Abraham vs. Dirrell: Arthur will need a knockout to win
March 2nd, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: The March 27th Super Six bout between unbeaten Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s) and Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) comes down to this: Unless the 30-year-old Abraham can score a knockout, he’s going to end up getting badly out-boxed and will end up losing by a wide decision. That’s pretty much what Abraham’s chances are in this fight. He’s too slow, too short and too defensively flawed to compete with Dirrell in the center of the ring and will have to load up with everything and hope for a knockout if he wants to win this fight.
In fact, I’d say Abraham is a little slower than even some of the 2nd tier opposition that Dirrell has faced in his short five year pro career. I do believe that Abraham is a little stronger than Carl Froch, Curtis Stevens and Victor Oganov, the three biggest punchers that Dirrell has faced in his career. However, Abraham isn’t much stronger than any of them.
What makes Abraham dangerous is that he throws hooks in an exaggerated manner. I’ve never seen a fighter throw as wide hooks with such poor hand speed like Abraham before. It’s surprising that Abraham’s opponents don’t take advantage of Abraham’s wide hooks by ramming a straight right down the middle and stopping him in his tracks.
But then again, much of Abraham’s prior fights have come against what I consider poor opposition. That’s not his fault. The middleweight division has been dreadful since Bernard Hopkins moved up in weight to the light heavyweight division. Hopkins, if he was still fighting at middleweight, would have beaten the stuffing out of Abraham years ago and Abraham would never have been able to capture the IBF middleweight title with Hopkins still around in the division.
I see Dirrell as just as talented as Hopkins, only with much more hand speed and defensive ability. He’s going to box circles around Abraham on March 27th, and make him look like a rank amateur. Dirrell is fighting on another level than Abraham. When you take a fighter that has been beating soft opposition and then put him in with a guy that has skills and speed beyond what that fighter has ever faced before, bad things happen.
I see Abraham getting severely outclassed by Dirrell in this fight. And there won’t be any way that Abraham will be able to win rounds by throwing a small handful of punches like he usually does in the last thirty seconds of each round. Abraham isn’t going to win rounds by connecting with 10 punches in the last seconds and doing virtually zero other than cover up with his crab defense in the first two and half minutes of every round.
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LOL!
Scott go BLOW Dirrell after he gets KTFO.
i see i see i see, man you are blind and you will apologize from AA after the fight ok!
FROCH DIDNT.
At least you didn’t compare Dirrell to Sugar Ray Robinson this time! Though Hopkins was seamlessly substituted in.
Come on Scott let hear a different article from you. Been reading the same 3 articles by you for 6 months now. Words moved around a little but seriously they are the same.
Here we go again. wondering which excuse scottie will find when AA knocks dirrell into deep dreams
WHY HE WILL LOSE WITHOUT KNOCKOUT?
BECAUSE HE IS NOT A US FIGHTER, BUT WE ALL KNOW HE IS BETTER FIGHTER….I WANT TO SEE CLEAN JUDGES,NO CORUPTED ONES..
NEXT FIGHTER FOR AA STEP IN LINE..PAVLIK MAYBE ITS YOU?
THANKS FOR GIVING HINT TO ARTHUR ABRAHAM,,,HE WILL MAKE SURE ANDRE IS DOWN BEFORE THE 12TH ROUND,,,YOU SAY AA CANT OR WILL NOT WIN BY UNANOMOUS DECISION EVEN HE DESTROYS ANDRE?
WHAT A SHAME MIND GAME PLAYERS… THANKS GOD NO DON KING INVOLVED….DETROIT BETTERS PUT YOUR $$$$ ON AA …I KNOW THIS SOUNDS HARSH TO YOU…WHY NOT VEGAS ?
Scott Gilfoid get the F..out
Jesus…where to start.
“In fact, I’d say Abraham is a little slower than even some of the 2nd tier opposition that Dirrell has faced in his short five year pro career.”–Not even remotely true. and his speed isn’t his main strength anyway, so it doesn’t matter. His strength isn’t either. It’s his power that’s the key, not his strength or speed.
