ESPN: Super Six Classic dealt another blow

[Guest]

This was a good idea but it's had problems.

I know Froch has fought with injuries in the past, so it must be serious.

[BattlingNelson]

This stinks. For real. I loved this whole tourney deal.

Me too.

I also loved the round robin format and it's a damn shame we miss out on stage 3.

Beacuse of the experience with this supersix it might be that its impossible to have so many fighters in a single tournament due to the injuryrisk. I think the disputes regarding venues and officials could be solved by having everything on paper from the get-go. The injuryaspect I have no answer for however.

[DC Fight Fan]

I have said from the beginning.....

Too Long
Should be single elimination
Should be done in 1 year tops

[BattlingNelson]

This was a good idea but it's had problems.

I know Froch has fought with injuries in the past, so it must be serious.

It's a balony injury. This is boxingpolitics.

Why stage Froch-AA if it's unclear whether Dirrell-Ward gets off at all? There's no WBC title on the line so one of them would basically eliminate themselves from a titleshot if they just fought.

[V.WEBB]

I have said from the beginning.....

Too Long
Should be single elimination
Should be done in 1 year tops

Yea, I would have liked to see it done this way.

Me too.

I also loved the round robin format and it's a damn shame we miss out on stage 3.

Beacuse of the experience with this supersix it might be that its impossible to have so many fighters in a single tournament due to the injuryrisk. I think the disputes regarding venues and officials could be solved by having everything on paper from the get-go. The injuryaspect I have no answer for however.

I think single elimination would have been fine. That way, you win you in, you lose you go. What that also does is, cut the time of the tourney down. They should have set the location and venues for each round from the get go and alot of these "disputes" could have been already taken care of.

[Horus]

Yea, I would have liked to see it done this way.



I think single elimination would have been fine. That way, you win you in, you lose you go. What that also does is, cut the time of the tourney down. They should have set the location and venues for each round from the get go and alot of these "disputes" could have been already taken care of.

you coming on the show tomorrow?

[BattlingNelson]

Yea, I would have liked to see it done this way.



I think single elimination would have been fine. That way, you win you in, you lose you go. What that also does is, cut the time of the tourney down. They should have set the location and venues for each round from the get go and alot of these "disputes" could have been already taken care of.

Single elimination would have meant that neither Ward nor Dirrell would have entered I'm sure. If they had lost the fight they would have been out of titlecontention for a long time. I found the 3 fight guarantee the cornerstone of the project.

[P4P Opinion]

It's a balony injury. This is boxingpolitics.

Why stage Froch-AA if it's unclear whether Dirrell-Ward gets off at all? There's no WBC title on the line so one of them would basically eliminate themselves from a titleshot if they just fought.

Bull****. Froch is not the type to duck out of a fight. Look at his recent opposition - Pascal, Taylor, Dirrell and Kessler. You can criticise his technique or how much he runs his mouth off, but he doesn't duck anyone. You have nothing to back up what you claim anyway, it'd be like me claiming Kessler is faking his eye injury and I know you'd get upset about that!

[SimonTemplar]

Yes, we mustn't assume at this stage that the whole thing is off. Froch is talking about delaying the fight four weeks or so, but fighting Abraham then at the same venue in Monaco. I can't see him ducking the fight, quite apart from the tournament, both Froch and Abraham see this fight as an opportunity to come back from defeat by stopping a big name fighter and teeing up a title fight. So I think that Froch-Abraham will go ahead with a delay. If, separately, Ward-Dirrell does not happen, then the WBA and WBC will address who gets to fight for their titles, who holds the titles, etc. I would expect that a matchup of some sort will be mandated for the vacant WBC strap, and if Ward-Dirrell don't want to fight for the belt then at least one of them won't be involved in the fight, opening up the way, potentially, for one or both of Froch and Abraham to fight for it. Similarly, if Ward and Dirrell don't fight, Ward will have to find another challenger for his WBA belt. As Kessler is some way off a return, again it seems likely that the winner of Froch-Abraham would be a good money fight for him. So either way, there is no reason for Froch or Abraham to duck one another. They have lots of reasons to make their fight happen, no reason to avoid one another. So I don't think for a minute that Froch is ducking the fight. Sometimes, fighters say that they are injured because they are injured. Life can be simple, sometimes. We have all just been trained by a rough year for boxing to look for the conspiracy theory, to look for the fighter trying to duck. I don't believe that this is one of those.

[minasyan]

**** you froch

maybe if boxers didn't train that long before a fight and had more then two fights a year these injuries will be a less of an occurrence