By Scott Gilfoid: Top super middleweight talent Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) says he’ll be back in the ring fighting in 3 to 3 1/2 months according to his twitter account. Dirrell, along with Andre Ward, are the two premier fighters in the super middleweight division. Dirrell hasn’t fought since being fouled last year by Arthur Abraham in the Super Six tournament.

Dirrell, 27, has been sitting out of action for the past year dealing with headaches and dizziness from the shot he took from Abraham after slipping on the canvas in the 11th round last March 27th. Abraham was disqualified for the foul, and Dirrell went home the victor but at a steep price. The headaches have since disappeared and Dirrell has been given the all clear to fight by his doctor.

It’s still too early to know who Dirrell will be fighting in his first fight back, but it will likely be a quality fighter. Dirrell isn’t someone that believes in taking on soft touches in order to pad his record. He’s probably going to take on at least a fringe contender in his first fight back.

Although Dirrell has one loss on his record from his fight with Carl Froch in 2009, you can still consider Dirrell unbeaten because Dirrell appeared to win that fight by a lopsided margin. I had Dirrell winning eight rounds to three with one even, and that was me being incredibly generous to Froch. I actually think it was an more lopsided fight than that because the only clean shots that I could see Froch landing in the fight was when he was holding onto Dirrell and pounding him with rabbit shots.