Dirrell won 8 rounds out of 10. He dominated him.

[BoxingFanFirst]

no doubt he was winning and controlling the fight, with that said, it was starting to look like he was slowing down and not fighting confidently like the rounds before the 10th.

either way, i wouldn't mind seeing a rematch, but you and i know, all of you know, that will never happen, unless within the confines of the tournament.

Watch rds 10 and 11 and repeat that. You will see how dumb you look.

[-Hyperion-]

dirrell won round 3 too....people need to stoper overestimting punches just because they came from a puncher....punches didnt have any effect on dirrell in round 3 and he dominated 2:45 min-secs of the round

he was also winning round 11

[jimmykaba]

his biggest win was via DQ

[Uturn]

It's a shame Dirrell has to **** around though because he has something there going for him but danm he really needs to stop this dirty fighting tactics... He has some excellent skills though.

[Ravishing]

I mean, yea he definitely was controlling the pace for a good majority of the fight, but that's why there's 12 rounds to a fight. Even prior to the knockdown (excuse...the slip), you can see Dirrell starting to backup, and not because he was countering AA really, but more of AA pushing the envelope (which he usually does by this point) and he definitely hit Dirrell with some shots he felt. I have a feeling AA was starting to smell blood, unfortunately made a costly mistake in the end.

After watching the fight again, I think Dirrell was actually a bit hurt from the punch while he was down basing it off his interview after the fight making it seem like he actually lost, he did look incoherent. But nonetheless, it's a win for Dirrell, but something I'm not going to tip my hat fully to yet being AA IMO was on his way to turning to fight around, even going into the 11th.

Who does he fight next BTW?

[lfc19titles]

On paper yes if you have not seen the fight but remember in the 10th Abraham scored a good knockdown and Dirrell did have jelly legs for a few seconds. He was dazed and it looked like Abraham may close the show. In the 11th Abraham was landing some clean shots and Dirrell looked gassed out

at this point the fight was still 50-50 but then Abraham gave dirrell a chance to get out and I believe Dirrell took it with his acting.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

I mean, yea he definitely was controlling the pace for a good majority of the fight, but that's why there's 12 rounds to a fight. Even prior to the knockdown (excuse...the slip), you can see Dirrell starting to backup, and not because he was countering AA really, but more of AA pushing the envelope (which he usually does by this point) and he definitely hit Dirrell with some shots he felt. I have a feeling AA was starting to smell blood, unfortunately made a costly mistake in the end.

After watching the fight again, I think Dirrell was actually a bit hurt from the punch while he was down basing it off his interview after the fight making it seem like he actually lost, he did look incoherent. But nonetheless, it's a win for Dirrell, but something I'm not going to tip my hat fully to yet being AA IMO was on his way to turning to fight around, even going into the 11th.

Who does he fight next BTW?

I dont think AA was on his way to turning the fight around he was losing the 11th round. He got schooled and deserves credit. Its not Dirrells fault AA cheated.

Dirrell fights Ward next.

[ThePunchingBag]

Winning 10 rounds doesn't mean **** if you get knocked out in the 12th like I expected Dirrell to.

Abraham was gassing him out waiting for him to slow down in the late rounds and we saw evidence of that. Too bad AA made a critical mistake and fcked it all up.

[gingeralbino]

i've watched it about 6 times on primetime, and 2 rounds sounds about right. I never bothered to score it any of the times even the first, because I, and 99% of fans (even AA fans) knew that Dirrel would be outpointing AA in this one.

The only debate about what the outcome of this fight would be (pre-fight) is whether Dirrel could last 12 rounds and get a wide decision or whether AA could KO him late. No-one was picking AA on points.

It was looking probable that Dirrel was gonna go 12, but AA was coming on strong and Dirrel was weakening. A ko wasnt out of the question for AA, but i'd favour Dirrel lasting the last 4 mins. Anyway, thats irrelevent, AA ****ed up and hit Dirrel when he was on the ground and get himself DQd.

So i dont get all the talk about Dirrel "schooling" AA, everyone knew he was gonna be outpointing him. I'm just a bit pissed of AA robbed usof a great end to the fight, u could tell the last round would have been interesting!

[Ravishing]

I dont think AA was on his way to turning the fight around he was losing the 11th round. He got schooled and deserves credit. Its not Dirrells fault AA cheated.

Dirrell fights Ward next.

Seeing how Dirrell was fighting in the early rounds till the later rounds, I definitely saw Dirrell being a lot more reserved which gave AA more of an opportunity to strike. After that knockdown AA became the aggressor and he landed punches even after that knockdown until the slip and the punch happened. I'm not making any excuses for AA because he should've balked on hitting him while he was down, but nobody will ever really know how that fight was going to end up regardless of the scorecards, there was still a good amount of time left (as there was with the Taylor fight which many had him beating AA as well).

If Ward's healthy though, I got him beating Dirrell (not even mentioning Allan Green).