Abraham-Dirrell: Arthur won’t be able to handle the speed
March 10th, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: You’ve heard the saying “speed kills”? Well, in this case it won’t kill, but will make former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham one miserable human being on March 27th, at the Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit, Michigan. The talented Andre Dirrell, the fastest fighter in the Super Six tournament, is going to unleash his speed on Abraham beat the stuffing out of him on Showtime. Abraham hasn’t yet experienced what it feels like to lose yet, but he’s going to get to know it really well on the 27th, because I see Abraham eating a lot of leather on that night and experiencing a lot of pain.
Abraham has power, quite a bit of it. If Dirrell was to stand glued to one spot in the ring on March 27th, I would guess that Abraham would have a good chance of knocking Dirrell out or least beating him up a little. I don’t know that Dirrell wouldn’t rise up and obliterate Abraham with a volley of lighting fast shots that Abraham would never see due to the speed of the punches.
But who needs to fight like a primitive caveman when you have the speed that Dirrell possesses? It’s much easier to move a little laterally, which is what suspect Dirrell will do, and fire off punches while moving. Dirrell knows now that he can fight a full 12 rounds without getting tired. He didn’t know that before his fight with Froch. But once the fight got to the 10th round, and Dirrell realized that he wasn’t tired, he started lighting Froch up with huge shots like it was no tomorrow. Dirrell even had Froch staggered a couple of times, and looking to hold on for dear life to keep Dirrell from following up with any additional shots.
Dirrell’s hand speed is going to be the key to victory. Abraham is going to be chasing him to try and corner Dirrell so that he can effectively mug him in a corner or against the ropes. In the open ring, Abraham has no chance whatsoever. He’ll be far too slow and unable to make constant with Dirrell with his crude attacks. Abraham might think he’s going to have success against Dirrell in the middle of the ring like he’s done in the past against his opponents in Germany.
That won’t be happening in this case though. Dirrell will be too fast, and will be feeding Abraham with left hands and right hooks to the head as Abraham madly rushes him trying to make contact. The only chance that Abraham will have is if he can pin Dirrell to the ropes or in a corner and try to land something big while Dirrell has his back up against the ropes. That won’t happen either. Dirrell will be too quick to be trapped on the ropes, and Abraham will find himself missing when he throws his badly telegraphed shots.
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Not since Ghandi has a man covered so much distance in the name of peace, Dirrel does not have the inclination to beat up Abraham, he’ll try to outbox him and I hope he gets knocked out as he’s just about the most boring fighter I have ever watched.
I really have no idea where this author came up with this baseless garbage from. From looking at the url it seems as though I’m entering into a reputable website however find the contrary once I start reading the substance. I can’t imagine how anyone can even attempt to say that Dirrell is clearly going to be the winner against Abraham when it is more likely than not that Dirrell will actually be the loser.
I’ve just followed AA’s career, every fight and every second of it. I don’t know much of Dirrell except his last fight in Super Six. But comparing this I cannot imagine Dirrell has one percent of chance to winning. Arthur is much more than an ordinary boxer: he is clever as Klitschko and wild as Tyson – what could be a danger for such a man/beast?
Germany stands behind Arthur and I’m confident that AA will be in the finals with whoever, that doesn’t matter.
Greetings from Germany!
I wish this clown would stop polluting this site with this biased, Dirrell bum sucking madness!
This article is sad. Armenian power will prevail as usual this March 27th. Sorry but Abraham is just a beast.
bang on smith… scott is diluded
by the way i am talkin to u SCOTT
what the F*** is your problem u piece of Sh**. U r a f**** hater. F*** U and F*** direll. After AA destroys dirrell we will see what u have to say u f**** redneck
Did anyone else actually see Arthur’s Miranda fight?
We are talking about a man who lasted without giving up and actually pulled off a win with his jaw practically hanging broken and flapping in the wind.
I personally do not think this man can be hurt.
Arthur by KO within 10.
Scott, get a life. What is your obsession with speed and Andre?
What’s the point of having speed when it doesn’t serve to the purpose? Wanna know why it doesn’t? Direll is not a good boxer.
AA, on the other hand, is a brave and a wise fighter.
Don’t be obsessed with the speed. Next time before you write something, stop for a second and think, before you say a world. With a trash talk like yours, or running in the ring like a headless chickent, speed will only make you and Andre look like two brainless fools.
The strenght and the explosivity of Abraham kills and the guy who gets knocked out will evidently be Mr.Dirrel!
The King will knock the Squirell’s head off.
The only speed you will see from Dirrell is when he is running for 12 rounds!
beat the ‘stuffings out of him’ huh…love your crazy articles, though they dont have much to do with boxing,,,you don’t analyze or try to figure a fight out, you merely take sides and start crowing like a rooster on meth…
@Matt:
I have to disagree with you on one small thing: Abraham looked in a sh*tload of trouble in the Miranda 1 fight, ’cause of that nasty busted jaw. Other than this I agree totally with your comment. Arthur has some big balls, and won’t quit.
I wonder, how dirrell will beat Abraham up, he needs to get past his defence, which equally fast fighters haven’t been successfull with earlier.
Gilfoid you say that Dirrell will be too fast for Abraham but Abrahams hand speed, power and ring movement are all better than Carl froch and froch beat dirrell (this isnt disrespecting Carl Froch im a huge Froch fan, im just been honest).
Dirrell ruins boxing
Again have you ever saw one entire fight from the king? I doubt it because if you do its going to be the discovery of your life. Arthur is the king of boxer whos like a cobra, he waits and see, and then throws only 5 or 10 punches but his foes find themselves really hurt, i dont see direll being all diferent to anyone who abraham face before so sorry but slim chance for direll-.
Abraham by ko in 9 Dirrell had a difficult time agnist B-level Froch
I will be in Detroit on the 27th. Abraham will reveal Dirrell to be a fraud and Gilfoid to be an idiot.
As Pete says, Arthur Abraham deserves a lot more respect. As a Middleweight world champion with a record of 31-31(25)-0, I highly doubt Dirrell is going to have a walk in the park come fight night!
Once again Scott, you write an article that only looks at the positives of one fighter and the negatives of the other one. I’m not bothered by the fact you think Dirrell will wipe the floor with Abraham, it’s the fact you barely mention anything positive about the latter.
Abraham has never been stopped or even been in any trouble in his previous fights. Dirrell will land more shots, but he’s got to find a way through Abraham’s excellent defence and be wary of Abraham’s excellent counter punching.
I’m not sure which way this will go but it’s sure to be a intriguing fight.
I have seen andre ward fight and he has is fast combination ouncher, but is dirrel really faster.I haven’t really seen dirrel fight and am now going to.
Abraham deserves more respect then this article gives him. Dirrell didn’t know what he was doing against Froch but I think he will have learnt an awful lot from that fight. Dirrell can throw a lot more punches in combinations and then move, but he can do it from round 1. If Dirrell can stay focused and keep up the good work for 12 rounds then this fight (or any other) is there for the taking. But can Dirrell do this? Froch was a tough customer who managed to throw Dirrell out of his stride and Abraham is just as rough.
It will be a very interesting fight.
Dirrell has fast hands and can move quick but Arthur excels at cutting off the ring and stalks his opponent. I cant see Arthur losing this as his power is incredible but I expect Dirrell to make some of the rounds close by boxing from range using his speed.
Should be an interesting fight.