Why didn’t Dirrell have tears when he was crying?
March 31st, 2010
By Chris Williams: I don’t know if I was the only that noticed this or not, but when Andre Dirrell was crying after his 11th round disqualification victory over Arthur Abraham last Saturday night in their Super Six tournament fight in Detroit, Michigan. Dirrell had been easily winning most of the fight when he seemed to fade in the 10th round. In the 11th, Dirrell was running for his life from Abraham when he slipped on the canvas. Abraham, not one to waste a good opportunity, loaded up plastered the side of Dirrell’s head with a nice uppercut.
Normally when a person cries, they have tears rolling down their face, but for some reason Dirrell had no tears whatsoever. I didn’t know what to think about it. I thought he was really hurt up until I noticed that there was no tears falling down his face, yet he was crying off and on for at least a minute. I’m not an expert crying, but as far as I can tell, a person usually produces tears when they cry.
I didn’t see any tears coming from Dirrell’s face. My question is why weren’t any tears falling down Dirrell’s face? That’s really weird. Was Dirrell really crying or just whining? If Dirrell was just whining, then I can understand the absence of tears. Whining can have tears or no tears. Whining is when a person complains in a tearful way, but it doesn’t need to have tears present.
Dirrell was clearly complaining after the fight, and looking really confused about what had happened. I don’t know whether that was because he was feeling the effects of the knockout or something else. If Dirrell was faking, then he might have not known how to act. I don’t whether Dirrell was hurt or not. All I do know is that I didn’t see any tears falling down his face when he was seemingly crying.
That was what struck me as kind of strange. When I see persons crying and no tears coming out, I tend to think they’re acting. When a person is genuinely upset, like in the loss of a loved one, it’s not something you can control. So for Dirrell to be crying and nothing coming down his face in the way of tears, I’m left wondering why that was.
Perhaps it was just a case of Dirrell just whining and not crying. It’s really hard to tell. Not too many people have said anything about Dirrell crying, so maybe it’s not a big deal with anyone. It just seemed a little strange to me that there weren’t any tears.
Abraham said after the fight that Dirrell was “a good actor.” I don’t know. If Dirrell was acting, I wouldn’t call it good acting, because a good actor would have been able to produce tears and I saw none from Dirrell last Saturday night. I don’t know if Dirrell was really hurt or not, but I guess I have to believe he was because no one in their right mind would go trough all the trouble to fake being knocked out.
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Dirrell is fast and skilful Abraham is strong and exposive.
1) The tenth round knock down not being counted proved beyond doubt to all that the referee was biased…..well, perhaps the racist black Americans aren’t convinced but they’re the kind who still insist OJ isn’t a murderer and Michael Jackson didn’t molest kids and they’re all descended from the children of Israel.
2) The blow in the elleventh round was illegal and a warning should have been given, no doubt.
3) Direell clearly took the cuff round the head and looked up for a second, thought about it for another second then decided to fall on his back and ‘twitch’ around.
4) Dirrell had been shipping a few heavy bombs by this time and he couldn’t face another round and a half because he was exhausted and worried about the power of Abraham.
5) Conclusion: Dirrell is a skilfull boxer and a despicable man. And Americans have no sense of fair play at all.
to the guy that said “Don’t you know Arthur was gonna nail him”……After 11 rounds there was no big punch from Arthur unless his strategy was to get his ass handed to him until a late round KO. The momentum wasn’t even swinging that much when the fight was stopped. Dirrell could have just ran the rest of the way to a huge win.
WHERE THE HELLS THE TEARS?
@ Wuss Crilliams,
What a pathetic excuse for an article. Every time I read your rubbish I am convinced that your are a sad little man with too much time on your hands, and very little brain power to occupy your wasted hours.
Grow a pair!
I can fully understand why WWE is so huge in the US after watching that Dirrell performance, I was quite embarrassed for him.
He was badly hurt round 10, and about to go shortly after, but AA can be blamed for not waiting that bit longer.
Funny. I like this article. Chris Williams, how old are you? You’re really funny but ironically you make a good point.
Dirrell looked stupid pulling that im-hurt-come-look drama, let alone crying.
