Dirrell vs. Ward: The most perfect match-up in the Super Six tournament
July 28th, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: If there was ever a fight where it was next to impossible to pick the winner because of the immense talent between the two fighters, it’s the Super Six tournament fight between once beaten Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) and World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KO’s), who will go at on September 25th at a still to be determined venue. Both Ward and Dirrell have talent that the other Super Six tournament fighters would just die for. Dirrell, 26, has blazed a trail in his short five year pro career, beating all of his opponents except for the one glaring loss on his record to Carl Froch.
Ward has had easier than Dirrell, matched up against a slow Mikkel Kessler and a non-punching Allan Green. Ward looked great in those fights, showing incredible ability in being able to avoid the shots from Kessler and Green. Ward was simply a level or two above Kessler and Green, and his talent was just too good for them to compete with him. Had it been Froch in the ring with Ward, my guess Ward would spank Froch just as easy as he did Green and Kessler. Ward would have been able to adapt quickly once Froch turned the fight into a physical wrestling/MMA fight with his body slamming, pushing and rabbit shots. Ward would have stayed on top of Froch, punishing him with shot punches and paying him back when he would throw rabbit shots. There’s no way that the judges could screw up the scoring between Froch and Ward.
It’s really hard to tell who will win the Dirrell and Ward fight. They’re both so evenly matched. Everything that Ward does well, Dirrell does the same thing about the same. Dirrell may not be as good of an inside fighter, but he’s also smart enough to know he needs to stay away from mixing it up in close. Ward will have to try and get Dirrell to fight it out on the inside if he wants to have a chance at winning the fight. On the outside, Ward would have no chance whatsoever. As long as Dirrell uses his legs, moves a lot and tags Ward with short punches, then this should be an easy fight for Dirrell along the lines of his win over Arthur Abraham in his last fight in March. Dirrell will move, stick jabs in Ward’s face and do the opposite of what his last opponents have done. Because of their evenly matched talent, I can see this fight ending up in a 12 round draw over and over again. It’s one of those fights where they could fight 100 times and it ends up a draw every time.
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It’s funny how this tournament has become a Europe vs America tournament. With the Euro fans, the Euro fighters can do no wrong. There’s an excuse for everything they do be it against the rules, such as hitting behind the head or after the bell or basically everything Abraham and Froch did to Dirrell, or slow and boring just like the Froch/Kessler fight. In the mean time the American fighters r all scared runners that cheat too much by holding and (in the case of Ward) headbutting. While American fans see the American fighters as the slick, skilled, fast, and intelligent boxers they r. Euro fighters are seen as dirty, slow, and sloppy with an obsessed fan base that keeps this tournament from even being fun.
I said it from the beginning, Dirrell is the only fighter in the tourney that can beat Ward. Although I had my money on a Ward/Abraham final, I knew Ward would either be undefeated, or otherwise have 1 loss to Dirrell.
@ PETE YOU SHOULD WRITE THESE COLUMS BY REPLACING BIASED SCOTT.YOU HAVE TO WOUNDER IF CERTAIN PROMOTERS ARNT PAYING THES GUYS TO KEEP PUTTING OUT THEIR TRASH.THE WEB SITE DOESNT PAY THEM ANYTHING.
@ Boxbox go see COACH you might be the cure for his man love. you are priceless.
the most boring match ever more annoying than ward vs green match Abraham vs Froch is the most entertaining fight in the whole tournament
dont go to the fridge in this one.!
Scott you creep please get out of Dirrell and Wards arse you smarmy git. I feel embarrassed for you. I see this fight as just another fight between 2 over rated over hyped American fighters. Neither fighter is especially that great although Ward is decent and has potential. If Dirrell was that great surely he’d beat Froch by an absolute mile wouldn’t he, not lose to him, which I thought was the correct result. Most people think the fight was close so if Froch is so bad in your opinion, going by the fight being close, surely Dirrell can’t be that great.
After the super six is done I want Joe Calzaghe to come out of retirement and give the winner a boxing lesson.
@ ronnie
The Froch v Dirrell decision was not unfair and as for Dirrell beating Abraham, yeah really spanked the guy didn’t he! I wonder if he knows he won yet because he was spark out when he won wasn’t he?
A fight i definitely won’t be paying to see! Ward’s a nice guy but what an ugly fighter and Dirrell has no heart, I had never seen a fighter throw himself to the floor before watching Froch v Dirrell!
‘If there was ever a fight where i could be so excited that i sprayed hot-liquid-love all over my boyfriend’s face, it would be this fight’*
@ Pete
Calzaghe stayed in England until he knew it was safe to come out.
Just like May chi ken is doing today… May chi ken retired when Cotto and Margarito were his next opponents. Today, he doesn’t care about boxing because of a short guy called Pacquiao.
Steve, just found it Thanks! Your Mom emailed the address . . .LMAO!!
LMAO!!! That just mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Know count those!!! So sad that boxing has resulted to this. SMH! Good Luck Brits!
Scott Guilfoid reporting (as usual) from deep inside the depths of Andre Dirrels anus,
Your obviously American and have no sense of an exciting fight! Thats why the sport is on a down turn. Over protected dancers with smoke blown up their arse (not ass)!
are you retarded? “most perfect fight” ?!? WTF is up with you guilfoid?
this fight is going to be boooooring as hell. dancing, hugging, acting, bla bla.
froch vs abraham will be a good one! but not that one here.
scott ur a mad fanny!
