Dirrell: “He [Froch] better have a Plan B and a Plan C” for Abraham
May 17th, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Dirrell thinks that former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) will have major problems with the punching power of his next opponent Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) in his Super Six tourney fight in September. On Friday Night Fights, Dirrell had this to say about Froch:
I absolutely agree with Dirrell. Although there is a perception by some boxing fans that Froch can’t be knocked out, I see him getting badly hurt and knocked out by Abraham unless Froch fixes his defense by the time he fights Abraham. Even then, I think there’s a high chance that Froch will still get knocked out, mainly because his tendency to want to trade shots. Froch will go right into the teeth of Abraham’s offense and be there for his big punches when he starts up his offense at some point in the fight.
I doubt that Abraham will score a 1st or 2nd knockout, though, because he’s often a slow starter, but I think Froch will make it easy for him once he does start throwing his bombs. I seriously doubt that Froch will change his bad habit of keeping his hands down by his waist by the time he fights Abraham. I think Froch will likely fight that way for the remainder of his career.
As such, Froch will have to depend on his chin to take Abraham’s massive shots. It’s all well and good that Froch has been able to take some massive shots in his last three fights against Jermain Taylor, Andre Dirrell and Mikkel Kessler, but it can’t be doing him any good to be getting hit so cleanly and so often with bone jarring shots again and again. If Froch has to take massive shots from Abraham for 12 rounds, I think his chin will finally betray him and he’ll wind up getting knocked out.
It’s too bad, because another loss for Froch will knock him out of the Super Six tournament and I was hoping he’d stick around long enough for me to see a rematch between him and Dirrell. Froch beat the talented Dirrell by a questionable 12 round split decision last year in October in a fight that was held in Froch’s home city of Nottingham, England. Two of the European judges scored the decision for Froch, while the third gave it to Dirrell. In his last fight, Froch lost a 12 round unanimous decision to Kessler on April 24th in Kessler’s home country of Denmark. Froch thought he won the fight.
I thought he clearly lost the fight. Froch now doesn’t want to fight Abraham in Germany for fear of not being able to win a decision there. As of now, no one knows where their fight will take place. There has been talk of it happening in Switzerland, but Froch is still trying to get the fight to take place in Nottingham in a football stadium. I don’t think it really matters where it takes place. I see Froch getting knocked out by Abraham whether it is in Nottingham, Switzerland or Germany. Abraham hits too hard and Froch is wide open defensively and very hittable.
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Abraham would ko`Froch in 6. Froch has no diffence. I wish it could be in Notingham so Froch would get ko´d da f outta ther in front of his crowd. Everybody saying Dirrell is the most talented of the super six is a true “boxing novice”, Andre Ward will beat him in an all boxing match. I see a Andre Ward vs. Mikkell Kessler 2 for the final, no question who ill be the winner there.
why cant you say may chi ken on when you are refering at mayweather?
Cause Mayweather is afraid of Pacquiao.
Andre “The Great” Dirrell will win the super 6.
It’s actually AA who needs a plan B and maybe C.. If he continues to start slow over the first 4-5 rounds then by that time i think the heavy leather blows from Froch will be starting to take there toll!
Will be a good fight!
Im a Froch fan, but I genuinly believe that he somewhat scared of AA. The fact that he has no defense what so ever isn’t a good look. AA will K him TFO, without any remorse.
Direll outbox Abraham and won that fight no doubt about it,but he showd us he would rather take the easy way out,in my opinion Direll is a skilled boxer,an excelent fighter,but he’s got no heart of a true warior!
Would any of these alternate plays include diving through the ropes or faking a KO by chance?
Ward the best in this tournament, he is too smart. His biggest challenge would be dirrell
What boxing fan would ever listen to what that coward Direll has to say about who wins and who loses in Boxing
Froch will gonna shock allot of people when is gonna win over AA, but i am very curious on stage 3 fight between Andre Ward vs. Andre Dirrell….a draw!!! … in Oakland again ? come on
) Both guys for semi
Why not in Vegas the last group stage ??? no fans? let’s be serious …
Dirrell is an amatuer. Abraham is a knockout puncher, a real boxer, what the fans go to see. dirrell got exposed after his fight with AA, becuse he showed that he has no heart.
This article is spot on! It’s shedding more and more light on why froch so suddenly threatened to ‘pull out‘ of this tournament… it would take a multi-dimensional fighter to have plans beyond ‘Plan A‘… and even froch fans can testify that he oesn’t even have a Plan ‘B‘ (.. let alone ‘C‘).