“What makes Abraham dangerous is that he throws hooks in an exaggerated manner…. It’s surprising that Abraham’s opponents don’t take advantage of Abraham’s wide hooks by ramming a straight right down the middle and stopping him in his tracks.”–Actually, what makes Abraham dangerous is his body punching and straight right. And the reason people don’t stop him in his tracks is because the straight right would not hurt him, and Abraham’s hook would still land. If anything, you’d want to counter with a hook, not a straight right.
“But then again, much of Abraham’s prior fights have come against what I consider poor opposition.”–Semi-true, but then you have to consider the fact that Dirrell hasn’t faced anyone as good as Taylor, Miranda, and Gevor. Froch, maybe, but that wasn’t even a fight so it doesn’t count
“I see Dirrell as just as talented as Hopkins, only with much more hand speed and defensive ability.”–This is blasphemy. It’s so ridiculous and blatantly false that I don’t even know what to say. I’ll give you speed, obviously, but defense? Talent? No sir, you are mistaken indeed.
“When you take a fighter that has been beating soft opposition and then put him in with a guy that has skills and speed beyond what that fighter has ever faced before, bad things happen.”–Which is why Dirrell’s going to get ktfo. He’s never seen anything like Abraham.
I think this guy is just trying to convince people to put bets on dirrell,,,, nothing else makes sense. lets get one thing strait, AA has had harder opponents than dirrell…
Completely agree with you, Jackson.
I’ve read this article over a few times and each time I come away a bit more stunned at how goofy it is.
“But then again, much of Abraham’s prior fights have come against what I consider poor opposition.”
But it really doesn’t matter what you consider “poor opposition”. Because if you ability to gage opposition is the same as your ability to understand Abraham’s approach – as well as your ability to completely exaggerate Dirrell’s worth as a fighter…. then what you consider is irrelevant.
In one article you have a track record at having no idea.
The author really doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
He makes Abraham seem too overly matched in this one.
Like other boxers didn’t think they could exploit the perceived sluggishness of Abraham…. only to lose.
Then he says that Abraham’s opposition was poor opposition. Truly clueless.
This reads like some kid who recently made the jump to boxing as their sport of choice.
OK change of venue so that means change of hospital, its called St John Hospital in Detroit and that’s where Andre Dirrell is going to end up.
you know… scott had put this with 0 losses in for dirrell I pointed out the mistake and now my post is removed…
hmmmmm
dirrell is gonna lose
I reckon these geezer gets a kick out of being a prick! No boxing brain whatsoever. Dirrell has no hope of withstanding that power. Froch barely hit him in that fight, if he had then he would have knocked him out. Abraham just needs to connect and its over.
I do agree though Dirrell would win the fight one time out of ten by using his speed to jump around the ring and avoiding a maul. Like Froch says, boxing is full of guys who are only interested in dancing round the ring trying to squeeze out a close decision.
Scott,
I wish this fight was tomorrow or even yesterday, I am really getting tired of you and Dirrell. Just how much analysis can you do on this guy?
Yes yes I agree with you. Yes Abraham will need a KO (which he’s more likely to get) to win. And I don’t know if you have mentioned it in your article coz I didn’t read it, but yes if it goes the distance Dirrell will have piled up enough points by the 12th round to win.
OMG! Please, whoever is in charge, take the keyboard away from this guy!!!
@ Anonymous
He’ll either make up some pathetic excuse how the ref was biased or the KO was actually a slip and Dirrell bashed his head on the canvas, so it shouldn’t have counted as a a knockdown. Or, he’ll just go quiet on this subject and start sla55ing off other British fighters or sucking Ward’s c0ck.
fu*k off with these articles scott. no one cares what you think of the abraham-dirrell fight any more . dirrell gonna get knocked out cold. what are you gonna say then.
F Off with the articles Gilfoid, this has become a ROCD (Ridiculous Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). You really are a prize c$nt.
Dirrell is going to get knocked out cold. It’s going to be pretty amusing when you make excuses for him.
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