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.
This episode takes us behind the scenes of the controversial Abraham vs. Dirrell fight. We see the first signs of dissension between the promoters. Then we take a look ahead as Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler prepare for their big fight showdown in Denmark on April 24th.
Another must see broadcast.
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The show starts with Jermain Taylor working out, talking about his comeback and how he’s upset about having to pull out of the Super Six after losing to Arthur Abraham in vicious fashion.
Arthur Abraham lives with his mother. He says he wants a big career in America.
Andre Dirrell goes home to show where his house used to stand and he says it hurts because he can’t show his kids where he lived as a child.
They show Andre’s grandmother, brother, and fiance and they talk about him. His grandmother can’t watch him fight. His brother says it’s like him fighting in there. And his fiance cries every time he fights. He says he’s been away for probably half his own kids’ lives because of all the training, but they know that when he’s home, he’s home.
They show Taylor with his family and with his kids, which is just an awesome scene. He says boxing is inside of him.
He says he didn’t feel as strong as usual. He says he was crushed when he lost because it was in the last round again. He says he misses boxing a lot. He’s a fighter. It’s who he is.
The promoters are together trying to figure out who is going to replace Taylor. Lou DiBella says it should be an American fighter. Gary Shaw is upset when Abraham’s promoter asked for a 10X10 ring.
Allan Green is chosen as the replacement. He says he shouldn’t have been left out of the tournament anyway. He says it was politics and he’s the hardest puncher in the tournament. Green says when he wins, he’s going to moon the camera so everyone can kiss his ass. Who is he, Larry Holmes?
Abraham says that Taylor has everything and that boxing is business and it was a tough knockout. He wants to have a big party in LA after he wins.
Dirrell and his crew are watching the Taylor/Abraham fight and Dirrell says that Abraham takes breathers and that’s when you have to get him.
The fourth installment of Showtime’s fantastic Fight Camp 360 series. This episode previews Abraham vs. Dirrell, and introduces Jermain Taylor’s replacement Allan Green. Mandatory viewing as always.
This episode focuses on all three fights of Stage 1 of the Super Six World Boxing Classic.
The show starts with Lou DiBella talking about Jermain Taylor’s scary concussion in his fight against Arthur Abraham as a teaser to open Episode 3. It leads into the morning of the fight with DiBella telling JT’s wife that he hasn’t seen him as skinny in a long time.
Gary Shaw tells Andre Dirrell to let Carl Froch come to him and he doesn’t have to worry about the knockout.
Taylor/Abraham
Arthur Abraham is portrayed like a rock star and if you remember the entrance for his fight with JT, that’s exactly who he was.
They showed the fight from the perspective of Taylor’s wife and mother and it was heartbreaking. His mother walked out when Abraham buckled him earlier in the fight, but his wife made his mother come back and watch. And then in the last round when Taylor went down hard, both his wife and mother agreed that they have their whole lives left and there’s nothing left to prove. I think that was the sentiment that we all had for Jermain. He’s had a really good career.
This episode of Fight Camp 360 focuses on the Andre Ward vs. Mikkel Kessler fight that is set to happen on Saturday, November 21 in Oakland, California.
The show opens with Gary Shaw upset because Carl Froch’s group is late for a press conference with his fighter, Andre Dirrell. Shaw tells Dirrell that on Thursday, he wins the press conference, Friday he wins the weigh-in, and Saturday he wins the fight. I’m not sure if he won the first two, but unfortunately for Dirrell, he lost the third one. I’m not sure he won the press conference either. He was acting like a fool. Though, he did put on a really good performance that could’ve gone either way.
They show how they put together Arthur Abraham’s entrance from his fight with Jermaine Taylor. I think I saw similar theatrics with Michael Jackson’s concert that never happened.
Mikkel Kessler’s shown with his family. His sister said that she never thought he’d stick with boxing because he was such a wussy. Kessler says that the hard training originally attracted him to boxing.
The next scene was with Carl Froch’s girlfriend. This, I approve.
Arthur Abraham didn’t want to talk about which shot he was going to beat Taylor with, while Taylor says his goal was to win the tournament and be back on top. Continue Reading »
This episode focuses on all three fights of Stage 1 of the Super Six World Boxing Classic.
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