By Scott Gilfoid: Arthur Abraham was beaten for the third and final time in the Super Six tournament in a one-sided 12 round decision loss to WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward last Saturday night in Carson, California. It was one of those beatings where the fight should have arguably stopped around the 8th round when Abraham was looking badly over-matched by a talented Ward, who was putting on a virtuoso performance against him.

It was a slaughter and Abraham couldn’t do a thing to get competitive with Ward. Andre Dirrell, who had his way with Abraham in the Super Six tournament last year, had some good advice for Abraham. Dirrell suggests that Abraham move up in weight to the light heavyweight division, because he realizes that Abraham can’t compete at super middleweight after his three losses in the Super Six tourney.

Speaking on his twitter page, Dirrell said “Abraham it’s time to do like “THE JEFFERSON’S” and move on up!! Lol. He can’t make 160 and now we know he has no chance in 168, so he needs to go up….period, who’s gonna pay to see him in America? If Ward did all this I can’t imagine a Chad Dawson being much different for Abraham.”

I totally agree with Mr. Dirrell. Abraham needs to move up in weight to light heavyweight because he can’t make middleweight anymore and he doesn’t belong with the fantastic athletes in the super middleweight division. There are too many talents at that weight class. But Abraham might have a sliver of a chance of amounting to something if he moves up to light heavyweight. I mean I wouldn’t put him in with guys like Dawson or Tavoris Cloud, because that would be asking for another beating. But I think Abraham could give someone like WBO champion Jurgen Braehmer, Nathan Cleverly, Beibut Shumenov or Jean Pascal some problems if Abraham didn’t give up after three rounds and just cover up like he was doing with Ward.