By Joseph Hirsch: Six fights have taken place thus far in Showtime’s “Super Six World Boxing Classic.” Of the six matches, the home fighter has won in each and every instance. Before his bout with Mikkel Kessler in Herning, Denmark, Carl Froch was asked if he thought that hometown refereeing had anything to do with the outcomes of the fights.
Abraham vs. Taylor
Mcguigan says that Froch didn’t deserve to get win over Dirrell – News
By Scott Gilfoid: This maybe somewhat disappointing to many boxing fans of WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch but the talented boxing great Barry Mcguigan believes that Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) should have won the fight between him and Froch last weekend, according to an article from Mcguigan in The Mirror. Mcguigan, a former WBA featherweight champion and now an expert boxing analyst, says “Froch got the decision but in my view he didn’t deserve it.”
How Many Times Does Jermain Taylor Have to Be exposed?
By Jason Kim: Last Saturday night’s 12th round knockout of Jermain Taylor didn’t surprise me in the least. I saw it coming as soon as they announced he was facing Arthur Abraham in the Super Six tournament on October 17th. I think it was a bad idea for Showtime to invite the 31-year-old Taylor to the Super Six tournament, although I can understand why they did choose him.
Boxing Bitesize: La edición uno – Dirrell, Froch, Haye, Taylor, More
By Jordan Stoddart: Good day Boxing fans on both sides of the Atlantic and the millions watching worldwide! I thought it would be worth covering the most topical issues on this site, taking a lighter and fresher approach to some of the stuff floating about, maybe take a different angle to alienate the biased and nationalistic views that can sometimes crop up and cloud the sport. Here’ the weeks news in Bitesize.
Froch defeats Dirrell; Abraham stops Taylor – Boxing Results
By Edd Watson: Before the super six started, all we heard from the Americans was how good their fighters were and how they had fought much better opposition and how they’d wipe the floor with the “poor” Europeans. Arthur “The King” Abraham outclassed Jermaine Taylor and made him look very old before eventually knocking him out. Carl “The Cobra” Froch was and is average at best but he still managed to beat the very fast American Andre “The Matrix” Dirrell.
Why Froch Beat Dirrell: King Arthur reigns supreme
By Simon Hirst: On Saturday night, we started the Super Six Tournament of the super middleweight division with two mouth-watering bouts. From Germany, we had Arthur Abraham vs Jermain Taylor in a battle of the former middleweight champions. Before the fight started, I applaud Taylor for going over to Germany to fight Abraham, a place that is famous for giving questionable decisions in favour of the fighter with home advantage, so coming from America, Taylor must have knew his chances of winning on the card were slim.
Super Six: 2 Matches, 3 Answers, 4 Fighters
By Nikolaj Ovesen: Last night was the opening of the highly anticipated ´Super Six World Boxing Classic´ tournament. In the opening we saw two former Middleweight champions, Arthur Abraham and Jermain Taylor go up against each other, and we saw current Super Middleweight champion Carl Froch go up against Olympic bronze medalist Andre Dirrell. It was two fights that probably should have been a lot alike, since both fights presented a pressure fighter against a boxing type fighter. However, where one of the fights was beautiful, the other looked more like a street fight. I’ll return to that later.
Who would have won had Abraham not stopped Taylor in the 12th?
By Jason Kim: Taking away the 12th round knockout from the equation in the Jermain Taylor vs. Arthur Abraham fight, who would have won the fight if it had gone to a decision? I know who I had winning the fight and it wasn’t Abraham. At the time of the stoppage, I had Taylor ahead 6 rounds to 4 with 1 round even. Unless Abraham dropped Taylor a couple of times in the last round, I saw Taylor winning at the minimum of 6 rounds to 5 with one even.
Abraham crushes Taylor: Could Jermain be replaced by Green or Miranda?
By Jason Kim: After losing by a 12th round knockout to former International Boxing Federation middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s) on Saturday night with only six seconds to go in the bout, there are questions whether Jermain Taylor (28-4-1, 17 KO’s) will continue forward in the Super Six tournament. Taylor, 31, was viciously knocked out by a hard right hand from Abraham in the waning seconds of the bout, causing Taylor to fall back first on the canvas with the back of his head bouncing off the canvas hard.
Abraham and Froch: The King and The Cobra come up trumps
By Craig Martin: So the first two fights of the Super Six have come and gone. What have we learned? ‘King’ Arthur Abraham has really and truly laid the marker as a genuine winner, even at this early stage. Jermain Taylor, well, the question will no doubt be asked; what has he got left? Carl Froch continues to show massive heart and grit but one wonders just how far that will get him. And Andre Dirrell has proved that he does indeed belong with the world’s elite in this weight division.