"Acting" a Smokescreen
It doesn't make any difference whether or not Dirrell was acting (and I'm certain he was NOT acting, was, in fact, really knocked out, but it's irrelevant)--HE WAS POWER-PUNCHED WHEN HE WAS VERY OBVIOUSLY BUTT-FLUSH TO THE FLOOR, BACK RESTING ON THE ROPES. That's a DQ, whether he was knocked out by the punch or not. It was a dirty, dirty move by a very "sauer" loser. Although Dirrell was hurt by what was really a KD (not a trip/slip as mis-called by Cole) by Abraham, all he had to do to win by that time was keep from taking an Abraham late-fight KO, which, even tired and somewhat hurt by the mis-called "trip," there's no doubt in my mind he could do. And it was a wash on mis-called KDs by Cole, each fighter had one mis-called KD; moreover, even had it not been a wash, and had they each been scored with one KD apiece, Dirrell would still have won the full 12-rounds had it continued, he was that far ahead. The Europeans fight like old-time white guys--hey, they ARE old-time white guys--and it doesn't work against slip-and-move specialists from the Americas, ALL of the Americas, North, Central, and South, and the Asians, ALL the Asians. Maybe the Europeans just need to leave the 19th Century behind and learn a few new moves, instead of whining (and, in Abraham's case, stopping!!!, pointing at his crotch, and whining--all the time).