Outclassed?
That's a lame way of putting it.
Abraham is what he is. Everybody who understood the style/attributes matchup knew that it favored Dirrell hugely. If not for Dirrell's questionable mentality under pressure and Abraham's equalizer (his power out of either hand), you wouldn't give AA a chance.
How Abraham looked in the fight is how he was expected to look. To win the fight, he was expected to come on strong late to do it - that's what was happening, he was pressuring and coming on in the latter 90 seconds of each of those championship rounds.
Dirrell didn't win conclusively. And there's no guarantee he was making it out of that fight. If the DQ hadn't happened and Dirrell had gotten stopped, then he didn't outclass ****. Dirrell was wanting out of the fight by the time the DQ blow came, that's how much Abraham was being outclassed.
I don't think Dirrell beating Arthur in a rematch is a lock at all.
Ward is the only guy in the tournament I'd confidently say beats Abraham.
That's a lame way of putting it.
Abraham is what he is. Everybody who understood the style/attributes matchup knew that it favored Dirrell hugely. If not for Dirrell's questionable mentality under pressure and Abraham's equalizer (his power out of either hand), you wouldn't give AA a chance.
How Abraham looked in the fight is how he was expected to look. To win the fight, he was expected to come on strong late to do it - that's what was happening, he was pressuring and coming on in the latter 90 seconds of each of those championship rounds.
Dirrell didn't win conclusively. And there's no guarantee he was making it out of that fight. If the DQ hadn't happened and Dirrell had gotten stopped, then he didn't outclass ****. Dirrell was wanting out of the fight by the time the DQ blow came, that's how much Abraham was being outclassed.
I don't think Dirrell beating Arthur in a rematch is a lock at all.
Ward is the only guy in the tournament I'd confidently say beats Abraham.
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