Dirrell: I’m chasing down Froch

By Boxing News - 07/05/2012 - Comments

Image: Dirrell: I'm chasing down FrochBy Scott Gilfoid: Super middleweight Andre Dirrell (20-1, 14 KO’s) has his eyes on the prize and wants a revenge rematch with IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch so bad he can taste it. This is why Dirrell has agreed to face a fighter that no one wants to fight right now in Adonis Stevenson.

Dirrell has agreed to fight Stevenson in an IBF eliminator bout on August 11th in Montreal, Canada. The fight will take place as long as Dirrell gets a good offer for the fight from Stevenson’s promoter. I wish I could say for sure that Dirrell will like what he sees with the green stuff offer, but I won’t blame Dirrell if he says no to it. They’re not going to get him on the cheap, and some promoters might think they can because of Dirrell’s long periods in between fights since suffering an injury in the Super Six tournament in 2010. But that’s okay. Dirrell doesn’t need the Stevenson fight if they’re not going to give him the cash that he wants, but hopefully they give him a nice tidy sum so that he can wet his beak until he gets a title shot against Froch.

Dirrell said to Mlive.com “I’m chasing down Carl Froch and he has the title once again. He’s in the spotlight once again and his hype never really died down to begin with.”

Yes, Dirrell wants to avenge his controversial loss to Froch. The two fighters fought in 2009 in Nottingham, and Froch was missing all night long. It was like he was fighting the invisible man, because he couldn’t lay a glove on Dirrell all night. Pretty much the only time Froch was able to land anything was when he was holding on Dirrell. In other words, holding and hitting, and the referee should have done something about it. I thought I was watching some kind of mix between MMA and professional wrestling, especially when Froch body slammed Dirrell on the canvas in the 5th round in front of the referee, who didn’t do a thing about it.

If the Dirrell-Stevenson fight gets made, Dirrell will school Stevenson and make it look easy. Stevenson is just like Froch with the way he loads up with every shot he throws. It’ll make it easy for Dirrell to make Stevenson miss and then come back and counter him.



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