Comments Thread For: Dirrell, Now a Free Agent, Rejects Facing Bute in Canada

[vir72l]

WTF is with these clowns in the sport of boxing? Fcuk no one wants to fight here or there, money is the issue, judges another .. fcuk learn from the UFC and fight on neutral venues ... you are being made millions to do 46mins of work now stfu and get on with it ... geez all this talk about fight dates, venues, money, etc is a bore, no wonder why ufc is killing boxing ... its just a shame boxing gets more money for a bunch of cry babies ..

[sd southpaw]

haha poor shaw soon as his fighters make a decent name, they shake him off the top. he's had really good fighters leave him, i know he's pissed

[#1Assassin]

very bad move imo. shaw is the man to work with if you are fighting on showtime, hes got mad leverage at that network and hes a good promoter in general. he also has chad dawson, the premier 175lber. dirrell will be moving up soon, fightign dawson would have been a great oppertunity.

whats worse than leaving shaw is leaving haymon though. haymon is the man, hes got mad connections. why would you throw that away? he makes big fights, gets good dates, increases any money made.. dumb move on dirrells part.

and who exactly is in charge of dirrell promotions? they have all these former fighters in the family but nobody who carries any power in the political aspect of the game as far as i know. this all seems very ill adviced.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Everybodys leaving Gary Shaw.

Especially when he wants them to take hard fights....

[daggum]

Especially when he wants them to take hard fights....

yep. "you want me to fight bute? hell nah i'm outta here. i'm going independent floyd mayweather style! now i can pick and choose which bums i can fight."

........prays for a baldomir type bum to win a belt so can can pop out of the woodwork and steal it and become "elite"

[belna]

He didn't say Montreal and Detroit is a bridge trip away. He said Canada and Detroit is a bridge trip away, which it is. The Canadians can also take the tunnel if they wish.

Don't defend a ****** quote. Bute's fanbase is in Montreal. End of.

[MJ223]

Looks like he didn't want the Bute fight.....

[BattlingNelson]

Like others in this thread, this is incredible dumb move. Dirrell has absolutely no leverage to be acting like this. He took a year off, basically faked an injury (not against Abraham IMO, but afterwards) for not being able to grab more money against Ward.

This guy thought he deserved more money against Ward for beating up Abraham, but when even Al Haymon can't secure you more money, you know you have no leverage.

Absolutely horrendous career move.

Spot on.

With this kind of attitude I cannot see Dirrels career going anywhere.

[Bombs]

Buarahahah!! What a dumbo. He is no household name lol he ****ed himself. But not surprised to see this coward pussy duck out of both. He sucks. **** team dirrell lol for real. I hate him.

[JAB5239]

What is it fighters wanting titles but not wanting to go into the champions backyard to take it? Pathetic.