Has the fat lady sung on Dirrell’s career?
December 29th, 2010
By Allen Hmiel: An Undefeated record and limitless potential seemed ready to spur Andre Dirrell to great heights. The Super Six Tournament was just a stepping stone to introducing the smooth light hitting Super Middleweight to the boxing world. But a hard looping punch landing on a sitting Dirrell thrown by a frustrated beaten Arthur Abraham brought Dirrell’s boxing career to a sudden halt. Not since Humpty Dumpty had his egg shell crack during his fall has a fighter fallen faster than Dirrell has.
Boxing fans will forever question if Andre ducked Ward out of friendship or did he have doubts about his ability to recover from the knockout by Abraham. When a fighter begins to question his own vulnerability and ability to rebound and comeback from a devastating knockout, he sometimes comes back a lesser fighter or never really comes back at all. Fans wonder, Promoters wonder and the fighter wonders what happens next? I am not sure if Andre is being given the correct career advice from his inside family of relatives or are the doctors informing Andre there are serious brain malfunctions and concerns of your ability to withstand another shot to the head? It is so sad to see such a state of confusion and so many mixed signals coming from the Dirrell camp. Hopefully he is getting the correct guidance and counseling needed.
If Andre Dirrell is to recover and box again in the future it will be a blessing and if he is not healthy enough to resume a once promising career, then wish him good luck in all future endeavors. Boxing can be rewarding and fruitful to some fighters but boxing can also be brutal and harsh to other fighters. Hope Andre get well and goes on to a healthy and successful life outside of boxing. Has the fat lady sung on Dirrell’s career?
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devastating knockout!?!?!?. idiot. it was a glancing blow that hit his cheek that AA threw. dirrell is a p*ssy and has no heart. he pulled out due to friendship and we all know it.
He shouldn’t have a problem getting a job in Hollywood.
Andre Dirrell needs to make an announcement soon to indicate if he is going to continue boxing.
He took full advantage of AA’s error once he twigged. A true Oscar Winning performance. It has back fired on him now.
Direll is a discrased fighter he will never be taken seriously as a fighter again
I have no worrys about Andre Dirrell finding a career outside of boxing, he is brilliant at acting and I really think that the fight with Arthur Abraham showed Andre that he has good talent!!
i really beleive he wanted to fight ward but was advised not to by his management. He has already lost to Froch and Ward was favourite, so they decided to pull him out
Well, he always has acting.
Shut up Gilfoid (or whoever you are). Just shut the hell up….
This website is just one big wind-up, and for that, I hope the owners of the website, and whichever 2 or 3 guys who write all the articles (because believe it or not everyone, that all there is….) all end up bound together and dumped in a tarantula pit somewhere in the Amazon…..
Boxing is the loser here because you guys are such utter UTTER ****s (pick a swear word, they’re all fitting)
Dirrel was more likely to get brain damage from the shots he took from Froch then from Abraham … honestly people know Abe hit him but only just and it was about 20% usual power
I’ve promised myself not to read or making any comments on scott gylfoid articles. I’ve thought that once that gilfoid will be proved that some of he’s two favorites (dirrel in this case)will be out of business for a lack o heart he will remain in silence. This article is almost in gilfoid style. I WILL NEVER EVER READ OR MAKE ANY COMMENTS ON gilfoid ARTICLES EVEN AS I DON’T THINK THAT WILL COUNT TOO MUCH.
Dirrell is history and I believe this is a good think for boxing.
Sad isn’t it? Look at the beating that Tommy Hearns took against Marvin Hagler, yet he still went on to win titles in the light-heavyweight and super middleweight divisions.
Dirrell took just one swipe on the chin by Abraham who is a good puncher, but not any better than some other middleweights I could mention and nobody has heard much from Dirrell since.
He needs to announce his return to boxing very soon.
Dirrells sick I tell you, he came to see me and asked for a note to get out of gym class and I gave him one!, I thought he meant get out of gym class for good and now he’s stuck with a fake brain injury!, he only wanted to duck Ward but now he’s got to try and prove he’s well from a non existent injury!.
needs to come back at light-heavy first and foremost.
he was the most gifted fighter in that tournament, i think he would have whooped ward… but boxing’s unforgiving so if he wasn’t ready to back in, he made the right choice.
he apparently struggled making 168, 175 should be perfect for him in that case and she should pretty much outbox any fighter in the lightheavy division. most of the guys from the supersix have intermated their desire to move up
Good boxer to watch when he is not running and cheating.
The punch from Abraham only glanced him.
Every time I watch boxing i see guys hit harder and more often. I have no idea what Dirrell is doing with his career but i knew all along we would not see him face Ward.
i never knew humpty dumpty was a boxer
the great dirrell? who did he fight? he faked injury againts AA and lost to froch
ducking Andre Ward is what have kill his career and only that have done it !!!