By Scott Gilfoid: We might not have a date for the Super Six semifinal bout between Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) and Andre Ward (22-1, 13 KO’s), but the fight will be taking place, either on September 25th or later in October. This fight will happen, and it’s going to produce the eventual Super Six tournament winner.

There’s too much talent in this fight for it not to produce the tournament winner. This is basically the all-star fight of the entire tourney and it’s going to be interesting to see who comes out on top. Ward has looked superb in defeating Mikkel Kessler and Allan Green in the his first two fights of the Super Six tournament, and Dirrell has looked almost as good in splitting his two fights.

I’m not the only one who believes that Dirrell should be unbeaten in the tournament, because he looked dominating in his controversial 12 round loss to Carl Froch last year in October. Dirrell was rarely hit at all in the fight. The only time that Froch was able to land anything at all was when he was holding onto Dirrell and clubbing him with shots.

The referee didn’t seem to have a clue with how to manage the fight and it got really sloppy as the bout progressed. But Dirrell bounced back from the loss to Froch by beating Arthur Abraham in his next fight. That was Dirrell beating the fighter that a lot of boxing fans felt was the guy that would win the entire Super Six tournament.

And yet Dirrell made Abraham look amateurish for most of the fight until was fouled by Abraham in the 11th.

I expect Ward to be attacking Dirrell much like he’s done in his fights against Kessler and Green. The difference here is that Dirrell won’t just stand there in a small box like Kessler and Green did. Ward and his trainer had already noticed that Kessler fights in a small square in his bouts and doesn’t seem to move much beyond a little patch in the ring.

All Ward had to do was make Kessler move his feet and then take him apart with spearing attacks. They also noticed that Kessler couldn’t fight on the inside. It was easy then for Ward to come in, land some hard combinations in close and then get away before Kessler could do anything at all.

With Green, all Ward had to do was bull him to the ropes and then lean and pound away to the body and head. Green didn’t have the strength or the presence of mind to realize that it was suicide to stay trapped on the ropes and try to fight Ward that way. Dirrell isn’t a fighter that falls into those same categories. He doesn’t just stay in one square when fighting.

Indeed, Dirrell moves all around the ring, moving more than Ward even. He also doesn’t let his opponents come inside and fight him the way that Ward did with Green and Kessler. Instead, Dirrell will move away when his opponents try to get him to fight on the inside.

In his fight with Froch, it was a different matter. Froch held onto Dirrell and clubbed him with his free hand. The referee should have caught that and stopped Froch from throwing rabbit punches and hitting holding. But the referee seemed to have a leave it alone approach to the fight and let the fighters just go at it.