Comments Thread For: DeGale-Dirrell Title Fight Secured For May 23 In Boston

[Tom Cruise]

Casual boxing fans in Boston will not be familiar with Dirrell or Degale. Boston is a great sports town for hockey, football, basketball, college sports and especially baseball but there isn't a big boxing scene here. Occationally we'll have a semi-high profile boxing event here e.g. Hatton-Collazo but those are few and far between.

Fair enough. I was thinking maybe the novelty of going to see a world level fight live might attract fans. I know it would where I live. Hopefully they manage to get some atmosphere in there otherwise they might a well have had it in UK (bearing in mind its an afternoon show to accomadate our time zone)

[Pigeons]

Good to see Haymon putting cards across the US. Vegas, CA, Brooklyn, TX, Chicago, Boston. I hope this continues. Boxing is too often banished to the West Coast.

[gauze]

crap, i can't go to this. i work during the day on saturdays.

[-DSG-]

Can't wait will be a good one!

[slimshandy69]

Honestly thinks Degale knocks him out within 6 rounds.

hope your right

[Fetta]

Spread the sport around. Love it in Boston. Will sell well.

Think Dirrell will take it but this is a tough one to call

[Fetta]

Good to see Haymon putting cards across the US. Vegas, CA, Brooklyn, TX, Chicago, Boston. I hope this continues. Boxing is too often banished to the West Coast.

Just wrote the same thing.

Except for West Coat thing. Im a West Coast boy so im biased

Spread it around

[ShoulderRoll]

This is a very intriguing fight and I'm really looking forward to it.

Dirrell at his best has the potential to be the top 168 pounder in the world outside of Andre Ward. As for Degale -- I never rated him highly until he whipped Brandon Gonzalez. That was an extremely impressive performance and earned my respect, he should provide a great test plus be a good measuring stick of where Dirrell is truly at right now.

[heavyhands702]

Andre dirrel is one of your favourite fighters?

Is that before or after he faked an injury vs Abraham then used that as an excuse to duck ward

WOW really? It figures a statement like this had to come from a *******. smh I see that you definitely didn't watch the fight cause if you did you couldn't say that he faked the injury because he was clearly winning that fight, before he slipped near the corner and went to one knee and was hit with a flagrant punch while he was down and defenseless. No one fakes a concussion from blunt force trauma.