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Glen Johnson, Chad Dawson and just about any other top 10 light heavy (including 400 year old Tarver) would beat any of the Super Six I think pretty easily. I think they are just too big, and even the best 168 lbs 'boxer' with experience, which would have to be Kessler, would be too small to dent those bigger fighters. I might be wrong about Tarver depending on how 'old' he is but the others I think would eat them alive....Comment
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This thread is a classic example of people concentrating too much on a fight that didn't produce any excitement or skill show casing and not focusing on the next fight that either may be exciting or may be both exciting and another robbery. Johnson whipped Dawson's ass in the first fight and I hope he's got enough left in the tank to pick up where he left off.
Here's the thing about the Dirrell-Froch fight. I thought Dirrell won the fight, but he didn't deserve to win at the same time. Johnson was both crowd pleasing and robbed at the same time. He didn't go to knees, complain to the ref, or constantly clinch and run. He fought to win, and the judges still took it from him. He was blocking Chad's shoe shine punches all night and landed continuous bombs off of Dawson's dome. Chad's wife had this terrified look on her face like her hubby had just came from chemotherapy. Both Dawson and his wife know that he didn't win that fight. And the only reason why this rematch is happening is because of the fans and HBO demanding it. More so than Dawson's courage.
Both fights were bad decisions, but Johnson brought the heat, and Dirrell did everything to turn the temperature down. I don't want to use double standards, but it is what it is to me.Comment
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Splitsville
When Carl Froch finally met Andre Dirrell in a 20 by 20 ring in Nottingham, England, there was little to inspire the imagination. Prior to the bout, there were a few scenarios that could have played out as the rounds wore on. But the one that seemed the most likely was precisely what we witnessed.
Andre used his ****y attitude and decent speed to try and sneak a victory past the global judges who were simply not impressed enough to award him Froch’s Middleweight title belt. The limited Froch appeared more passionate than the man who held him at most opportunities and struck with precision intermittently. A Panamanian referee snatching a point from Andre for holding did not help the overview.
At the end of the frustrating and ugly 48 minutes, a split debate went the way of Froch who was the aggressor most of the evening. If it went the other way, it would have meant that we were in Vegas. American soil may have given Dirrell the benefit of his doubts. A draw would have seemed more appropriate for all involved.
That being said, in the age of Mayweather, I’m more compelled by the man who pursues with diligence than another tricky dancer with stardom in his eyes. I’m not salivating to watch Andre conduct his type of Tango again, anytime soon. He just does not perform his act that well at this stage of his career.
Froch is a limited fighter with a boxer’s heart but few skills to back up his desire. He is slow, wild and yet, in 26 contests, undefeated. His resume is nothing to write home about with the exception of the hard luck combatant, Jermain Taylor.
Taylor was once the Middleweight champion of the world. Having been born in Little Rock, Arkansas earned him a visit to Bill Clinton’s White House and a fan base who presumed that his reign would last longer then a meeting with Kelly Pavlik. But Pavlik exposed Taylor twice and then Carl Froch finished the job earlier this year. With Carl behind on points, all Taylor had to do was stand erect for 14 more seconds into the twelfth stanza. In an eerie replication of history, Arthur Abraham slowly dismantled Jermain Saturday, until disposing of him with a wicked right hand with, yes, 14 seconds left in the twelfth episode. Some guys are simply hard luck athletes whose skills cease functioning at a given point in a gloved encounter. For Taylor, the eight ball must have very special meaning, for he cannot seem to endure past that mystical number when it is translated to three minute rounds.
As for King Arthur, he avoided any controversy over who earned victory in their contest.
The only split which was evident appeared on the front of Arthur’s trunks just over the King’s cup, suffered after a scathing low blow administered by Mr. Taylor.Comment
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I dont see how u think johnson won that fight.yes he hit him with bombs but it was like in 3 rounds out of 12.chad was more active,and on top of that he fought glenn type of fight.if a fighter throws 20 jabs and lands 8 vs somebody throwing 5 bombs and landing 1, how u gonna give the bomb man the round? this is boxing not mma.chad is a point type of fighterComment
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