By Jim Dower: If Andre Dirrell and Arthur Abraham both keep winning in the Super Six tournament, we could see those two fighting against in the semi finals or perhaps the finals of the Super Six tournament. That would be an interesting fight if it comes down. Abraham would have the revenge factor going into the fight, and one would hope he had learned to control his fouling ways. It might not matter, though, if the fight takes place in Abraham’s adopted country of Germany.

If the fight happens there, you can’t really say what would happen if Abraham started fouling. He might be penalized, but then again he might not. Hopefully, Abraham will have learned his lesson to control his emotions and focus on fighting hard earlier in the fight instead of waiting so long to get started. If Abraham thought he was good enough to wait until the last three rounds against Dirrell to try and score a knockout, I think he’s overestimated his own talent.

The Super Six tournament has too many good fighters for Abraham to slack off for nine rounds and hide behind his guard. If he fights like that against his next opponent Carl Froch, Abraham will get outworked and beaten. As of now, Abraham is still in the lead in the Super Six tournament with 3 points, ahead of Dirrell, Andre Ward and Froch, who all have two points apiece.

Abraham will likely lose his lead by the end of the stage 2 bouts, because Ward looks in good shape to pick up his second win of the tourney over Allan Green. That would give Ward four points. Froch has a tough match ahead of him against Mikkel Kessler on April 24th. If Froch can somehow fight well enough to get a win against Kessler in Denmark, then Froch could end up being tied for 1st place.

Abraham has to be busier than he was in his first two fights of the Super Six tourney. He can’t just wait until the later rounds and hope he can get his opponent. Abraham did the exact same thing in his fight with Jermain Taylor in his stage 1 fight. Taylor was much busier than Abraham in rounds one through eight. I had Taylor with a commanding lead going into the 9th round of that fight.

However, the judges were piling up rounds for Abraham, giving him credit for winning rounds based on landing some very low punch numbers. I didn’t see Abraham landing more than five or six punches per round until the 9th. But it shows how some judges’ care more about heavy shots compared to a fighter that is landing in high numbers. Abraham controlled rounds nine through eleven with Taylor, and took him out in the twelfth round. Abraham lives and dies by his knockouts, which is a bad thing.

You’ve got to have balance if you want to win the Super Six tournament. Abraham isn’t a big enough puncher to stop everyone in the tournament, so he’s going to work on his game or else he’s going to get beaten again next time he fights Dirrell.