Dirrell has showed the least talent of all considering the cheating in the last fight & then his capitulation in losing to Froch, Ward on the other hand has showed true talent
I agree wit Gilfoid on this one it is such a close thing to call. I give Andre Ward an edge simply because i see him more willing to take risks and i see him catching up wit Dirrell. Ward will catch him on the ropes and unload while coming in against a Dirrell who will fight backwards most of the night. But this could also end up in an fight wit ward headhunting and contius missing Dirrell. This one could go any way, but i belive it i`ll go the full 12 rounds.
you had direll beating froch didnt you scott?
Three of six fighters in the tourney are from the U.S. these are the Amateure ready,d pros.that made thier way up through alot of coaching.This fight in the big picture will in many peoples mind produce the tourney winner/?AA Carl Froch winner also high hopes.,unfortunately for Greene ,if he doesn,t show any better ambition than the last figh ,it will be his.
LOL…I would love to see at least ONE fight that Froch,Kessler,Abraham,Hatton,Khan and the other C list fighters lose, that their fans do not make ANY excuses for . . . oh guess what . . . THEY CANT!!! Learn to ACCEPT a lose, you should be used to it by know!!
You cant compete with the Elite. Thats just a FACT!! Make as many excuses as you want! Maybe even label them boring fighters, but they continue to punish your “C” list fighters time after time after time!!! No competition what-so-ever. No one in the super six has ANY chance of beating Andre Ward. NO ONE!! Go ahead make your EXCUSES, end result another WIN! LMAO!!!!
who wrestle quicker? who runs faster? perfect match indeed.
Noooooooooo Abraham vs Froch is the real fight, power, slugfest, bravery….
Ward vs Dirrel will be boring fight as Ward vs Green…clinch, counterpunch zzzzzz
froch clearly won the fight against dirrel,so your talking nonsense watch the fight again.
Its going to be boring, One running away the other trying to chase him. Abraham and Froch is where the action is at
i cant help it iam a shirt lifter i dont care who knows
Scott, you’re back!
British boxing has been quiet lately so i knew we wouldn’t see you for a while. Great to have you back. Really looking forward to you bigging up Americans and smashing the Brits.
All the Brits are rubbish!
Carl Froch is a donkey nose
Ricky Hatton is a fatty man
All Americans are super cool and brilliant and better than all the Britains forever!! Me and Scott RULE
Decent article Scott, but their is really no need to bring Carl Froch into it. You must really hate him or something
@roadkill- Pacquiao need rehab
how can i entertain you that even the article is not entertaining..even you a lame one..
it wont be poor to watch,…. if its tactical it will be fascinating to see two skillfull fighter dule it out. personally i dont think it will be tactical. i have a feeling ward will hussle and try to get inside. there will be a lot of countering and switch hitting from dirrell because he knows he cant run for 12 rounds.
@coward
your screen name and comments say it all about you my friend. please keep entertaing us.
Seriously Scott did Carl Froch do something to you? This is getting to be a bit sad to be honest, i mean every article. This was suppose to be about Ward-Dirrell,and you get sidetracked as per, talking about Ward versus Froch. You write some absolute garbage and should be removed from this site for good.
Everyone knows whats going to happen in this fight it should be sold as the (HEAD BUT AND HOLD) fight they have got alot of talent both of them ill give you that gilfoid its about time they used there skills propley tho.
If you truly are a boxing fan out there like me you just cant wait for the froch and abraham fight its going to be a classic cant wait.
as we know, asian and europian boxers are warriors and they fight for people.american boxers are cowards, they fight for money eventhough the people are not enjoying watching them..
@donnie
froch and abraham are the two most entertaining fighters to watch in supersix…this are the true warriors..
Im not a froch fan but he knows how to put on a war… froch vs kessler was amazing to watch… froch vs abraham someone is getting knocked out… ward and dirrel are talented but its will be poor to watch..
Ward will win because dirrell will be tired from bumming Scott the night before.
If he tries more acting to get out of the fight early he wont fool the ref again.
Can the writer get anymore anti british and hate froch anymore … he must be bangin the writers mum haha
froch did beat dirrel it was a very hard to score fight, u cannot win rounds by running away and when away from home you need to well beat a champion … that was what he didnt do, he only won 2 or 3 rounds outright
Amaricans wont admit it but Dirrel won negative tactics was his own downfall
to be fair scot predicted ward and dirrell would dominate and everyone just thought he was crazy. look what happened dirrell lost a unfair decision and beat abraham and ward has won both easily. he’s wrong about most things but he’s rite about this.
Abraham vs Froch , that’s the fight i can’t wait to watch.
agree with Pete
agreed coward
It is gonna be the worst fight in the super six
I can wait for this fight, I think i’ll tape it so I can watch it every morning (w*nk off to it) then write a really good article that won’t sound remotely like anything i’ve ever written before. Scott. Oh yeah I love dirrels talented spunk in my mouth
i think dirrell as the acting skills to beat ward comfortably
I still think Dirrel has a glass jaw and that is his achilles heel. Ward has been protected so far. I am not convinced.
Scott – Let me just put this in perspective for you. Joe Calzaghe was an immense talent. Dirrell struggled against Carl Froch and Arthur Abraham. Andre Ward has had two home town fights and it showed against Kessler. Both Ward and Dirrell would have been whooped by Calzaghe whose movement was bewildering. He made Lacy look like an amateur, he exposed Hopkins like no-one else had ever done before and made Jones look like an old fool.
He completely out-boxed, out-punched and out-thought Kessler without using any dirty tactics whatsoever. Now that was an immense talent. Ward and Dirrell have a lot to prove, an awful lot, before they can be described as immense talents.
this fight will suck. everyone knows this
@Dave Lahr get a Job
ofcourse floyd…the new era of boxers in america are all boring, not like time of ali,leonard and tyson..
Dear Scott, thanks for this awesome article! Now it’s for sure… Dirrell is your mom and Ward is your dad!!