By Scott Gilfoid: In a fight that’s slipped off the radar screen of boxing fans, unbeaten super middleweight contender Anthony Dirrell (23-0, 20 KO’s) faces the powerful contender Renan St Juste (23-2-1, 15 KO’s) in a 12 round bout on Showtime on December 2nd at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California.
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Anthony Dirrell likely to get a fight against Ward in 2012
By Scott Gilfoid: With WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) on the brink of fame after he soundly beats WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch in December in the Super Six finals, Ward will be turning his attention to his next fight in 2012.
Anthony Dirrell ranked #1 by WBC, Froch’s days as champion are numbered
By Scott Gilfoid: The World Boxing Council (WBC) has pushed unbeaten Anthony Dirrell (23-0, 20 KO’s) to the number #1 spot in the WBC rankings in the super middleweight division. This is bad news for the WBC champion Carl Froch, because next to the talented Andre Dirrell, his brother Anthony is the next best thing that the WBC has to offer.
Bute vs. one of the Dirrell brothers a possibility
By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0, 24 KO’s) is considering a fight against one of the Dirrell brothers – either Andre or Anthony Dirrell, according to Ringtv. It’s still in the discussions stage and it’s unclear if Bute will face only one or both of the brothers.
Anthony Dirrell vs. Daryl Salmon this Friday
By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated Anthony Dirrell (19-0, 16 KO’s), the talented brother of super middleweight contender and former Super Six tournament participant Andre Dirrell, will be fighting this Friday night against Daryl Salmon (16-5, 4 Ko’s9 in an eight round bout at the Buffalo Run Casino, in Miami, Oklahoma. With Andre on the shelf temporarily due to some neurological problems he’s suffering from getting fouled in his last fight against Arthur Abraham, Anthony Dirrell will start in where Andre left off.
Froch not sure who will win between Dirrell and Abraham – News
Photo credit: Photo Wende – By Scott Gilfoid: After struggling badly to beat the speedy, talented Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) by a highly controversial 12 round split decision last October, World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) isn’t sure who will be the one that comes out on top this Saturday night between Dirrell and Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s) at the Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit, Michigan. In a press release sent earlier today, Froch, 32, had this to say about the Dirrell-Abraham fight: It will be a brutal knockout by Abraham or a boring points decision by Dirrell…Come on Abraham, catch him sweet.” There you have it. Froch isn’t sure who will win.
Abraham-Dirrell: Look for Andre to make Arthur look slow
By Scott Gilfoid: The stage 2 Super Six bout between Arthur Abraham and Andre Dirrell may well be the best fight that boxing fans will get to see during the entire Super Six tournament.
It matches two contrasting styles that are hard to ignore. On one side you have Abraham, a slow moving, slow punching slugger who tends to do very little punching for the first five to six rounds of every fight as he likes to conserve energy.
Shaw: “Maybe we [Dirrell] should have traded from round one” [with Froch]
By William Mackay: In an article at the BBC, previously undefeated super middleweight contender Andre Dirrell’s manager Gary Shaw admitted after the fight that Dirrell should have fought differently against WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch last Saturday night, commenting “we kept telling him [Dirrell] to box, but after watching him in rounds 10, 11 and 12, trading with Froch, maybe we should have traded from round one.”
Angulo crushes Rosado, Dirrell Outclasses Contreras – Boxing Results
By Jim Dower: Light middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (16-1, 13 KO’s) easily defeated Gabriel Rosado (12-4, 7 KO’s) by a 2nd round knockout in a scheduled 10-round bout at the Buffalo Bill’s Star Arena, in Primm, Nevada. Angulo, ranked #5 in the World Boxing Council, #6 WBA, #8 WBO and #9 IBF, dropped Rosado, 23, three times in the 2nd round.