Abraham’s lazy fighting style leads to desperation and disqualification
March 28th, 2010
By William Mackay: Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) is no longer unbeaten after fouling out of last Saturday night’s bout with Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) in the 2nd part of the Super Six tournament in Detroit, Michigan. With Dirrell having built up a commanding lead going into the 11th round, Abraham, frustrated because of his inability to catch up to the speedy Dirrell, opted to take the easy way out by landing a crushing right hand as Dirrell was helpless on the canvas after slipping on water in Abraham’s corner.
By the 10th round had arrived, Abraham was like a school child who had procrastinated in writing a paper and was in a desperate hurry to throw it together at the last second. But like a lot of people who procrastinate to the last second, Abraham found himself desperate, maybe too desperate, and looking to get an extra edge. In this case, he couldn’t use crib notes or plagiarize material but instead he did the very next best thing by trying to get away with landing a shot while Dirrell was down.
Maybe this is something that would be ignored had this fight taken place in Germany, but it didn’t fly in the U.S., as Abraham was quickly disqualified. In losing the fight, Abraham takes a big hit in terms of his so called invincibility. Abraham was seen by some boxing people as a potential winner of the Super Six. Not anymore. He looked one-dimensional and very limited in the fight.
And Abraham’s work rate was pitiful for a top tier fighter. He waited way too long to get started and when he did finally start throwing punches, Abraham was so far behind in the fight that he had to score a knockout. Who knows? Maybe Abraham could have stopped Dirrell in the 11th or 12th if he had kept his composure and not resorted to cheating. We don’t know because Abraham totally blew it by blasting Dirrell while he was down on the canvas.
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Dirrell wasnt faking!! look at the entire round AND the previous round . Dirrell was Badly hurt BEFORE the illegal blow. In fact, Dirrell slipping was due to shakey legs in the first place . I bet 50$ on Dirrell and was thinking I was about to lose the wager because Dirrell was so out of it he was on borrowed time at that point . Dirrell git hurt Badly inthe 10th but bounced back up even though out on his feet . A sign of a fighter that is routinely floored during training . A good exaple of this is Zab Judah.. who can forget the .. chicken dance lol against Costa Czu . ALSO fighters who get floored regularly and have 2nd reflex to bounce back on thier feet, commonly have the .. delayed reaction when they do get koed and CANT rise. Anouther Common thread you see in Dirrell and Judah
Ryan;
LOL, you are really getting worse. For a while, you at least tried to make sense. Watch that Starling-Molinares fight. Was Starling faking? Abraham was a joke, I understand you hate Dirrelll’s style, but come on! A short hook?!? Really??? And it was a straight against Taylor!! The blatantly intentional fould by Abraham was a much harder punch than Taylor! You don’t say anything about Taylor moving his arms and looking around, and that was why you said he faked. That no one does that when knocked out. Now its Abrahams punch wasn’t hard enough? Watch it in real time, watch as soon as he gets nailed he falls back into the ropes!
Knowing a thing or two about brain injuries, I just can’t agree with the doubters that a KO always producing instant lights out therefore he was obviously faking it. It just is medically incorrect. Now, I don’t know if he was faking it or not, but I do know that it’s very possible that he went unconscious after a few moments had passed.
Here’s another thought on the faking it theory. In order for the faking it theory to work, Dirrell would have had to know in advance that Abraham was going to hit him illegally when he slipped or he would have had to come to this brilliant plan in the very short time frame between the time of the initial hard blow to the jaw and then fake the unconsciousness.
Sorry, I just can’t buy this theory.
A more likely theory is that he slipped/lost balance from a glancing blow, was on his knees, and was punched afterwards. The referee (as bad of a job as he did during the fight) finally makes a correct call and DQ’s Abraham.
Was Abraham going to KO Dirrell? Maybe. Unfortunately, we’ll never know if he could have landed the necessary punch to make it happen or not. Dirrell was doing a pretty good job of avoiding the punches in the 11th round, regardless of how tired some feel he was. I would never deny that Abraham had the power and ability to KO Dirrell (any opponent for that matter), but the fact remains — he took away that opportunity from himself. Nobody is to blame for the loss as it occurred but Abraham himself.
@lex
I dunno man, I guess we just saw it two different ways. Where you thought Abraham “loaded up, pulled back his arm and wound up painfully slowly putting everything he has into it!” I saw a short hook that glanced Dirrell’s chin, then I saw a lucid (that means cognizant which means conscious which means NOT KNOCKED OUT!) Dirrell look around, mime “OWW”, reach for his face with his glove, then fall back and THEN start to twitch unconsciously.
You could almost sense his corner off-camera when Dirrell glanced over indicating he go down and accept the DQ and automatic win.
I didn’t see any Haymaker. And how can you compare AA’s KO of Taylor? You can see the resounding thud go through Taylor’s face from the straight right. Just like Hatton, you can see the reverberation of the punch absorbed by his chin and neck and head. Both Hatton and Taylor fell HARD to the ground with no arms to save them. Dirrell not only was already on the ground, he still lifted his glove to his face to say “Ow, that hurt!”
