive caveman like brawls that require no skill level at all then watch ufc
dirrell hasnt the power to trouble abraham you watch arthur will walk through him.
yawn,,,,,,, to fight on and win with a broken jaw, makes abraham a boxer with exceptional punch resistance. An ordinary fighter? his jaw was about hanging off. Abraham has stood up to the test. lets see if dirrell can.
AA by knockout
Why do you write such drivel?
Agree never to write again if Dirrell loses. Better still, find out what the new venue for the fight is. I think his back injury is a ruse by slimy Gary Shaw to move the fight to a bigger hall.
That’s OK. That’s just more fans to cheer Arthur as he knocks Dirrell out.
i see dirrel terrorising arthur as he did carl froch only this time he will get a fair shake unlike when he fought in england when he was robbed by the corrupt judges england are now infamous for.
This fight will finnish Dirrell on the world stage!!!!! its a shame really as he showed such promise, Abraham to win by savage knock out.