Ricky Hatton is a hell of a lot more talented than Froch, yet even he failed to do away with long term bad habits of trying to rough up Manny Pacquiaou… and look what happened ! One can only blame Floydd Mayweather Senior if Hatton followed instructions and still got sparked out.. but he didn’t !
Froch on the other hand has Robert McKracken in his corner, who’s already lost to Abraham before when he coached Howard Eastman (.. who had more technical know how than froch, hence lasted the distance). Against Dirrell, he hit fresh air in a lateral permutation to where Dirrell’s head actually was.. and the Nottingham fans cheered like Dirrell was floored !
Having said that, froch does have a knock out punch.. and I believe his only chance of winning is to take risks, and pray that he doesn’t get wet whilst in the rain !
This fight will end with the 3rd KO-win in a row for AA!
I regard the fight of AA vs Dirrell as a robbed KO-win for AA. Dirrell and the judges are pink pussies: AA would have won by KO at the end of round 11, for sure!
I am looking forward to watch the next fight of AA the biggest puncher since the young Mike Tyson, on a pound for pound basis!
Froch beat direll
direll beat Abraham
= froch beating Abraham
@Punk
Dirrell distroyed AA for 10 rounds… who’s fault is that? Blame Abraham for being a slow stater.
Stop hating on the best pure boxer in the game today.
The problem Froch has is that he should of beat Kessler. He was far to relaxed and laid back in that fight. Kessler was never going to knock him out so what was he doing? Everytime he started throwing combinations, Kessler looked like Mitchell the other night, like he didn’t know what to do. Froch threw that fight away through over confidence. Against Dirrell however, Froch attacked constantly, always on the front foot. Dirrell was away from home, his first title fight and Froch was a seasoned veteran by comparison. Froch was able to rattle Dirrell and throw him out of his game plan and steal the fight. He should be kicking himself over Kessler.
I have no idea how Froch is going to beat Abraham. I think Dirrell’s is the only style capable of beating Abraham but even he was lucky it didn’t go the distance. If Froch can find his range early and throw plenty of right hands he might get lucky but there is no denying that Abraham is the favourite for this fight.
@ Rudolph
Boxing novice, I like that ha ha. I have only followed the sport for almost 40 years…and over those years I have seen many, many weird decisions and foul blows landed, either Dirrell is the best actor I have ever seen or he really was KO’d by that AA foul blow, which (and I have watched it in slow motion many times) just didn’t look that clean, or heavy, to me. Either way I just don’t rate Dirrell very highly, and can’t stand this idiot Gilfoids endless articles applauding him.
easy fight for abreham
Abraham in 5.
Froch has never had a plan B or plan C. Hes always won doing the same thing over and over.
Id hoped that after really tough fights against Taylor and Dirrell that he cant just let his opponants do as they please winning rounds against him in the hope he was guna knock them out but he didnt he seemed to come across like he was the main man throughout the fight and had it all under control. Cuz he didnt.
Now im hoping that the defeat against Kessler has banged the fact into him that he cant just go walking around with his hands down tryin to throw bombs. He needs to get rounds in the bag and work for his oppertunities to throw bombs.
Also im worried about how much his trainers are stressing this to him. They certainly moan at him in the corner during fights but they dont act like hes thrown a complete game plan out of the window.
I do love a brawler but you gotta be honest and say even a brawler has to use his brain a little.
another biased yanky article by boxing biggest tit
One of the biggest punchers in boxing gets a free shot, hands on the canvas,no head movement. And people say Andre’s K.O. wasn’t for real? That’s not rational.
Dirrell the cheat, no one should folow his advice, runs like a girl all night, im glad Froch taught him a lesson, he should have stood like amn & fought isnt that right scott
Or dirrells favorite plan F for fake it!
Ha, ha
I think Froch will adjust and show a much higher workrate than he did against Kessler. Defence is paramount against Abraham and Froch is the bigger/taller guy here and should stop Abraham provided he is busy.
Punk u are ridiculous, Dirrell was wayyyy up on points and showed no signs of slowing down that would have been an easy win by a super large margin, plus how could he know that abraham was gonna throw a punch so late in such a clearly illegal situation. You are a boxing novice.
froch will win or lose like a true worrier unlike dismell
Or he could go for Dirrells plan D…pretend to get KO’d by a foul blow.
annyone of the super six will have to be at their best when fighting abraham. Perhaps Dirrell may have been KO,d if the fight proceeded.
i h8 to admit it but u are rite on this 1!