Dirrell was crying only because he thought he’s little scheme had gone belly up.Don’t you know Arthur was gonna nail him.
the comments on here seem vaguely racist. German fight fans come across as shameful fools, just jumping all over the opponents credibility wherever it seems fit (and I’m of German ancestry).
I don’t know when you guys all became acting experts. Dirrell got hit in the head when he was down and reacted like an emotional mess (which many people with head injuries do)
Multiple posters on here appear to think that Dirrell was in some sort of trouble as he was illegally KO’d. I don’t know which fight you were watching, since Dirrell was well on his way to winning the fight. Abraham looked slow, uncreative, and desperate (albeit powerful) Call Dirrell a coward all you want but he’s a far more talented fighter than Abraham. AA’s performance was really a disappointment.
Fighter- ok, here is another clip for you, …it is onl;y 24 seconds and this one is actually in slow motion….and it shows just how much force AA put behind the punch……..number one….this clip shows that the punch WAS NOT thrown at a “downward angle”……..number two…….it shows Dirrells head spinning sharply and quickly to the right from the blow…………..and number three……look at how AA was standing,……..he balanced his weight perfectly on his left leg and put all of his force into the blow from his right hand, and even had to catch himself a little from his forward momentum…..ihe put a lot of power in that blow, and his intent was to knock Dirrell out…..t is as clear as a bell…………………..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNzTA5Mr4gE
Fighter- like I said before, I dont know which fight you were watching, but here is the 11th round of the AA vs Dirrell fight……….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pupzzkY06_U…………………….The punch WAS NOT thrown at a “down angle”, and in regular speed you can see how much force AA put behind it. This clip doenst show the replays in slow motion were you can clearly see Dirrell head spinning to the side. And your recap of “Direll had time to look at AA in protest, start to verbally complain, fall down, roll over, ..AND then APPEAR to be out.complaining” is about as bias as you can get…….it wasnt like that seqeunce took several minutes to transpire…..more like 1 or at most 2 seconds, so I dont understand what you are looking for there.
and the punch was not thrown at a downward angle……I just watched it a few times on youtube……I dont know what you are talking about.
Fighter- you got to be kidding me………….you mean to tell me that Dirrell’s head didnt spin when he got hit by AA?????? Are we talking about the same fight????? The replays clearly showed Dirrells head snapping to the side from the punch.
Preston. I’m not trying to be personal, but you sound biased to me. I wanted Direll to win, and was disgusted at a few things. If you watch again, AA DID NOT throw as hard as he could, and Direll’s head DID NOT spin around. AA threw the punch on a downward angle. Also, How did this punch land flush, if Direll had time to look at AA in protest, start to verbally complain, fall down, roll over, ..AND then APPEAR to be out. I’ve seen enough ko’s (street, ring, cage) to know that that was acting, and a poor job at that. Watch again if you have DVR or youtube, or whatever. You’ll see. When AA broke JT’s guard, it was a perfectly placed punch. JT’s guard was up, but the punch touched virtually none of Jt’s gloves. There was no resistance, and JT thought his guard was up, and therefore was relaxed enough to be rocked. Almost like getting hit with the punch we don’t see. That punch need not be our hardest, but only go undetected. The ones you don’t see are the worst. I’m not making excuses, as AA got what he deserved, a DQ. And Direll HAD slipped on the same spot once earlier.
I just wish this whole thing never happened so we could see the result. I personally think Direll (based on this performance) lacks the ring intelligence and grit, to finish if in trouble. He seemed to panic, and stray from what had been working, once he got hurt. He opted to run with his chin in the air, than to tie up, stick, tie up, jab, stay off the ropes…until the end of the round. He also has an ameturish habbit, of putting his hands at, or below his waist. He’s not that fast. That’s why this thing is called a science. There are rules to be likened to equations. No pulling back, t-up the temples, when fighting a southpaw, keep your left foot outside the lefties’ right foot. Basics to meticulus detail. This kid is lacking in basics. He has talent. And in the face of all this…he WAS winning, so I guess he deserves a modecum of respect.
