Dirells meaningless punches are what helped him win the fight. He could have followed the same path of all the others abraham has beaten but he thought it through tried something different and it worked. People cried about clottey and this dude does damn near the same thing. He waits for guys to throw tire themselves out then counters out his shell, just as boring but yes it has worked. Direll's so called meaningless punches were marking up abrahams face with abrahams own gloves so i think he was trowing just a little bit. Reguardless of how it was done abraham used his stategy direll used his. It worked for one guy, the other got beat. Abraham may not of been hurt but he sure was loosing rounds and that's what is important. Others have gone in tried to impress the fans and ended up sleep like taylor. Direll did very little running in the begining (to save energy) took some pretty good shots and overall did a very good job. And at the very least used his fists in maybe a boring, potshotting, un fan frendly way, but he didn't use them to hit a guy like a bitch when he was down when abraham had plenty of opportunity to hit him like a man face to face when he wasn't kneeling on the ground. Congrats to direll is all that really needs to be said.