Two TOTALLY different situations IMO. But the DQ was indeed the right call. Dirrell was clearly down, clearly vulnerable, and it was CLEARLY an illegal hit. Textbook illegal, in fact.
But yeah, I think Dirrell needs to work on his flopping lessons. He should have Boozer teach him a thing or two about how to do it right.
…ryan
How come its the most disgusting thing in the world when Abrahams does it against an American but when an American does it like Monte Barrett did to David Haye not a word is spoken about it.
Look it aint nice but it wasnt the hardest of shots, Dirrell faked it, the ref did the right thing and the right man won. So get off your high horses and get yourselves a Bigmac to shut you up.
ALL THREE MUST BE DQ FOR LIFE FOR EMBARASSING AMERICAN PROF BOXING: REF COLE, ANDRE DIRRELL AND GARY SHAW. AD POSTPONED FIRST AGREED DATE OF THE FIGHT-AA SAID NOTHING. AD PRETENDING TO HAVE BACKACHE POSTPONED 2-ND AGREED MARCH 6 SCHEDULED FIGHT IN S. CAL – AA SAID NOTHING AND RETURNED BACK TO GERMANY FROM LA. AD WANTED THE FIGHT TO BE MOVED TO HIS HOMETOWN AWAY FROM ARMENIAN FANS OF LA (WHO WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY GIMMICS BY THE ABOVE THREE CLOWNS) – AA SAID NOTHING. THEN GARY SHAW MANAGED TO HAVE APPONTED (WHAT AN EMBARASSMENT!!!) ALL FOUR REFS FROM MICHIGAN, AND WHEN AA’S PROMOTER SAUERLAND COMPLAINED – GARY USED F WORDS ON TV SEVERAL TIMES AND LEFT THE ROOM. LATER WHEN SAUERLAND LEARNED THAT THE MICHIGAN REF IS REPLACED BY COLE – WORST REF IN AMERICAN BOXING – RUSHED TO BEG TO REINSTATE THE MICHIGAN REF BUT IT WAS TOO LATE. AND ALL THE WORLD SAW HOW COLE ALLOWED AD TO HIT AA LOW THREE TIMES AND ONCE- WHEN ABRAHAM REALLY WAS HURT AND STOPPED FIGHTING AND HANDS WERE DOWN HOLDING GROIN-ALLOWED A.DIRRELL TO ATTACK AND HIT AA’S DEFENSELESS HEAD. COLE DIDN’T COUNT WHEN ABRAHAM KD’ed DIRRELL AND WAS TOTALLY ABSENT(LIKE A CLOWN) IN THE FINAL UNFORTUNATE EPISODE. ABRAHAM’S HONEST MISTAKE UNDER EXTREME PRESSURE WAS NOT INTENTIONAL AND HE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO KO AD LIKE HE DID IN 26 PREVOUS FIGHTS.INTENTIONAL WERE ALL ABOVE THREE’S EMBARASSING ACTIOPNS.
Mr Mackayyyyyyys title headline pretty much some the whole fight up.
But Dirrell did do damn well to really expose AA,s lazy style and desperation.
barrera has done the same thing many times and not once did he get disqualified..if dirrell got up abraham wud neva have got the DQ, a points deduction at most..insted dirrell bed out like a puy. IMO dirrell wud have won if he got up but his acts just show he has no heart at all! end of discussion
“He’s down. I hit him. That’s normal.” Wow, if that’s really normal in Germany no wonder they don’t produce many good fighters. All the talent in Germany goods their careers ended by haymakers when they’re down. What the heck was Abraham even talking about??? He must have forgot their are cameras and instant replay. He wasn’t down. Ok, he was down, but I only hit him once thats normal. Then, I didn’t know he was down I looked at his head not his feet. Really, Arthur? Didn’t think it was a little odd that his head was perfectly vertical and at your waist? Did AA think Dirrell suddenlly shrunk 3 feet??? He must have thought he was in Wonderland! Say Hi to Alice for me Arthur!
whats all the confusion,,,,dirrel was winning the fight easily,,,AA punched him while he was down,,,course hes gonna be DQ,,,and rightley so,,dirrel won the fight,end of,abraham needs to read the rule book !!!and learn to box!!
Ryan;
You don’t see that shot doing that damage? He literally loaded up, pulled back his arm and wound up painfully slowly putting everything he has into it! ANd he had gravity working with him to add even more force to it. He KO’d Taylor with a straight, but a haymaker with everything he has and swinging down can’t do the same damage as a straight???? Haymakers usually are a lot harder shots than straights and he clearly put everything he had into it. Where was all the cries when of acting when Taylor got KO’d?? Watch it again, Taylor moved his head with his eyes open looking around and moved his hands too. I guess he musta been faking it, probably just didn’t want to go the last 15 seconds. If you actually watch the replay in real time, not the slow mo they kept showing, its clear Dirrell went straight back as soon as he got hit, but bounced off the ropes and fell straight down. Look at numerous knockouts and you will see fighters moving their hands and arms when they are clearly very hurt and not knowing whats going on. Watch it again, in a second and a half Dirrell was flat on the canvas and it woulda been less than a second if he hadnt bounced off the ropes. But hey, how can a haymaker at waist level do as much damage as a straight? You got me there!