and another thing…….doesnt AA have 25 KO’s in the 31 fights that he has won???? And these knockouts were against guys that were trying to defend themselves. So, knowing that AA clearly has some serious power in his punches, how in the hell can ANYBODY say that Dirrell was faking from taking that shot??? That was not a soft punch or a glancing blow….that was a vicious shot from one of the most dangerous punchers in the division to a defenseless fighter.
bravo ,, williams is at it again writing masterpiece of a blog about guess what crying and tears, this blog proved again how retarded this guy is, quit bloggin about boxing and focus on something else like those latino drama where the actors cry alot,, stupid blog from a stupid blogger
In due time Direll will be found to be a mediocre fighter with some skills and no heart
I am still trying to figure out how is it that people were soo sure that AA was going to knock Dirrell out had the fight continued, but say that Dirrell was acting when AA clearly hit him with an unabated head shot that spun Dirrells head around liek a bottle top. You cant have it both ways….if you truly believe that AA was on the verge of knocking Dirrell out, then there is no way that you can say that Dirrell was acting after taking that shot. When you watch the punch in regular speed, AA put all of his force into it, and it clearly spun Dirrell’s head around, and it clearly drew blood from his nose, and if Dirrell was not able to continue because of it, which he wasnt, then AA should have been DQ’ed. I have seen guys KO’ed and knocked silly from punches that didnt seem as nearly as hard as the one that AA threw against Dirrell…….AA knocked Jermain Taylor out with a punch that went thru Taylor’s guard, and I couldnt believe that it did the damage that it did, but Taylor was knocked out cold from it.
Remember Manny Pacquiao hitting Juan Manuel Marquez while he was down during his third knockdown of their first fight? Was that called illegal? NO! why? bacause that was spontaneous. Abraham is on the attack and it is understandable. I dont believe AD is hurt. He has enough time to look at his opponent, find time to react also and acted. AD’s got no hurt. Marquez does even after being knocked down thrice.
Gents, Dirrell may or may not have faked it. We don’t know. What WE KNOW is that he was hit by an illegal blow, while down after slipping on AA very wet corner. An illegal blow is an automatic disqualification. In case any of you boxing Einsteins are thinking that AA got disqualified because he’s an European fighting in the US, remember that the exact same thing happened to everybody’s favorite Roy Jones Jr.
And in case you don’t know, AA fakes a lot and gets away with it in Germany (love that country, best beers, best night life, best girls…)
I notice alot of, fans of boxers seem so in love with their particular favorite, that all reason seems to go by the wayside. I’m not going to say that this was a boring fight, or that Direll is garbage, or any of that nonsense. Clearly he has a modecum of skill, as he made AA look shameful. He should have felt that way anyway. He should get back to the drawing board, and learn how to fight slick boxers. Having said that, I do however, call into question his heart. He is good, but has flaws. He can be trained on how to keep his hands up, to stop pulling back with his chin up and hands down, he can be taught that it’s not a good idea to switch leads. You can’t learn to courage. You either have heart, or you don’t. I think this boils down to his lack of heart. If you go back, and look at it, he took the intentional blow, and looked up at AA, then began to complain, and then went down, thrashe a little bit, …and then suddenly lost consciousness. If anybody thought that was real, they either never been in a fight, never REALLY watched boxing, or are helplessly obsessed with AD. On the other hand, I read other posts, and it seems that some of the sheeple who back AA, think he would beat Direll. For all Direll’s flaws, he still made AA look like a sparring partner…one that needs replacing at that! It took him 10 rounds to FINALLY figure out how to catch Direll. I think that if Direll had the stones, he could have stayed away, and jabbed his way to an eassy victory. It would not have served him well though, because he would be all swelled up on the win, and not got back to basics. Now that he got touched, maybe his trainers will slap him around, and get him to put his hands up.
Oh, and I thouroughly agree that the ref dropped the ball on the 10th round thing. Direll got dropped, legitimately, as AA landed a punch followed by AD’s promp visit to the canvas. But I also have to speak to the silly chap who tried to say that a foul’s a foul, and AD’s low blows called for DQ as well. You, and anybody who sounds like you, are an idot. A low blow, is something you get a warning for. Traditionally, you get a few warnings, before a point is taken, then further action if it continues. Ask Roy JJ. He did the same thing, and he got the same treatment. You whiners need to toughen up a bit. if it’s good for the, then, legendary RJJ, it’s good enough for a propped up, flat footed cheating whiner. I never seen anybody complain to the ref so much. He had his beltline high, and when the BELTLINE was hit, it was on the side. Since when are balls located at your side?
