Andre Dirrell and Carl Froch nose-to-nose at their final press conference. (AP Photo/PA, Andrew Matthews)

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Carl Froch and Andre Dirrell have been talking trash consistently leading up to their October 17 fight in the Super Six World Boxing Classic, and Showtime sent out some final words from both men as they come to the final days before it's, well, showtime.

Froch:

"He knows he'll be in deep water on Saturday and he knows when I start connecting with the bombs he's going to be in serious trouble."

Deep water! With the sharks!

Dirrell:

"I'm glad he thinks it's a slight advantage for him being at home because he's going to need it. I'm coming with my A game and I guarantee you that I will keep that crowd quiet and he will get lost for words by the third or fourth round."

Dirrell also said on his Twitter that Froch's mother at one point yelled at him to stop disrespecting her son.

One thing I keep expecting is a bigger and bigger possibility is Dirrell stinking out the joint the way he did against Curtis Stevens. He won that fight, and nobody argued, but it was such a performance that it's a wonder he's gotten back into the good graces so quickly, and it's a credit to the aggressive way he's fought since then that people have largely forgotten, or at least forgiven, that fight. It was just horrible, but it kept him out of Stevens' wheelhouse and he was never for a second in any danger.

Since that fight, by the way, Stevens (21-2, 15 KO) has gone 4-0 with three stoppages, including a third-round TKO of previously-unbeaten Piotr Wilczewski in July. His only other loss came to Marcos Primera, which he avenged in an immediate rematch. I'm thinking Stevens, though he's a very short 5'7" at super middleweight, just might be better than most of us realized, and that Dirrell might have just plain fought him smart, ugly as it was.

If Dirrell does stink it out, and keeps Froch from landing anything big (which will be much harder than it was against Stevens, in no small part because Froch is 6'1" instead of 5'7"), and the scoring is fair, Dirrell could rout Froch.