By Scott Gilfoid: A year after being hurt by a shot to the head by Arthur Abraham in the Super Six tournament last March, the talented Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) has finally been cleared by his doctor to return to the ring and resume his promising boxing career. At the time that Dirrell was injured from a punch by Abraham after Dirrell has slipped on the canvas in the 11th round, Dirrell has been looking incredibly impressive in the Super Six tournament.

Dirrell dominated Carl Froch, losing by what many people believe was an old fashioned home town decision. And in the Abraham fight, Dirrell was boxing circles around Abraham and was on his way to winning what would have been an easy fight.

Dirrell was cleared to resume training as of February 1st, according to Mlive.com. Dirrell had this to say in the Mlive.com interview: “When I fought Carl Froch, everybody thought I won the fight. The world saw that. The world knows I won the fight and it was a good fight for me. Moving on to Arthur Abraham, I totally dominated him. It was a picture perfect performance until the late hit. Like one reporter said, ‘he tarnished a Picasso.’ I am on the brink of exploding.”

Yes, Dirrell should be undefeated right now looking to resume his domination of the super middleweight division. Dirrell wants to fight WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward in the near future, but that fight will have to wait awhile so that Dirrell can get the rust off and destroy one or two fighters before we can see that fight.