Abraham handled himself poorly tonight

As one of AA's biggest fans, I've to compliment Dirrell on his stellar performance. He was the better man tonight. What were the decisive factors? * Dirrel's fast legs * His activity * His reach advantage * AA not changing his game plan when it was clear that he's gonna loose the fight on the cards The three things above gave AA serious problems and even without the disqualification (which was okay) I don't think that AA would've been able to KO Dirrell in the last two rounds (never say never, but it seems unlikely). also Abraham didn't do jack shit the first three rounds. The typical waiting-for-opponent-to-be-tired method of fighting wasn't going to work. I do think there was about a 30% chance he could have gotten a knockout, Dirrell looked pretty out of it when he went back to his corner at the end of the tenth and Abraham was in control of the eleventh as well. He just made a stupid mistake which he should have acknowledged after losing.

As one of AA's biggest fans, I've to compliment Dirrell on his stellar performance. He was the better man tonight. What were the decisive factors? * Dirrel's fast legs * His activity * His reach advantage * AA not changing his game plan when it was clear that he's gonna loose the fight on the cards The three things above gave AA serious problems and even without the disqualification (which was okay) I don't think that AA would've been able to KO Dirrell in the last two rounds (never say never, but it seems unlikely).

"No, he's a good actor! No" True that Arthur. Would you really bet on Dirrell in if they rematch?

I agree with the OP. I was surprised that even when AA was shown the replay of him clearly hitting Dirrell on the floor he wasn't classy enough to admit his fault. He had been losing every round and took a cheap shot at an opponent who slipped onto the deck then wasn't man enough to apologize or acknowledge Dirrell as a good fighter. Bad karma Mr Abraham you just when down a few notches on the Danny Williams Wall of Coolness.

^^^exactly the ref did a terrible job. Or how bout the doctor taking his sweet time and putting pressure on the cut for AA. Why don't u guys understand AA hit dirrel when he was down for a good second he should get DQ regardless if dirrel Is "faking" which I don't think he was. AA is suppose to be this devestating puncher and he hits a guy on one knee and he doesn't see it coming surrrrrrrre he's faking. TAke it like a man AA fans and AA u lost stop acting like sore losers. Your boy was getting his ears boxed off.

It was a knockdown indeed, but it was more AA being off balance than anything. AA had a knockdown of Dirrell aswell, that's if your blind biased ref would get off Dirrell's nuts and judge a fair fight, not allowing ballshots all night long. Dirrell was slowing down in the later rounds, being the power puncher AA is, I saw it ending the same way as the Taylor fight. If you want to call it a KD for AA in the 10th, then why don't you mention Dirrell's KD of AA that also went over the ref's head? That's still 2 KD's for Dirrell. Talk about being bias...or blind.

abraham was coming back at the end. he landed bombs that hurt dirrell. the KO was gonna come before the final bell. believe it.

First time watching an AA fight presume? He did as he always do. Let the other fighter gas out in the first rounds, KO the other guy the **** out in the later rounds. it's not my first Abraham fight, i've prob seen him fight at least 5-6 times, and he's never made a comeback like that. He's never been knocked down before, he's never been cut like that(excluding the first Miranda fight) and he's never been that far down in the fight and come back to win.

How would you act when you're not given a fair shake at all in a match? Ref was so obviously biased, Abraham never had a chance to get any momentum because of the Ref. I would be frustrated too. Does't excuse punching Dirrell while he's down, but I can sympathize with Abraham, atleast. When Showtime is pitching the fight as 'The All-American hometown hero versus the visiting villainous European', you just know the fight is rigged. And this weekend was a free Showtime viewing weekend. It was obvious they were playing up Dirrell to try and hook as many American subscribers as possible. yeah man, lawrence cole is seriously a crooked ref, he has to be on the take, all the fights he's fvcked up in, so many, even got suspended for giving fighters advice in the ring, jmm if i remember right. jmm was a true champ and wanted to continue but cole was trying to coax him to stop fighting because it was in his right from being fouled, real crooked if you ask me, makes you wonder if he has money on the rounds or doing for someone who does. dude needs to be investigated. watch any of his fights and its miss, miss, miss, fvck up after fvck up. and i thought abraham handled himself fine, i think him calling his opponent a actor was being a competitive guy that was frustrated. besides telling shaw that his fighter is a fake, well, i like anything that fvcks with shaw, dude is a crook too.

Get off the BS. Abraham is protected by the ref as well. Watch his other bouts and you'll understand. He's protected in Germany almost like Ottke was. He,of all people, shouldn't complain. He's a hell of a fighter and I take nothing away from him but what goes around, comes around so to speak.

Ref was really biased. I can see why Abraham had such sour grapes. I think it was in the 9th round that Abraham was hammering Dirrell in the corner and the ref broke them up for some BS reasons. Also Abe was quite pissed off that the ref wasn't seeing the numerous lowblows in the fight. Still a fan of Abe, but I hope Dirrell is okay. He should stop slipping all over the canvas so much. You slip that many times against a desperate Abe and you're just asking for that kind of thing to happen.

How would you act when you're not given a fair shake at all in a match? Ref was so obviously biased, Abraham never had a chance to get any momentum because of the Ref. I would be frustrated too. Does't excuse punching Dirrell while he's down, but I can sympathize with Abraham, atleast. When Showtime is pitching the fight as 'The All-American hometown hero versus the visiting villainous European', you just know the fight is rigged. And this weekend was a free Showtime viewing weekend. It was obvious they were playing up Dirrell to try and hook as many American subscribers as possible. Why would they poll viewers about Abraham's chances of being in the lead at the end of stage two of the tournament then? I can't recall one thing any of the three announcers said that indicated bias towards Dirrell. And really the ref wasn't so bad there have been much worse.

How would you act when you're not given a fair shake at all in a match? Ref was so obviously biased, Abraham never had a chance to get any momentum because of the Ref. I would be frustrated too. Does't excuse punching Dirrell while he's down, but I can sympathize with Abraham, atleast. When Showtime is pitching the fight as 'The All-American hometown hero versus the visiting villainous European', you just know the fight is rigged. And this weekend was a free Showtime viewing weekend. It was obvious they were playing up Dirrell to try and hook as many American subscribers as possible.