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Ok, so Froch was terrible. But Dirrell, this supposed 'great technical' landed about 10 punches a round for most of the fight. For 2 minutes of every round, he ran away. He was literally running at speed.
Yes, he was on the wrong end of a bad decision tonight, but that doesn't translate into him being able to beat an elite boxer.
You guys are acting as if he is James Toney, fighting in the pocket and yet still avoiding 99% of his opponent's shots while landing 99% of his own. That's skill. That's masterful. This to me wasn't much more impressive than the Curtis Stevens fight.
Let's look at it this way: If Margarito had tried to outbox Paul Williams by mostly standing still and flicking out a jab, and Williams had responded by landing 4 punches around and then running away, until trapped at which point he would hold and look to the ref with a pained expression on his face, would that be masterful? Because that's what we're talking about here.
Dawson is far better than this guy. Ward is better than this guy. Watch Kessler-Andrade, where Kessler shows 1000x more composure than Dirrell against a more aggressive, physically stronger opponent, and lands 100s of hard, technically perfect punches while taking hardly anything back in return.
Please, do you really think that Chad Dawson would only land a couple of punches on Froch? Even Tarver-Woods was 10x the display of skill that we saw tonight.
You can't have it both ways. If Froch was terrible (and he was) then landing such a low number of punches on him doesn't take masterful skills.
Dirrell is talented, but he hasn't shown great skills and fought like a scared child. As soon as someone decent (Abraham, Kessler) starts to open up against him, he will go into meltdown and be knocked out. He doesn't have the mentality to win this thing, he hasn't displayed the skill to win this thing, and you guys are ridiculously overrating him just because he landed a low number of punches on a guy you consider to be ****.
So my question is...how exactly do you have him winning this, and what exactly were these great skills? Do you really think he's on the same level as the guys mentioned above?
Yes, he was on the wrong end of a bad decision tonight, but that doesn't translate into him being able to beat an elite boxer.
You guys are acting as if he is James Toney, fighting in the pocket and yet still avoiding 99% of his opponent's shots while landing 99% of his own. That's skill. That's masterful. This to me wasn't much more impressive than the Curtis Stevens fight.
Let's look at it this way: If Margarito had tried to outbox Paul Williams by mostly standing still and flicking out a jab, and Williams had responded by landing 4 punches around and then running away, until trapped at which point he would hold and look to the ref with a pained expression on his face, would that be masterful? Because that's what we're talking about here.
Dawson is far better than this guy. Ward is better than this guy. Watch Kessler-Andrade, where Kessler shows 1000x more composure than Dirrell against a more aggressive, physically stronger opponent, and lands 100s of hard, technically perfect punches while taking hardly anything back in return.
Please, do you really think that Chad Dawson would only land a couple of punches on Froch? Even Tarver-Woods was 10x the display of skill that we saw tonight.
You can't have it both ways. If Froch was terrible (and he was) then landing such a low number of punches on him doesn't take masterful skills.
Dirrell is talented, but he hasn't shown great skills and fought like a scared child. As soon as someone decent (Abraham, Kessler) starts to open up against him, he will go into meltdown and be knocked out. He doesn't have the mentality to win this thing, he hasn't displayed the skill to win this thing, and you guys are ridiculously overrating him just because he landed a low number of punches on a guy you consider to be ****.
So my question is...how exactly do you have him winning this, and what exactly were these great skills? Do you really think he's on the same level as the guys mentioned above?
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