Comments Thread For: “Fighting Words” – How Dirrell Fell and Conspiracies Flew

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Dirrell has no fans now he has no career never did dirrell make any money because there is little interest in him because he is boring and dull with no fans. Sissies ward and dirrell thought they could manipulate Showtime and boxing but found out they both are powerless and with American not interested in either of these two ****** boys career over. Bye.

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All Showtime and hopefully HBO need to do is ban both ward and dirrell from all future fights. Then career over period. Boxing cannot have these two nobodies and I mean nobodies dictate anything. Neither has a fan base so just forget about them and move on, They are tap dancers and sissies anyway.

[BattlingNelson]

All Showtime and hopefully HBO need to do is ban both ward and dirrell from all future fights. Then career over period. Boxing cannot have these two nobodies and I mean nobodies dictate anything. Neither has a fan base so just forget about them and move on, They are tap dancers and sissies anyway.

Both these guys are proven top 5 of the division and you want them to go away because they are nobodies?

I suggest you find another sport because you're obviously not a boxingfan.

[Lorily]

I posted this yesterday on another article, but I think it bares repeating because some people just don't seem to get it. Dirrell could have chosen from a whole host of injury excuses that would have had a hell of a lot less serious implications in the future.

"As much as I believe that neither Andre wanted to fight each other, there were many other "injury" excuses they could have used that would have been a lot easier than this one. Boxing commisions take brain injuries very seriously. To come out with a neurological problem is the last excuse a fighter would want to use in this day and age if it were untrue. He will have a hard time being approved for a fight now, or for a long time, even if he wants to. I just don't think they would have used an excuse this serious if they had any intentions of continuing on any time soon with Dirrells fighting career."

[BattlingNelson]

I posted this yesterday on another article, but I think it bares repeating because some people just don't seem to get it. Dirrell could have chosen from a whole host of injury excuses that would have had a hell of a lot less serious implications in the future.

"As much as I believe that neither Andre wanted to fight each other, there were many other "injury" excuses they could have used that would have been a lot easier than this one. Boxing commisions take brain injuries very seriously. To come out with a neurological problem is the last excuse a fighter would want to use in this day and age if it were untrue. He will have a hard time being approved for a fight now, or for a long time, even if he wants to. I just don't think they would have used an excuse this serious if they had any intentions of continuing on any time soon with Dirrells fighting career."

I'm not questioning you, BUT can you please name 5 other injuries that you can only diagnose by the words of the patient.

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dirrell should just retire. neurological issues don't go away and he should retire for his own sake as well as his family.

[English puncher]

I posted this yesterday on another article, but I think it bares repeating because some people just don't seem to get it. Dirrell could have chosen from a whole host of injury excuses that would have had a hell of a lot less serious implications in the future.

"As much as I believe that neither Andre wanted to fight each other, there were many other "injury" excuses they could have used that would have been a lot easier than this one. Boxing commisions take brain injuries very seriously. To come out with a neurological problem is the last excuse a fighter would want to use in this day and age if it were untrue. He will have a hard time being approved for a fight now, or for a long time, even if he wants to. I just don't think they would have used an excuse this serious if they had any intentions of continuing on any time soon with Dirrells fighting career."

I agree....the re-occuring back injury would have been the most sensible/believable....im no fan of dirrell, i think he has all the tools in the toolbag, but he lacks the heart...that said i hope not, but i think this is probably serious!

[Lorily]

I'm not questioning you, BUT can you please name 5 other injuries that you can only diagnose by the words of the patient.

No problem Bat. I don't claim to be an expert but for example, just about anything can be called a sprain. You can't neccissarily prove or disprove a sprain because it's basically an injury resulting in pain that relys on the patients word. Even a concussion is defined as "any violent blow". There are different severities of concussions but just about every doctor uses it as a diagnoses to any blow to the body (usually the head). You can get hit in the head by a baseball and they'll call it a concussion.
Just about every "injury" not resulting in an obvious break is diagnosed by the word of the patient. Because there is no exray to determine if there is pain or not, it is almost always based on what the patient tells the doctor. And from personal experience, I can tell you that not all MRIs/exrays show everything. The only true way to verify many conditions is through surgery.
Look how many times fights have been delayed by athletes claiming a back injury. An exray/MRI cannot disprove the fact that they claim disabiling pain. The same could be said with just about any part of their body. But a patient can inform a doctor that they are feeling better and be taken on their word for those kind of injuries with no breaks or obvious impairments. The same can not be said about Neurological problems. As hard as it can be to prove or disprove, the harder it will be for them to convince a boxing commision that he is "okay" and able to fight. He is going to have to go through a battery of tests to prove it now, it won't be that easy as boxing takes any kind of brain trauma seriously.

[BattlingNelson]

No problem Bat. I don't claim to be an expert but for example, just about anything can be called a sprain. You can't neccissarily prove or disprove a sprain because it's basically an injury resulting in pain that relys on the patients word. Even a concussion is defined as "any violent blow". There are different severities of concussions but just about every doctor uses it as a diagnoses to any blow to the body (usually the head). You can get hit in the head by a baseball and they'll call it a concussion.
Just about every "injury" not resulting in an obvious break is diagnosed by the word of the patient. Because there is no exray to determine if there is pain or not, it is almost always based on what the patient tells the doctor. And from personal experience, I can tell you that not all MRIs/exrays show everything. The only true way to verify many conditions is through surgery.
Look how many times fights have been delayed by athletes claiming a back injury. An exray/MRI cannot disprove the fact that they claim disabiling pain. The same could be said with just about any part of their body. But a patient can inform a doctor that they are feeling better and be taken on their word for those kind of injuries with no breaks or obvious impairments. The same can not be said about Neurological problems. As hard as it can be to prove or disprove, the harder it will be for them to convince a boxing commision that he is "okay" and able to fight. He is going to have to go through a battery of tests to prove it now, it won't be that easy as boxing takes any kind of brain trauma seriously.

Nice effort.

Still a concussion will cause the same concerns as other neurological issues.

As far as sprains go they usually heal within a relative short timeframe and can IMO not warrant for a complete withdrawal as was the case with Dirrells neurological disorder.

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dirrell just made a joke out of showtime and boxing. A sissy fighter with no fans or following tries to run boxing and determines who and when he fights. dirrell is boxing's joke and a disgrace to himself and boxing. ban the bum forever.