So Dirrell is back in March...

[skel1983]

According to Twitter he is back in March, fuck me I wanna meet this Dr Shaw Hi!!!!

The guy works miracles, so he has gone from a possible career ending brain injury to returning less than six months after the diagnosis.

Hahaha the guy is a joke!!!

[MMASUX]

Wasnt he just saying in that interview last month that he needed 90 days symptom free before they would consider releasing him?? That sure was a fast 90 days. March is the target date for Bute's first fight on showtime, maybe we see Bute-Dirrell.

[skel1983]

Wasnt he just saying in that interview last month that he needed 90 days symptom free before they would consider releasing him?? That sure was a fast 90 days. March is the target date for Bute's first fight on showtime, maybe we see Bute-Dirrell.

Hey come on now what else would you expect when Dr Shaw Hi is the man in charge!!

[TheMacMagician]

3 months symptom free were their exact words on the FC 360 Episode 8 so no way does that mean he should be ready now. Somethin absolutely stinks with this guy. If they already penned in a date for March then Dirrell has fast turned in to a complete pussy in my mind. I think i'm close to officially deciding that Dirrell was going to get totally waxed by Abraham inside the last couple of rounds and he completely wet out and acted the shit out of it.

[0james0]

You are right on the money there.

Dirrell is bottom of the barrel for me, held off the bottom only by Margarito.

3 months symptom free were their exact words on the FC 360 Episode 8 so no way does that mean he should be ready now. Somethin absolutely stinks with this guy. If they already penned in a date for March then Dirrell has fast turned in to a complete pussy in my mind. I think i'm close to officially deciding that Dirrell was going to get totally waxed by Abraham inside the last couple of rounds and he completely wet out and acted the shit out of it.

[El Kabong]

Some dude on youtube posted his version explaining that Dirrell did a sell job



And they explain it all well and good, but I would say not only look at the voluntary movements of Dirrell but those movements paired with the delayed reaction...and so you can see the delayed reaction at real speed, here's the last round of the fight

[Taeth]

3 months symptom free were their exact words on the FC 360 Episode 8 so no way does that mean he should be ready now. Somethin absolutely stinks with this guy. If they already penned in a date for March then Dirrell has fast turned in to a complete pussy in my mind. I think i'm close to officially deciding that Dirrell was going to get totally waxed by Abraham inside the last couple of rounds and he completely wet out and acted the shit out of it.

Watch the eleventh round, he was winning that round, and he looked fine there is no proof that he was gassing or that Abraham was even close to stopping him.

[El Kabong]

If you see the replay of when AA hit him as he was on the ground there was a SERIOUS delayed reaction to the punch.

Dirrell is a punk, sounds to me like he didn't want any part of Ward to be honest.

[Rantcatrat]

If you see the replay of when AA hit him as he was on the ground there was a SERIOUS delayed reaction to the punch.

Dirrell is a punk, sounds to me like he didn't want any part of Ward to be honest.

In my opinion, it sounded like his team thought it would be the wrong career move to fight Ward after coming off of a loss against Froch and a somewhat suspect win over Abraham. A loss against Ward would mean three bad outings. They probably decided they would rather sit out for a year than risk that. Coming back in March is a little ridiculous.

[El Kabong]

I just think style-wise the matchup vs Ward is all wrong for Dirrell

[Stale_hotdog]

That whole wanting to having his lawyer present during the 360 interview did it for me. That was just embarrassing...

[luvfightgame]

He might think he's coming back. As his promoter said in 360, licensing is going to be a very big and expensive ordeal now.

They will require lots of tests to show he's clear of neurological problems.

[ono]

He might think he's coming back. As his promoter said in 360, licensing is going to be a very big and expensive ordeal now.

They will require lots of tests to show he's clear of neurological problems.

His post fight brain scan didn't even show up the slightest of concussions....unsurprisingly so i think he's probably clear.

Granted i don't have same neurological contacts as Taeth so take that with a pinch of salt.

[Fenster]

If we knew what money the super six competitors were on we'd probably get the reason why Dirrell-Ward didn't happen at this stage.

Dirrell is probably on peanuts compared to the others and he certainly hasn't enhanced his worth during this tournament.

[Taeth]

He might think he's coming back. As his promoter said in 360, licensing is going to be a very big and expensive ordeal now.

They will require lots of tests to show he's clear of neurological problems.

His post fight brain scan didn't even show up the slightest of concussions....unsurprisingly so i think he's probably clear.

Granted i don't have same neurological contacts as Taeth so take that with a pinch of salt.

We happen to have a neurologist at my gym so that's so unbelievable? Do other gyms not have physicians and lawyers that go to them? Where has there been anything that shows there was no sign of a concussion on any test they ran on him? You probably don't know they can't actually do a scan to conclusively prove whether somebody had a concussion or not? They use the scans to look for bleeds and such, but you wouldn't know that being such a dimwit.

In fact besides the symptoms it's very hard for them to diagnose a lot of cases where people get concussions. Despite all the funding that is going into it from football now. There is still so much we actually don't know when it comes to concussions, headaches, and brain trauma in general that all of your conclusions are pre-mature and poorly founded regardless of what happens from hear on out.

I'm not even saying that he didn't necessarily duck Andre Ward, but Abraham hit him with a brutally cheap shot because he knew he wasn't going to catch Dirrell with a big enough shot legitimately to win the fight. The one knockdown he scored, Dirrell was clearly hurt, but he dripped on Arthur's foot, and he took several other big shots after that and stayed up, and in the 11th he looked absolutely fine, look at that video on the first page, he was outboxing Arthur the same way he did for the entire fight that round.

It's funny how people watch things like when Hopkins fought Calzaghe with the low blow and say for sure he was faking, but I guarantee most of you have never been clipped in the top of the cup and have had it dig into the interior pelvlic region. It honestly hurts almost as bad as a low blow, and it doesn't even require that much force. But there are so many ignorant people that have never even participated in the sport for any amount of time, and they act like they are wisdom bearers' of the sport.