The show starts like a movie. Allan Green looks astonished. The picture gets blurry. And Andre Dirrell starts talking about how he thought he got dropped. Brilliant opening.

Days before the fight, Arthur Abraham says he’s been living in a hotel for five months. They show Abraham and Dirrell at the Red Wings game being announced in front of the crowd. They’re fighting at the same venue two days later.

At the weigh-in, Dirrell looks decidedly taller and even a bit bigger. I noticed that at the fight and the difference surprised me.

The way they put the fight together was a mix of live footage and movie-like slow motion footage. It looked like a Rocky montage and made the fight way more interesting than it really was. Kudos to Showtime. It’s really good stuff.

Gary Shaw is a character and a half. And they’re showing him unrestrained.

The chaos at the end of the fight is cinematic. They show Dirrell crying because he’s out on his feet. He didn’t know that he won the fight, even as he went into his dressing room. He was calling for a rematch even though he won.

Abraham’s corner man told him that he gave away six or seven rounds. Abraham wondered what the point difference was when he got disqualified.

Andre went to the hospital and he admitted that he’s still confused and didn’t like winning like that. It seems that he thinks he was losing on points when he won or something.

There’s a money rematch waiting for these guys if they get matched up again. The promoters just made the same point that I did about how they could rematch.

The rest of the episode is about Mikkel Kessler and Carl Froch. Kessler says that his confidence was tested and he was fighting Andre Ward’s fight and not his.

Froch made a great point. He says that it’s hard to become champion, but harder to keep it. You have to train harder. But you’re getting older and it becomes even harder.

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