Why are you soooo surprised>?
When you go on a marathon… you become dehydrated… plus the bad acting!!
I always say it.. Dirrell.. a chicken on a scooter.
he was de-hydrated after all that running, so he had no tears left !! simples !!
@Edgar
You should choose your words carefully, I highly doubt you have ever boxed or even been in a fight in your life. These guys risk there lives in the ring, with one punch it can all end, to say the things you say is really sad. You have no respect and obviously no idea what you are talking about. Maybe you should watch Nigel Benn vs McClellan and then see what you have to say.
Direll’s place is kitchen!!!he simulated!he even didn’t guess that won.he thought he lost that’s why he was crying like mummy’s daughter.Direll you know if fight between you and AA will reapet,you are dead!!!!!!!!!!!!So enjoy your “victory” which gifted you judges…
Again:
YES Dirrell was much better during the first 5 rounds !
Then the fight got more balanced with a optical better looking¨Dirrell.
After round 9 Dirrell simply run out of Gas !
It dont matter if you are the better boxer or more watever, you
must be able to go 12 rounds flatout !
Dirrell knew he was history, especially knowing that Abraham has won most of his fights in the closing stages !
Dirrell simply cried for help from the familiy, press, referee and the spectators, acted well on the floor . the rest is history…..
Abraham is a real MAN – Dirrell a fast Chicken !
ANDRE IS ACTING HE KNEW ABRAHAM WAS GOING TO KNOCK HIM OUT. WHEN YOU GET KNOCKED OUT YOU DONT PAUSE AND LOOK AT THE REF YOU JUST GO DOWN COLD. I BET IF THE REF WOULD HAVE STARTED COUNTING HIM OUT HE WOULD HAVE GOT UP
What kind of articles do they allow on this site? An article about whether or not a guy was actually crying because his tear ducts didn’t produce any tears….are you kidding me????????
Yes, of course, no doubt that Abraham should be publically tortured, tared, feathered and brought to death. On top of it, both Armenia and Germany should be destroyed, and thus brought to justice. There should never be a sports event, let alone boxing match, involving either country. The existence of germany and armenia should be extincted from the history books. From now on they shall be referenced by “the western country of fouling a downed opponent and thus robbing him from a well deserved victory”, and “the eastern country of …”.
CHH i think your wrong.
I think all the people on here have seen thousands of fights over the years and have seen such incidents on more than one occasion.
Theres a hell of alot of bitterness between alot of fans for alot of fighters on this website and alot of accustations and stuff is said.
But in all my time on here i have never read of a boxer accused of this type of thing ever.
But this time theres many many people saying it, as am i, i dont go for conspiricies and i try to write as honestly as possible and on this occasion i have to say it looked fake as hell.
Why are you still searching to find some reason not to accept the reality of the fight? Most of you don’t have a clue about boxing, head trauma, or physiological events. You’re just conspiracy theorists looking for something that isn’t there.
Watch the fight again. Watch the last 3 rounds. The only thing fishy is the smell of your theories.
Dirrell is a total faker. AA was going to get him out of there and Dirrell knew it. And yes, hitting while down is NOT an automatic DQ. Watch the Tua-Cameron fight when Tua hits Cameron not once but TWICE while he is down, and no DQ.
Arthur should get a rematch and not lose his unbeaten record over that acting job by Gumby Dirrell.
The referee CAN DQ a fighter for an egregious foul. It is at the referees discretion. The referee DID see the punch as a deliberate and dangerous foul, bad enough to warrant the DQ.
Very simple, isn’t it?
And yes, Dirrel was faking.
dive dive cie
@ dan. dirrell was acting like a coward cos he knew he would probably be knocked out by AA if he didnt put that oscar winning peformence on.
