Abraham vs. Dirrell: How can Arthur win?
March 11th, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: Make no mistake, Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s) has almost everything going against him in his stage 2 Super Six tournament fight against Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s). Not only is Arthur over-matched in terms of boxing skills and hand speed, but he’s also fighting in Dirrell’s home state of Michigan. The two fighters will be meeting at the famous Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit, Michigan on March 27th. The arena is likely to be jam packed with Dirrell fans on the 27th, and Abraham, who has only fought out of Germany a couple of times in his career, will have to deal with all the pro-Dirrell fans screaming for Abraham’s blood.
Abraham is also going to have to have a lot of luck going for him, because even with Abraham fighting the perfect fight, he’s still badly over his head in this fight. The problem that Abraham is going to have to deal with his total lack of hand speed, and the crude manner in which he attacks his opponents. Abraham can’t go fighting like a primitive that just walked into the gym without any knowledge whatsoever about boxing.
Abraham is going to have to learn to straight out his punches, stop throwing wide hooks and most of all stop madly charging his opponents like a little bull. He’s just looks awful when he does that. And some of the time, Abraham raises his knee as if he’s going to throw a knee. I’ve seen him warned in fights about that, and never could figure out why he does that. It looks very strange and makes him seem uncoordinated. So for Abraham to have a half way decent chance of winning, he has to stop fighting like an amateur and star putting some form together.
I’m telling you, if Abraham tries rushing Dirrell and throwing those ugly wide hooks of his, Dirrell will eat him for dinner and pick him apart. Abraham needs to stop throwing hooks, and start straightening his punches out. Who knows? Abraham might even pick up some badly needed hand speed if he straightens his punches out. The next thing I would work on for Abraham is his tendency to be a laze in his fights.
Abraham has got to stop just covering up all the time and taking breathers and start fighting. Abraham only throws punches during the last seconds of every round, and basically attempts to steal the rounds with his last second flurries. I’ve seen countless fights where Abraham has done zero for two minutes and forty seconds of the round, but then in the last 20 seconds he rushes his opponents and throws eight to ten punches, most of which badly miss.
And then as it turns out, the judges end up giving Abraham these rounds despite him doing nothing until the last seconds, and missing most of his shots when he finally does start to throw. That doesn’t give me a lot of confidence in the judges in Germany, which is where Abraham fights most of the time. That kind of round stealing gimmicks won’t work here in the U.S. Abraham is going to have to actually work hard to win rounds, and if he does nothing for the entire round and try to steal it at the end, he’s just going to come up short.
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Scottie shouldn’t call an undefeated former World Champion with an impressive track record like AA an amateur.
It is a known fact that AA hits like a heavyweighter, all of his opponents agreed on that.
Also AA has the heart and will to fight (he is no chicken like dirrel!).
Conclusion: The only amateur here are you Scottie!!
Scott .. stop writing articles and go home!
The world will be thankful!
I think the home court could play a huge role in this fight. If Dirrell can stay on the outside and box,(which he should be able to do) the crowd’s going to react, and its going to be a no-brainer for the judges. Dirrell obviously got robbed in his first fight of the tournament. Im not saying Andre needs it, but Alex, home cookin’ happens.
I assure you scottik, you’re not suggesting Abraham for a good advice as far as changing his fighting style. You’re only hoping for, should AA come across this article he might heed on your advice and follow your advice which actually you’ve designed it to be effective for dirrell. How silly of you? As you might have witnessed and yet failed to analyse his principles that it’s hard to influence AA. Even his trainer can’t make AA change his style or rhythm. I heard AA in a given interview that people are wondering if I will ever adopt to a different style? but my style is what I have adopted to, I can’t assume someone else’s style!
I could use couple of setbacks like scottik to glorify me too. He’s so much into dirrell’s favor. He’s a loyal fan for sure, makes me wish I was dirrell. Speaking of dirrell’s hometown or backyard, Abraham already made it clear that he sees no significant advantag on dirrell’s side, because when they both step into the ring, they’ll be all on their own. What advantage would that give to Andre if after the KO he finds himself in a ridiculous predicament? After being KOed the “blood screaming fans” will call the name of the King and scream, hurray The King, hooray The King, hoorah The King.
Come on people, you have got to be getting sick of this guys articles. Can you even write about anything else Scott?
King Arthur will dismantle Dirrell.
Dirrell has no real fan base. I have my ticket already but checking ticketmaster periodically it does not appear ticket sales are too brisk yet. I suspect the more expensive seats will be about 50-50 between fans of each fighter.
This is vintage Gilfoid!
asif:
the danny williams fight you are talking about (the airich fight) happened in spain not germany. it was shockingly bad. williams only fight in germany (iirc) was when he got spanked by samil sam.
german judges are usually pretty good…they don’t score rounds on workrate though…us & uk judges are suckers for workrate so it’s a different environment…maybe not what you’re used to.
the dodgiest officials in the world are north american anyway. it’s been that way forever. the mob used to control them…now it’s certain promoters…russia & some asian countries are pretty bad too…but not as bad as north america.
Poor Scott, how many times were you dropped down on your head when you were a baby? Honestly man, there is something wrong with you.
WHY YOU HATE AA SO MUCH??? Did your wife run out with him?
I meant write not right lol. obviously.
Scott,
This is about the 8th time I have read the same article by you re-worded.
Please right about something different. And also it would be good to see some balanced articles form you weighing up both sides. We don’t need 8 articles making the same point. You made your point with the first one!!!
man dirrell is pusy and he will run as a cat all the time but unfortunately the ring is so small and i hope he will not jump on the crowd lolll i think he will cry from the pain but The king will give him lolly pops to suck hehehehe.
Well said. Dirrells is going to give Abraham a shallacking. And wont have the judges to bail him out like that Schmuck Froch did.
Dirrell to win a wide UD, setting up the 2 best super middleweights to meet in Ward and Dirrell
All this guy ever goes on about is how good dirrell is and how his handspeed is gonna automatically gonna win every fight for him. Handspeed is nothing on its own, timing of a punch is more important than handspeed and not running from your opponent is another important thing to remember andre and your boyfriend scott Gilfoid.
Americans just dont understand that defence allways wins over attack – just watch how the Klitschko`s win fight after fight against all the US beef !
Even if Dirrel would be allowed to kick, he could not shake the
defence of Abraham !
Concerning your mocking about only to fight during closing stages of each round: MAN are you dumb – thats exactly the trick
- once the other fighter has given it all (and is out of breath) then and only then you attack and each hit is felt twice as strong from the enemy.
Do yourself a favor, but those cloves on, go to the next gym and put (if you can) a few rounds in – then you goa get it !
Abraham is the king, and he will win again, again and again.
Same way he won against Miranda and Taylor.No rocket science.
You are crazy. Clearly you know nothing about Abraham. On March 27 you will see your boy Dirrel getting a beating. The Armenian Abraham is more than happy to be here in the States. He is no joke and Dirrel doesn’t stand a chance. Dirrel is nothing Abraham hasn’t seen before. Dirrel is going down. I rather believe that the tooth fairy exists than believing what you just wrote. Abraham won’t just win but he will dominate.
Judges in germany are really biased. It makes me remember when trainers use to tell their fighters if they were black they could only win via knockout. Just check out what happened when Danny williams fought there recently.
he may well win but he’s scared shis of this guy. Fighting in front of your neighbors puts pressure on you to perform. I’m waiting to see if Abraham will come to life if he falls behind. At least it’s not on PPV.