By Scott Gilfoid: The Super Six semifinal match-ups between Andre Ward vs. Andre Dirrell, and Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham will be taking place on November 27th, according to boxing news from ESPN. It appears that Dirrell and Ward’s management teams have gotten beyond their impasse and found a neutral location for their Super Six tournament fight. One great benefit of both fights taking place on the same night is that they will be shown as a “split continent doubleheader,” meaning that boxing fans will be able to see the bouts back to back without waiting for later in the day.

The Abraham vs. Froch fight will now be held in Helsinki, Finland. It was supposed to be taking place on October 2nd, in Monaco, but Froch injured his back and couldn’t make that date. It’s unclear why the venue was changed to Helsinki. The only question about the November 27th date is whether Froch’s ailing back will be healed enough for him to take the fight at that time. With his back injury, there’s a potential that it could still be giving him problems even two months from now and that would put a big monkey wrench into the plans of having him fight Abraham on that date.

Abraham is tired of waiting for Froch, as he’s already had to wait for a neutral venue to be found after Froch said he wouldn’t fight Abraham in Germany. Abraham last fought way back in March, losing by a 11th round technical decision to Dirrell. Abraham is used to fighting every four months and he’s already been waiting six months for Froch. By the time he enters the ring to fight Froch, if the fight does take place in November, Abraham will have been out of action for 8 long months. Under normal circumstances, Abraham would have been able to fight two times during that eight month period. He’s basically lost one payday during this waiting period.

The Ward-Dirrell fight could end up being the fight of the Super Six tournament, as both of these fighters have amazing talent and incredible boxing skills. Ward has easily beaten his first two Super Six tourney contestants Mikkel Kessler and Allan Green, and he’s now considered to be the likely winner of the tourney. However, Dirrell has the skills to neutralize everything that Ward can do and bring him down to earth. We could see Dirrell emerge as the winner of this bout and move on to take on the Froch vs. Abraham winner. I suspect Abraham will beat Froch by knockout, which will set up a rematch between Dirrell and Abraham. Dirrell already dominated Abraham in March.