AA got DQ’d so this is all wash…but after seeing it all again I’m convinced that AD wasn’t that hurt. Initially I thought he was hurt bad. He was twitching on the canvas but then the showed the replay lol. He slips, gets hit, looks up at AA with a “c’mon dude” face, grabs the side of his face and now he’s out cold LOL u gotta be kidding me. He didn’t have to do all that cuz AA deserved to be DQ
I dont think he was running for his life, we all knew that Abraham was losing badly and so did he, he had to go on an all out attack and with Dirrell being so far ahead on points he could just ride it out and try to not get tagged by a lucky shot. He was under increasing pressure but he didnt look ready to go to me.
But he didnt shed tears cuz he wasnt really crying. Just like he wasnt really knocked out, wasnt really twitching and wasnt really dellusional about what was going on around him. He was acting.
But make no mistake about it he was winning big time anyway.
his body was so dehydrated from making weight that he was unable to produce tears. many people dont realize this is one of many tactics for weight loss. people know about sweat suits, spitting in buckets, enema. at night many fighters will watch sad love stories to add in trying out their bodies through shedding tears. maybe guzman should have tried this tactic.
sorry meant to say without concussion or head trauma!
hitting someone when down can be considered a DQ if intentional, or different in heat of moment!The problem comes though whenthe recieving victim reacts as dirrel did. Lets face it the ref waived the dirrel knock down of earlier as if it was a slip when it was the most obvious and clear cut knock down of the fight so shows you where the ref was at! Yes Im afraid the ref had is bias as is often so in the US, so given the situation his bias and probably to stop the pro dirrel crowd the sheeples from going beserk he called a DQ . Did dirrel fake it yes i think so, in a earlier post someone pointed out dirrel held the wrong side of his face so was confused. No mate you dont get confused if the pain is bad you know exactly where to hold your hand! Dirrel dived , faked convulsions and then cried without tears , also saying i got knocked out what happened man, he had just answered his own question. Went to hospital had no head trauma or concussion and beleive me you dont get convulsions with concussion or head trauma fact. So in the famous words of sherlock holmes elementary my dear watson, the facts speak for themselves and the evidence is conclusive, without any element of doubt dirrel took a dive end of !
His tear ducts were damaged by the blow to the head. He may never cry again.
You’re right man, Dirrell isn’t really a good actor. Not only did he produce no tears, everybody could see that he was faking, too.
So Abe really gave him more credit than he deserved. That’s in fact the kind of nice guy ole Abe is. I’m not though, hence my verdict: no oscar for Dirrell! Do better next time. I trust we’ll see some more attempts at similar performances in the future.
Rob,
Yes, boxers can go their whole lives without that happening to them, however, most boxers don’t pretend to be going into convulsions despite having literally no head trauma.
It’s not only fishy, it’s disgraceful. Hope there’s a rematch.
King D says:
April 1, 2010 at 4:19 am
Black men don’t cry. Period! A reason why their was no tears.
YEH THEY JUST WHINGE AND WHINE AND RUN AWAY!!
He wont win the super six, you need heart to be a champion.
People shouldnt be so hard on dirrell…. he had his guts removed as a kid… he cant help it lol
NO one reallly mentions his cryinG ebcause its embarrasing, even for people who hate him lol.
Black men don’t cry. Period! A reason why their was no tears.
Stu –
I agree, hitting while down is NOT a DQ. It happens a lot and like Abraham says “it’s normal”.
The only reason it caused a DQ was because of Dirrell acting “ability”. In the slow-mo you can see that Abraham barely connected and Dirrell “took a dive”. The guy lacks heart on a massive scale and in a known whiner. Yes it was an illegal punch by Abraham but that really is part and parcel in boxing. Dirrell saw an opportunity to end the fight by staying down and he took it.
I agree sir !
Dirrell wasn’t acting!
First of all, he didn’t expect AA to hit him when he was down. That’s why he was truly surprised when he was hit by that right hand. You can’t fake that. You can fake it if you see it coming a few seconds earlier or if you get hit low and you start bihing about it, but to be hit with a right hand like that… What if the ref decided to rule it was a technical knockout instead? Would AD risk it? Did he have a chance to think about all of these scenarios whil he was down???
