Dirrell pulls out

http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/dirrell-out-of-super-six-62458

Andre Ward will have a new opponent on November 27 after Andre Dirrell pulled out with an alleged undisclosed injury. Ward and Dirrell (former Olympic teammates) were originally scheduled to meet September 25, but no agreement could be reached between the respective camps and the bout was rescheduled for November 27. Ken Hershman, Executive Vice President and General Manager of SHOWTIME Sports, said today that Ward’s fight will go on as scheduled against an opponent to be named.


Fuck Dirrell anyway, clearly neither but especially Dirrell wanted to go through with it...the super six is officially dead, bit of a cautionary tale this one

 

Hopefully Showtime never shows another of his fights. They should also hire an independent doctor to confirm this "injury". If he has to pull out seven weeks before the fight it has to be quite severe. He´s a bitch afterall, good for Abraham that he hit him.

 

I think it's safe to say that he has no real serious injury. The Super Six turned out to be a showcase of why boxing sucks. Fighters that don't want to fight the best, and who find any excuses to not. Unless Dirrell medical issue is proven by an independant doctor ( and by independant, I don't mean one hired by Dirrell ), I hope HBO and Showtime boycott him.

 

At this point, Ward comes out the best fighter of the Super Six bunch?

 

Why?

Because he beat Kessler and then conspired with Dirrell to sabotage the tournament.

 

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Could be. They are friends, aren't they? The important thing here is that Dirrell not profit from his repeated pull-outs and be awarded more coverage against an easier opponent on Showtime or HBO.

As far as I'm concerned, he didn't beat Abraham. And he lost to Froch.

 

Fuck Dirrell

 

I knew this was going to happen. It always seemed to me that Ward and Dirrell didn't want to fight eachother. Now it's proven.

Hand the fucking victory to Ward now, Dirrell was the only guy that would have given him any trouble anyway.

The winner of Glen Johnson and Allen Green is now guaranteed into the Semi's.

 

So I guess you would prefer AA, who was humiliated by Direll? Please.

 

Does it really fucking matter who "wins" it at this point. The whole process has been corrupted beyond repair. Might as well just cancel the whole thing.

Boxing really fucking sucks lately, and I have very little if any patience for it anymore.

 

Urgh. Boxing is like a kid who makes it very hard to love them.

 

Too bad his dad didn't pull out.

 

So, are they just being clever?

I guess we'll see what Shawtime is going to do with this news?

http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&opt=printable&id=31598

From Boxingscene's Lem Satterfield:

 

This is an opportunity to get Kessler back in the tournament. Let Dirrell 'heal' and make him fight Ward. Kessler gets the winner of Johnson/Green or they scrap that fight and have Green fight Kessler when he's ready.

All it does is leaves AA and Froch having a pretty big gap before their next fights which may be welcome for them or it may give the winner a chance to fight a mandatory.

It also may be time to get Bute involved or at least get him to agree to fight the winner of the tourney to keep interest high.

 

this tourney turned into shit when it was actually getting interesting.

 

Or, it might be time for everyone involved to admit that today's fighters and managers are too spoiled and too soft for an old-time concept like a tournament involving back to back to back fights against top competition.

Then again, we'll probably see the bantam-weights embrace the challenge and view it as a once in a life-time opportunity rather than a hard-ship to have to consistently face good comp (unless you're Ward and are lucky enough to get Allan Green in front of you).

I think they should've made Super Six single elimination. Would've been over sooner, and wouldn't subject any fighters to double losses, when clearly fighters and/or mgmt teams have no appetite for them.

 

If this is somehow actually true, would it finally be safe to say that Dirrell WASN'T faking it when his eyes rolled back in his head and he started convulsing on the canvas after Abraham cheap-shotted him?

 

Super 6 is dead. Personally, I blame the Klitschkos, but that's just me.

 

To suggest Dirrell was faking is downright mean.

 

For fucks sake.....the bullshit story is tailored to the incident, rather than the incident tailoring the story.:Chainsaw::Chainsaw:

They took the incident and made it fit their story, rather than there actually being any link between the two.

Shaw took the record of fighters being hurt in this tournament and neatly wedded it to Dirrells SUPPOSED injury in the Abraham fight to come up with this NONSENSE. That way everything looks congruous, neat, and on point.

"Oh yeah, I heard about fighters getting hurt in that tourney".....:shit:

The kid is a fucking bitch and he has the perfect promoter in Shaw to see that his bitchiness is promoted ad nauseum.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=5659177

I take back my previous "Fuck Dirrell" post, sounds like it is serious. The timing and all the other negotiations for the Ward just made me suspicious.

 

I don't know.....the Taylor and Kessler injuries were legit on one hand.

On the other hand, this tournament was designed to determine who the best 168lbr in the world was.

This design was fundamentally flawed in that it omitted Bute from the beginning.

It was flawed further by the replacements, neither of whom were the best 168lbrs in the world, not even close. In fact one of them is a 40-something guy who might not even be a Super-Middleweight, at all.

 

In other news, Floyd Mayweather has retired cos he barely knows who the fuck anyone is anymore, but "Will return as soon as I need some pocket-change"

:boring:

 

So would it be fair to say that, in addition to retiring Taylor, that Abraham has now retired Dirrell?

I guess this Armenian is just tired of black guys fucking Kim Kardashian up the shitter.

 

it wasn't flawed at the start, Bute didn't want to be in the Supers Six, he was offered to be in it but he declined. You just can't force a guy ot fight the best if he's happy milking his paper title.

As for Dirrell ''injury'' it seems as legit as I thought it was. They talk of symptoms that may or may not dissapear in as soon as 3 months ( and you can bet they will ), yet nothing that shows on the scan asaik.

Kessler injury was suspect too, some eye problem that may or may not require surgery, with the possiblility that it heals soon. Seems like bullshit too.

 

It's flawed, for whatever reason, for whoever's fault, if one of the arguably best 168lbrs is not in it.

Kessler had a serious cut which would have ruled him out for around 6 months anyways. And Kessler has announced also an intention and desire to return, which is in stark contrast to the Dirrell story about permanent damage and risk of death.

 

There's no point in even referring to this "thing" as the Super 6 anymore.

Showtime can call it that but really the tournament factor is dead.

 

But it turned out so well that they maybe need to think about doing a Bantamweight tournament.

:doh:

 

Thank you. It is well documented that Bute was invited and chose to stay away. Where this bullshit about Bute being 'omitted' comes from is beyond me.

MTF :dunno:

 

I've always thought Dirrell looked half retarded - like he wasn't all there or has a learning disability. Or a super low I.Q.