Dirrell's Body shots were vicious. He landed some nasty punches to the body.

[savorduhflavor]

Dirrell fought a great fight. It's too bad Arthur had to ruin such a great fight. He still could have won by a fair knockout. Why did he have to ruin the fight by sucker punching a downed opponent?

I've lost a lot of respect for Arthur and I really liked him before this. Not only was he crying like a ***** to the ref all night about body punches, he showed no sportsmanship after the fight in saying that Dirrell, who out boxed the **** out of him almost all night, was not a good fighter but a good actor.

I know there was a couple low blows but most of the ones AA was complaining about were just clean body shots.

I agree 100%.

[Tamis!]

Agree @ thread

Those quick combos to the face-body (anyways AA pretty covered up that's why AD's had success to the mid section) were loaded with dynamite!

[Tamis!]

I even thought someone in the panel would go ala-Jim Lampley and say BANG BANG BANG too

[5burowz]

And that's the reason Abe was complaining to the ref so much: because they hurt. He was trying to get sympathy from the ref and perhaps even a point deducted so Andre would think twice about continuing to throw them. While I think that Laurence Cole did not do a great job in this fight, he did a number of things correctly.

[Fox McCloud]

I think that is getting over looked. Watching it sounded like shotguns were going off. He was drilling him to the body.

Dirrell's punches always sound very weird to me. I don't know how, but they have a smack/woosh sound to it whenever they touch something.

Yea and AA complains like a ***** every time he gets touched to the body.

Yeah, I'm so glad Dirrell jumped him the third time he did it. I was getting so damn tired of him complaining about it.

[Fox McCloud]

And that's the reason Abe was complaining to the ref so much: because they hurt. He was trying to get sympathy from the ref and perhaps even a point deducted so Andre would think twice about continuing to throw them. While I think that Laurence Cole did not do a great job in this fight, he did a number of things correctly.

I think that's the real intent of it. Not so much to get the point, but to get the other guy warned, so he will stop throwing to the body.

[Fox McCloud]

..he was expecting the referee to remove his mask and reveal a Sauerland referee: "Arthur, are you alright?"

The thought of a referee putting his arm around a fighter when he's bent over and asking "Arthur, are you alright?" like a father would brought a smile to my face.

[Doctor_Tenma]

Yea and AA complains like a ***** every time he gets touched to the body.

I swear, one thing that really annoyed me about him. Thats his way of getting rid of his opponent's body attack; sadly it worked against Taylor.

[SoldierWarrior]

AA got his ass kicked. Dirrells skills are so impressive he made Abraham look like a jeff lacy clone. He embarrassed a good fighter. Abraham lost his cool because he took an ass whooping!