Was Dirrell acting? I think he was...

[The Hammer]

Hate to say it, but you're biased towards European fighters.

Maybe, but many people here are baised AGAINST European fighters.

[Grand Champ]

It is abundantly clear that he was acting.

One exposure after another T.

[Sweet Jesus]

Maybe, but many people here are baised AGAINST European fighters.

Cry about it. People here are biased toward the countries/continents they live in. What a shock! I never would have guessed that between the Mayweather/Pacquiao wars and the recent Super Six wars.

[TintaBoricua]

Maybe, but many people here are baised AGAINST European fighters.

Klitschko Bros- not bad fighters (at all). Reason why they get hated on: they're SO dominant that they make the already weak division seem weaker. They're a handful, though.

Abraham- tremendous puncher and deserves respect. Las night's affair was awkward, though.

Kessler- haven't seen many of his fights despite the big name he is.

Froch- tremendous chin and determination. I appluad him for his own over Taylor, but he's not going to last long if he relies on his opponents fading.

Khan- haven't seen him in action, heard about his speed and power. Might end up picking him over Malignaggi.

Hatton- loved his relentless style and bodypunching, but I felt bad when he took that last loss.

Calzaghe- I admit to hating the guy. But after Hopkins, he began to grow on me. It's a shame he isn't fighting anymore. I can't believe people were picking Jones, Jr. over Calzaghe. That was dumb.

[sigrab]

These images confirm what I posted on why I feel he was acting. None of these clips even show him starting to shake yet. Like I said I watched the fight with my wife who is a doctor and several of her colleagues who are also physicians. Look at how Dirrell gets hit, stays up for a few seconds and then lies on his back with his gloves up near his eyes. Then he starts to convulse about 8-10 seconds later (not shown on these clips). That's total bull****. If you get hit hard enough to convulse it occurs right away. You can get hit and then have a delayed reaction and fall down but you don't get hit, have a delayed reaction and then start to convulse. If you've been hit hard enough to twitch the convulsions start RIGHT AWAY. Dirrell gets hit, doesn't go down right away, then goes down, then (and we don't see it in these images because it took so long) starts to twitch. Again, this is a bull**** acting job on his part. Additionally he puts his glove up near his left temple area after Abraham punch landed on his lower left jaw. This makes no sense. He gets hit in his left jaw but acts like the pain is near his left temple. Your images do show this.

Dirrell was clearly winning the fight and outboxing Abraham when Arthur blatantly fouled him. He had put on a great boxing performance but his style of fighting really tires him out in the later rounds. Abraham was starting to get to him a bit, he was exhausted, slipped and when he got hit with the illegal blow he knew he could win on DQ if he stayed down and decided to act as if the blow really damaged him to insure he got the DQ victory. I think it's pretty easy to see (myself and the doctors I watched the fight with immediately picked up on it) because his acting was terrible. Getting so hysterical, pretending like he didn't know what had happened, all an acting job after the fact. I can't stress enough what the doctors I watched the fight with told me. Again, they say that if you absorb a blow to the head that really ****s you up then you will convulse immediately. It's not possible for someone to have such a long delayed reaction to head trauma like Dirrell displayed. Dirrell took the blow, thought about it, put his gloves up to his temples (although he got hit in the lower left jaw), went down to his back, thought about it some more, and then decided to convulse because he was exhausted and knew he'd get the DQ victory.

I have a similar story.

We have a big family gathering today here at my home where most of my wife's kin are in attendance. There are at least a half a dozen physicians here who aren't boxing fans and have no idea who Dirrell or AA was.

I couldn't make up my mind last night and was so curious about what happened that I had to gather them and show them a clip of that KD.

They said that the punch may have hurt him but his reaction was odd and is not consistent with someone who would suffer convulsions a few seconds later.

The fact that he thought he lost afterwards wasn't even an issue since they believe that could easily have been an acting job too.

They went on to say that if they have to put their jobs on the line and make a judgement call on this, every single one of them would choose the acting option.

I was doubtful last night but now I believe he was acting.

[ANDROID_DOES]

First off that punch clipped him it wasn't flush. Second when yout get knocked out so bad you start shakig that means there's some damage done. Too much damage that wouldn't have time to look up at your opponent then fall and still have enough control to put your hands on your face and THEN start shaking. You also would be up a few minutes later pissed off. So done knocked out bad enough to have convulsions wouldn't have the slightest ***en idea of what's going on. He had enough enough strength to get up and walk on his own, give interview and say aa hit him while he was done. How in the *** can u have convulsion then a few minutes later giving an interview and putting on an I'm pissed off act and claim aa hit him while he was down. There's no way one would even know where be is at much less the detailed and emotions he showed. Anyone thinking this was real just shows they are badly uneducated with something like this.

[ANDROID_DOES]

And what a coincidence he's taken to the hospital and his scan was negative and actually not even serious enough to monitor him over night. Some of you guys are gullible as ***!

[KESSLER]

I think he was acting. He didn't look that hurt at all, it was like Abraham landed the punch and Dirrell was like 'wtf?, oh, wait.. this is my chance to get out of here! - ohhhhhhh *shakes his body*.... help meee "

[Hotsoup]

People want to see a non-black non-mexican fighter win so bad that they make excuses for him when he does dirty ****. I'm white and even I can see that that is the reason so many people are supporting A.A. Disgrace!!!

[sigrab]

People want to see a non-black non-mexican fighter win so bad that they make excuses for him when he does dirty ****. I'm white and even I can see that that is the reason so many people are supporting A.A. Disgrace!!!

This thread is not about who's supporting AA.

AA got schooled by Dirrell no doubt. AA was losing that fight big.

The TS was asking if you thought Dirrell was acting or not.

That's irregardless of whether you're a fan of either fighter.