Who won? Froch? Or Dirrell?

[killersheep]

Dirrell won the race, Froch won the fight. I'm a fan of niether and voted for draw. Dirrell is the better boxer, but at least Froch showed up with an expectation of giving a few and taking a few.
If this happened in an alley with no ref, Froch would have probably killed Dirrell. If this happened in an empty football stadium with 100 refs, Froch would have never gotten within 50 feet of Dirrell.

With the inclusion of boxing rules and a ref, its hard to give the fight to Froch. With the basic assumption that a boxing match is a fight, You can't give it to Dirrell. With boxing closer to a fight than a footrace, I have to say Froch showed up to fight and Dirrell showed up looking for protection for the ref in order to preserve his style.

Ok so Froch wins if we don't have rules? But since there are rules, Dirrell wins and since you don't like them it's a draw? Did I understand you correctly, I'm a little confused by what you are saying to be honest.

[J_Undisputed]

Dirrell won the race, Froch won the fight. I'm a fan of niether and voted for draw. Dirrell is the better boxer, but at least Froch showed up with an expectation of giving a few and taking a few.
If this happened in an alley with no ref, Froch would have probably killed Dirrell. If this happened in an empty football stadium with 100 refs, Froch would have never gotten within 50 feet of Dirrell.

With the inclusion of boxing rules and a ref, its hard to give the fight to Froch. With the basic assumption that a boxing match is a fight, You can't give it to Dirrell. With boxing closer to a fight than a footrace, I have to say Froch showed up to fight and Dirrell showed up looking for protection for the ref in order to preserve his style.

Ok so Froch wins if we don't have rules? But since there are rules, Dirrell wins and since you don't like them it's a draw? Did I understand you correctly, I'm a little confused by what you are saying to be honest.

I'm saying, I called it a draw because niether really did enough to win this contest in my opinion. Rules or no rules.. you have to actually engage someone to call it a fight. While Froch came closest to trying do that in my eyes and while I didn't frown on the rabbit punches because of clinging of Dirrell... from the aspect of a boxing match, you cant really score/include those as landed punches. Dirrells David Reid running imitation and then Ruiz's hugging imitation doesn't really kills any points i was willing to give him. Had I been the ref, I'd have deducted so many points, it probably would have been a race to see who would get DQ'd first. So I call it a draw (the non combatitive tendcies of Dirrell canceling out the ineptitude of Froch. Not sure which is the bigger crime, having skills and choosing to run instead or not having the skills to complete and losing the inspiration to try because you cant run that fast).

Pretty sure that did nothing to clarify it ..lol .. but I just as soon wish this fight never happened as I can't give it to either in good consicence.

[mexirican]

I think after aching the fight for a second time it was even more convincing that Dirrell got majorly screwed

[The Fightfan]

I am not a Froch fan by any stretch but what he said at the end of the fight to me rung true. I seen Dirrell running and complaining when he was the one holding on for dear life on the inside.Or if Dirrell even got wind Froch was getting close he ran,held,and even fell at one point. I could have had it either way but at the end of the fight I gave it to Froch by 1 point.

[Mar]

Bunch of great points in this thread...but all we have to do is look it up on boxrec, that will tell you who won for all that really matters. For those thinking it was a rip, not to worry he got two points for the win and it's not like he'll be getting any if very many more. Remember froch did win but look at who it was againt, a fighter with a handfull of fights, and almost all of them against guys no one knows. Good to get a victory but i think it will be short lived. I doubt direll since the olympics has even been out of the country to visit somewhere else let alone fight there. He handled the pressure and fighting past i think like the 10th against a champ for the first time.