Comments Thread For: Arthur Abraham's Trainer Questions Andre Dirrell's Injury

[English puncher]

I really hope AA lays dirrell out! I hate dirrell, he should run track and challenge bolt in a sprint.

[trufightfanatic]

Why would anyone assume that Dirrell would fake an injury . There is nothing in his history to date to suggest that he would duck anyone. He knew when he got into this tournament who he would have to fight and its not like AA just started knocking mofos out with Taylor. besides Dirrell isn't backing out of the fight,just simply pushing it back a few weeks. Come on people get real!

[Sparked_1985]

I don't think Abraham is going to get near to Dirrell.

Pretty much a perfect style match-up for Andre.

Abraham is the shortest guy, not much of a jabber, low work-rate, with limited foot and handspeed. That said he could probably put Dirrell all over the place with a jab.

Dirrell SHOULD win. The one thing going against him is physical strength - Dirrell doesn't have any.

[Lucky Luciano]

I don't think the back injury was fake. Dirrell's trainer was interviewed and said that technically, Dirrell is ready to go and they set the fight back because there was no way he was going to allow his fighter to go in there with a fighter like AA and he's not 100%. He pulled a back muscle...and 3 weeks is not long.

[Mr. Philadel]

they needed him to add more cardio to the training so that he could run for 12 rds

props!!

[Tobi.G]

http://www.b---------24.com/2010/02/...ght-for-andre/

Abraham-Dirrell: Will this be an easy fight for Andre?
February 17, 2010

By Scott Gilfoid: In looking over the stage 2 Super Six fight between Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) and former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s), I see it as one-sided a fight as you can imagine. Abraham, 29, is about as slow as Dirrell’s last opponent WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch in terms of hand speed, but doesn’t have the height or reach that the 6’1” Froch had going for him against Dirrell. Not that it helped Froch any, because he rarely landed any clean punches in the fight other than when he was in close to Dirrell.

Abraham, 5’10”, appears out of place amongst the much bigger Super Six contestants because of his limited height. You would think that Abraham’s speed would even the score and put him in the same class as the other fighters in the tourney, but Abraham has little hand speed going for him. Indeed, his punches, which I would describe as wide and ugly, are as slow as any I’ve seen.

What makes Abraham’s punches even slower is that he makes the mistake of throwing wide shots every time he throws a shot. He also has a really nasty habit of hooking his elbows as he throws a shot like he’s hitting a bag with both his punch and the elbow. If you look at Abraham’s fight with Jermain Taylor on October 17th last year, Abraham hurt Taylor by first hitting him with the right hand and then following through with his elbow that slammed into the side of Taylor’s face, staggering him.

It was a clever punch, although not exactly the fairest considering Abraham hurt Taylor with an elbow. It’s debatable whether the damage was done form the right hand or the elbow, but I’m inclined to see it as coming from the elbow because Taylor staggered immediately after getting hooked with it. Dirrell, 27, isn’t going to be standing directly in front of the slow-footed Abraham.

He knows that for Abraham to have any chance in this fight, he has to have the much faster handed Dirrell right there for him to land his slower shots. Dirrell, on the other hand, will be tattooing Abraham with punches from a distance, putting together incredible combinations that will be hard to see with the naked eye. Abraham won’t know how to combat Dirrell’s blazing hand speed.

This isn’t something you can exactly train for. If you have no hand speed and your feet are just as slow, it’s just not going to happen for Abraham. That’s like taking a simple fighter and then putting him in with a world class fighter and then expecting them to be competitive after having him train for eight week against a few hapless sparring partners.

It doesn’t matter who they dig up for Abraham to spar with in training camp, it won’t give Abraham fast twitch nerve fiber for his arms, shoulders and legs. The dude moves and punches like he has a lot of dead nerve fibers if you ask me. He never was very quick to begin with, but in the few years, Abraham has started to look even slower.

That’s bad news for Abraham, because speed is what he’s going to need most of all when he enters the ring against the talented Dirrell. I see this fight as Custer’s land stand for Abraham. Dirrell is going to encircle Abe, pick him off with arrow shots to the head, and then as he wears out in the later rounds, Dirrell will come in and lance the weary and shaken Abraham to the head with a powerful left hand to finish him off.

Sorry, but the autor who wrote this is full of ****!! He doesnt know anything about boxing and especially about Abraham. You cant compare Abraham to Froch, first of all Abraham is faster, other than that he has perfect timing and timing can beat speed. The autor said also nothing about Abrahams verry good defense and his ring inteligence.

[STEELHEAD]

Ulli Wegner, the trainer of undefeated super middleweight Arthur Abraham, is questioning the validity of Andre Dirrell's back injury. They were scheduled to fight in the second stage of Showtime's Super Six tournament on March 6. Dirrell withdrew with a back injury. The fight was postponed to March 27. [Click Here To Read More]

is abraham having any weight issues? having to stay down in weight a few weeks longer.

[Tobi.G]

is abraham having any weight issues? having to stay down in weight a few weeks longer.

No i doubt he has weight issues. He just stepped up a division and never lets himself get fat.

[puromexicano]

Plain and simple... He couldn't make weight on time

[Tobi.G]

Direll had weigh problems against Froch already.