Comments Thread For: Arthur Abraham's Team Files Protest on Andre Dirrell Loss

[mrjoeblive]

The referee, Laurence Cole was pretty awful in that fight. Seems the occasion got to him. Was nearly as bad as Joe Cortez in the Hatton/Mayweather fight.

i assume you say cortez was bad because he didnt allow hatton to hold and hit like he did in the kostya fight. cortez was right to not let hatton hold and wrestle. when its a fighter people hate they feel its ok to fracture the rules. but vs fighters they love they want the rules followed to a tee. i dont care who the fighter is if he breaks the rules he should be held accountable for it. AA should have been remorseful insted of having such a cavalier attitude. people can understand mistakes happen. but he is looking more and more like margarito by acting like he did nothing wrong.

[Boss Don]

Yeah, a guy who can fight an entire fight with a shattered jaw, have the blood he swallowed pumped out of his stomach afterwards, get a new jaw put in with steel pins in it and come back and fight again isn't "man" enough, huh?

Operations on the jaw are among the most dangerous of all. I have a friend who got cold****ed and got his jaw shattered and he was in tremendous pain for months and had to have an 8-hour operation eventually to reset the jaw. It took him a long time to get over it.

So to have that happen and come back and box again takes tremendous courage.
I can see AA being a little upset over losing his "0" at least in part due to Cole's incompetence. Why is this guy allowed to referee major boxing matches?

Call Arthur a bad sport if you want, but he doesn't need to "man up."

Man I don't care about all that you tryna say I can call him a sore loser but can't tell him to man up wtf sore losers need to man up

[mrjoeblive]

Cole's missed calls and improper positioning in the ring at least contributed to the atmosphere that led to Arthur's supposed illegal "KO" of Dirrell (though I do believe Gumby knew he was about to get sparked and did a most Oscar-worthy acting job). Arthur just didn't hit him hard enough to cause the kind of convulsions Gumby went into after a couple of seconds of thinking "what should I do now?"

you must be joking!!!! he hit dre hard enough to turn his head to the complete opposite side. a punch he didnt see and wasnt expecting from a man known for his hard hitting style. and it just dont take a lot to do harm to the body ive observed people get conccussions from getting hit on the football field let alone from a pro boxer.

[STEELHEAD]

don't hold it against abe for the blow.
things like that happen in the heat of the moment.

but abe surrounded by yes men ands use to the king treatment
in his native land is making a mental error here jabbering out his ass.

what would of happenened if fight was haulted for 5 minutes then resumed?

yep i seen dirrell staying on the ropes and abe coming on.
abe robbed us of !

[mrjoeblive]

Well, as he'd never lost before, maybe he'll get better at it, though I hope he doesn't experience it too often, myself.

But I should add: two fights for Andre "Gumby" Dirrell and two fights that end in all kinds of name-calling and controversy. I've got the feeling that this is going to continue with Dirrell. He's annoying, as Froch pointed out, the kind of guy that just irritates you with his antics of falling down all the time, running, whining, and so on. I'll be surprised if we DON'T have a Dirrell fight that ends in some kind of problem.

By the way, I noticed the other black fighters on 360 were all rooting for Gumby over Arthur (before the "low blow"). And I noticed that Froch and Kessler both said Dirrell was "acting" later. This tournament is really doing lots for Euro-American race relations!

i just dont have a problem with people rooting for their country man. nothing wrong with that. but still right is right and wrong is wrong regardless of who you want to win. and dre wasnt falling all over the place. he fell twice in AA's water soaked corner that the ref stopped the fight once to have them clean up the excess h2o. team AA should protest the fact that cole didnt make them clean up the water a second time and that led to dre falling and AA hitting him while he was down.

[cuba montana]

I think the fights between Froch V Dirrel, Abrahams V Dirrel & Ward V Kessler all demonstrate the flaws in this contest in not having neutral venue's & a better standard of refs & judges in this Super Six contest.

Personally I think Dirrel will be exposed by the better fighter Ward eventually in this comp, whilst I think Ward headbutted his way to victory on cuts against Kessler, although he didn't really need to rely on that because he was the superior fighter, nevertheless the fact remain he stopped Kessler on cuts brought about by butts.

Dirrel should have been braver against Froch but held too much and made it easier for the judges to give it to the defending champ, whilst Dirrel's play acting should have been handled much in the same manner as the boring RJJ V BHop fight last week, whereby the ref allowed time for BHop to recover because there's no doubt these fighters were both acting up, which seems to be the only way American fighters think they can win nowadays.

The protest probably won't get them anywhere but there's no doubt Abrahams had the momentum going into the final round.

In the future, and for the sack of a competition like this, better refs and judge's would be needed plus most importantly nuetral venue's.

[mrjoeblive]

don't hold it against abe for the blow.
things like that happen in the heat of the moment.

but abe surrounded by yes men ands use to the king treatment
in his native land is making a mental error here jabbering out his ass.

what would of happenened if fight was haulted for 5 minutes then resumed?

yep i seen dirrell staying on the ropes and abe coming on.
abe robbed us of !

5 minutes??? the man was confused and had to be helped out of the ring. he thought he had lost the fight and had to be told he won. the illegal blow from AA should not be rewarded. he was rightfully dq'd

[TOBYLEE1]

None of those points would had affected the DQ. AA is complaining more than Dirrell now. AA was doing an acting job himself everytime he got hit on the body. Take the loss like a man and move on, there is still plenty of fight in AA

[mrjoeblive]

Yeah, a guy who can fight an entire fight with a shattered jaw, have the blood he swallowed pumped out of his stomach afterwards, get a new jaw put in with steel pins in it and come back and fight again isn't "man" enough, huh?

Operations on the jaw are among the most dangerous of all. I have a friend who got cold****ed and got his jaw shattered and he was in tremendous pain for months and had to have an 8-hour operation eventually to reset the jaw. It took him a long time to get over it.

So to have that happen and come back and box again takes tremendous courage.
I can see AA being a little upset over losing his "0" at least in part due to Cole's incompetence. Why is this guy allowed to referee major boxing matches?

Call Arthur a bad sport if you want, but he doesn't need to "man up."

operations on the jaw are NOT the most dangerous of all.... you are tooo funny so the heart, the brain, the spine, different organ transplants, cabg, grafts, blood vesels, out of all these and PLENTY more, you pick the jaw as the most dangerous of all. you must be AA's number one fan to say some crazy stuff like that. you are funny

[STEELHEAD]

don't hold it against abe for the blow.
things like that happen in the heat of the moment.

but abe surrounded by yes men ands use to the king treatment
in his native land is making a mental error here jabbering out his ass.

what would of happenened if fight was haulted for 5 minutes then resumed?

yep i seen dirrell staying on the ropes and abe coming on.
abe robbed us of !

5 minutes??? the man was confused and had to be helped out of the ring. he thought he had lost the fight and had to be told he won. the illegal blow from AA should not be rewarded. he was rightfully dq'd

i agree.
but some of abe and his troupe think ref should not have stopped the fight.
and to let it resume. and i believe 5 minutes is the limit for recouping.