Can’t Abraham get a decent corner??? How the heck does the corner of a world champion literally leave puddles of water where they were working! Terrible corner and a terrible fighter. Abraham proved he doesn’t belong in the ring with any decent boxer and doesn’t stand a chance if a ref doesn’t warn and take points for the opponents hitting Abraham with body shots. AA mighta won if he had came too fight instead of cry and whine and moan. Arthur acted like a little girl for 11 rounds and then showed the world he has no class or integrity or self-respect at all. I now know what the term Euro-trash means. Europe is a great contintent with some great boxers, but Abraham proved he is not one of them and disgraced himself, his fans, and his country.
aaa – There really is no easy way to see this, you are an idiot. You and Abraham is not a good boxer yet he was kicking Abrahams @ss the whole fight, winning on all the scorecards and knocked Abraham down once and should have got a second one if it wasn´t for a lucky rope save. If he is so bad how come the coward Abraham was easily losing the fight and had to resort to a cheap shot to try and win? Abraham is a sore loser, coward for hitting a guy while down, 0 integrity piece of trash
Great comments on this fight from everyone that posted one, everything about the fight deserves criticizm except for Dirrell’s boxing up until round 9 or 10….
Sore loosers. Regarless of the punch being a KO or not. The rules are clear. If a Fighter hits the apponent while they are down. They can be Disqualified.
@jimmy
I think the better explanation is that: it was round 11, Dirrell handedly was ahead but very tired. Abraham was head hunting and hurting Dirrell with power shots the last couple rounds.
When he slipped and got hit, it was as though the punch knocked a light bulb on in Dirrell’s head…. WIN BY DQ!
You know why that is plausible? Because you rarely have a time delay on a head shot that is so severe it causes you to twitch. What was the twitching from? That was drama class 101.
If you look at his eyes after the hit, he’s lucid, looks a round, then lifts his gloves to his head as if to say “that hurt”.
Now look at when Hearns knocked out Duran, or even when Pacquiao knocked out Hatton. Did hatton have a chance to look around, hold up his hands then blackout? No way his arms and body went limp the INSTANT he was hit on the chin.
Much more plausible, don’t you think?
…ryan
Terry:
Yeah you must be right, most likely Dirrell intentionally slipped knowing that Abraham would want to hit him while he was down and instead of playing it safe and winning the fight over the last 4 minutes because he was way ahead on score cards he could fake a ko and go out that way, that seems to make sense…
AA needs to get a better strategy from here on out…creeping around the ring for 10 rds getting beamed left and right thinking he’s going to TKO in the final rds is just stupid. The competition is too good in this tourney.
Boxing is not for crying babies. It’s easy to judge when you are outside of the ring but when you are in an action you don’t see anything around and sometimes you go by inertion.
It is scheduled for 12 rounds and looking for any excuse to stop the fight is not doing any respect to Actor Dirrell.
@t-holleufer
What about Froch?
And I agree, Abraham was a disgrace last night. It’s too bad, really. A Tyson ear-biting type of atrocity.
…ryan
Arthur Abraham was a disgrace for european boxing, and it must have been a very depressing sight for veteran coach Uli Wegner to see his pupil loose it like that. The germans seemed like pure amateurs the way they splashed the corner with water making it dangerous and after the fight defending Abraham’s cowardly and unsporting act, when hurting Dirrell, while he sat on the floor. Abraham should be kicked out of Super Six, and Dirrell saluted for a sublime show of top class boxing. Now european all rests with Mikkel Kessler of Denmark.
he wasnt acting you f his corner couldnt even convince him he didnt get knocked out. AA was clearly wrong, yet he was clearly KO’ed. How about you fall to that position and let me hook your unexpected chin and lets find out how you react. AA is a beast when he connects. Where the c* have you been. He was clearly out boxed but dont play that acton bull s* on Dirrels part you knowledgeless h.
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Whether Abraham was going to win or lose, the shot deserved the disqualification.
But furthermore, the reaction to his punch was a joke. It was nowhere NEAR the type of shot that would lead someone to twitching. The delay Dirrell showed was more akin to a shot to the solar plexus, like when B-Hop KO’d ODLH, not a shot to the head.
So I think the DQ was the right call, but the fake KO was a joke. Dirrell saw an easy win and just flopped, so to speak. Guys get tired, and perhaps he thought it was a quicker way to his V. I just don’t see that shot doing that damage. I call BS.
And shame on Abraham on hitting a man clearly slipped and on the ground.
…ryan