The answer is no!!!! He was truly buzzed by that right hand- that’s why he didn’t really know what happened. How can you tell how a fighter would react to a particular shot? It’s not an exact science where everyone responds the same.
The only reason people say AD faked it is that they can’t stand it when a good boxer beats the hell out of a beast and even knocks him down in the process.
just a correction to anyone who thinks this: hitting while down is not an “automatic dq”.
in fact it is very rare for it to be a dq. rjj hit montell griffin twice when he was down. montell, frankly, play acted just like dirrell, despite being ahead on the cards. soto was completely wrongly dq-ed for hitting while down against lorenzo. they are the only 3 times i can think of it being a dq.
on the other side nigel benn repeatly hit barkley when he was down, pac clocked jmm when he was down & didn’t even get a warning, margarito leathered cotto while he was down, mayweather hit gatti when he was down, tua got away with it against cameron, khan got away with it against kristensson, johny jensen got away with it a bunch against canatore, lennox lewis got away with it against acey, norris got away with it against leonard & there are loads more.
it is not an automatic dq. it is not even an automatic dq if the other guy can’t continue…altho dirrell made damn sure that everyone knew he was “unable to continue”. i wouldn’t say it was the “right” decision by the ref…but it may not have been the “wrong” decision. what it will hurt is dirrell’s rep. he disgraced himself against froch in many peoples eyes…& now again against aa. he’s a very good boxer but he does himself & the sport a disservice. milking fouls is pathetic. imo that is what dirrell did. you can argue…fine…but dirrell has proved he is that type of fighter so i see no reason to give him the benefit of the doubt. it’s just yet another example of dirrell taking the easy way out.
What the hell is going on here??? Does anyone know boxing? Hasn’t anyone seen a fighter’s delayed reaction from a punch before? Has anyone seen a fighter delirious after getting knocked out? Marlon Starling anyone? Montel Griffen? Tito Trinidad? Dirrell was knocked OUT. The brain reacts in strange ways. The closed eyes were involuntary. So was the leg shaking. Almost impossible to fake that. His eyes rolled back. If he was aware of his win, would he really be acting in this babbling moron fashion? He.. was.. DELIRIOUS!! Get real, people! And I am an Abraham fan!
Oh, and by the way? The report just came out. Dirrell indeed has a concussion. Happy now? There were no tears? Ask your doctor about the effects of a concussion. I’m out. Peace.
some people are blind deaf and dumb and that includes chris williams and all you other stupid fckssssssssss who dare talk about faking anything.. it was a classless act by a desperate man who couldnt take missing any more punches like he did all night..
he had one knockdown to dirrells two and yes he was coming on but he needed to have faith in boxing and not turn to street fighting… he will be lucky not to be suspended
yep he faked the hole thing. AA was right, he is a good actor. AA was getting stronger and AD weeker. I hope they fight again.
I think if Dirrell was faking, he must have a great chin. Also he raised his right hand even though he was hit on the left, which I think was because he was not thinking too straight at the moment lol but who would be, after a shot like that.
Doesn’t matter, AA got DQ’d for the right reasons. Dirrel didn’t need to do any acting for AA to get DQ’d. Dirrel would have won the fight if it went the distance anyways. Given a shot like that when you’re down could affect the outcome in the next round if Dirrel chose to continue. AA should man up and say he did something illegal instead of acting like a little B1tch and saying he’s a good actor. AA got beat up the whole fight and it showed on his face that night.
AA lost, yes, but facts are facts, my friends.
Dirrell tested negative for all forms of head trauma, all forms of concussion. With is performance that night, a reasonable person would expect at least a grade 1 concussion, at least. Yet, Dirrell didn’t even sustain a migraine.
You can’t deny that this is a little more than fishy. Please, try to explain that away, Dirrell fanboys.
the people who say dirrell was faking it to get out of the fight are dumb. when a fighter hits another fighter while there down it’s an automatic DQ. Abraham lost regardless of whether Dirrell was faking.
why was aa looking beat up after the fight lol i no why the beating dirrel put on him if you think about it he should really be leading the supere six
aa lost end of story