For Boxing's sake i'm glad Dirrell didn't win.

[Bhopreign]

Depends on your perspective. From Dirrell's perspective his gameplan was to counter all night long, keep distance and frustrate Froch. He did all that, he just goes about it in a stressful way alot of times, Floyd, Hopkins and more natural fighters can do what Dirrell did without looking distressed and nobody would really complain. Floyd/Corrales comes to mind. Cotto/Marg doesnt come to mind as Cotto looked uncomfortable throughout that fight.

[squealpiggy]

The irony is that if Dirrell had fought properly he could have knocked Froch out. Easily. In those last few rounds Dirrell was landing at will and not being hit back at all. Every round leading up to that he was running, avoiding, holding and dropping to his knees.

[squealpiggy]

As for Williams, how does he learn to fight that way? Is his sparring partner a cloud of angry wasps?

[ntate88]

dirrell won the fight but didnt deserve the decision and thats why he didnt get it. if froch was the challenger and direll came into the fight champion then yes direll wins but u cant win a belt like that by potshottin and running away. Especially when you are a no namer whos fought a bunch of no namers. someone in his position needed to make a statement and he didnt

[Sam D. Menace]

Boxing would never be like that across the board because whether you like it or not is took skill for Dirrell to fight the fight he fought, not all fighters are capable of fighting that way, so your point is ******.

Not all fighters fight with their face because they want to, they fight that way because they dont know how to fight any different and win.

*agrees with this post*

your all bein ****** again see, this is boxing, these guys actually have talent and skill, and why would someone risk getting their face punches in when they dont have to? go watch mma i dont care for you

[NorvernRob]

*agrees with this post*

your all bein ****** again see, this is boxing, these guys actually have talent and skill, and why would someone risk getting their face punches in when they dont have to? go watch mma i dont care for you

You obviously didn't read my post.

As I said, defensive skills are part of boxing - including running and potshotting. Dirrell showed more than enough skill to win the fight, indeed I and many other English fans had him winning it.

What Dirrell did that wasn't good was dropping on his knees to avoid being hit, grabbing hold of Froch whenever he got anywhere near, turning his back and constantly complaining to the ref.

Those things made it a terrible messy fight and that's why he didn't get the decision. And thank god he didn't because he stank the place out because of it. It's a shame because he showed real speed and talent when he did actually fight.

Maybe next time he'll just use his skills instead of all that **** he pulled last night.

[Crazylegs77]

Ok, before I get slagged let me say this - I had Dirrell winning the fight by a couple of rounds. Also of course Froch isn't the best boxer in the world.

However......

That fight totally stank the place out. Running and potshotting are part and parcel of a defensive boxer, so that's all good.

However dropping to your knees to avoid your opponent, holding EVERY time he gets near you (please don't compare that **** to the Hatton-Tzsyu fight - Hatton was the aggressor in that fight, plus it's the ref's job to stop it if he sees fit) and constantly complaining doesn't do you any favours.

Did Dirrell really expect or deserve to win a World title like that? The sad thing is he showed he had the speed and movement to beat Froch, he was just too negative.

And don't say 'it's called boxing and he boxed' - if all boxing matches were like that we'd all be watching MMA. These guys are paid a lot of money to entertain, that's why we shell out for PPV's and subscription channels. Nobody pays to see that ****.

It was a close fight, a messy fight and if the decison doesn't go your way you can't complain.

The only person that robbed Dirrell last night was himself.

Agree with you but I didnt score it for Dirrell, but I felt it should have been a draw.

[NorvernRob]

Agree with you but I didnt score it for Dirrell, but I felt it should have been a draw.

A lot of the rounds were so messy they could have been scored either way, so how anyone can call it a robbery I have no idea.

It's pot luck how the judges score a fight like that so you can't complain if you don't get the decision.

[D-MiZe]

The irony is that if Dirrell had fought properly he could have knocked Froch out. Easily.

Then why didn't he?

Stop with all this bull**** theory.

[Sam D. Menace]

You obviously didn't read my post.

As I said, defensive skills are part of boxing - including running and potshotting. Dirrell showed more than enough skill to win the fight, indeed I and many other English fans had him winning it.

What Dirrell did that wasn't good was dropping on his knees to avoid being hit, grabbing hold of Froch whenever he got anywhere near, turning his back and constantly complaining to the ref.

Those things made it a terrible messy fight and that's why he didn't get the decision. And thank god he didn't because he stank the place out because of it. It's a shame because he showed real speed and talent when he did actually fight.

Maybe next time he'll just use his skills instead of all that **** he pulled last night.

you dont score a fight to the other guy because the dominant fighter is falling on one knee or complaining to the ref...if he's winning he's winning