Gary Shaw interview: I had Dirrell by one ... he should have fought differently .. don't want to say robbery

by gunranger on Oct 26, 2009 1:59 PM EDT

In an interview with BBC Gary said :

we kept telling him [Dirrell] to box, but after watching him in rounds 10, 11 and 12, trading with Froch, maybe we should have traded from round one.”

Gary Shaw, Dirrell's promoter, spoke with Boxing Talk and gave his thoughts on the fight with Carl Froch:

GL: Obviously, things didn't go the way you were expecting in Andre Dirrell's WBC super middleweight title challenge against Carl Froch. Can you give us some thoughts on his performance, and also on the results?

Gary Shaw: I thought Dirrell did well for his first time on the big stage. He showed he could fight 12 rounds, and he showed he could really fight during the championship rounds. I felt we won the fight by a round. I don't think the point deduction was warranted, but it was a dirty fight on Froch's part, with a lot of hitting behind the head, continuously, even throwing him down in the fifth round. Judges need to score, in my book, not on style, but on effective blows. If you watch the fight, Dirrell landed more blows than Froch did."

GL: You had Dirrell up by one, but do you think Froch getting a decision in his hometown is robbery, or is him getting the benefit of the doubt something you expected? How do you summarize the decision?

Gary Shaw: I don't want to say it's a robbery, I just think that sometimes the crowd can get to a judge. When there's 3000 people rooting for Froch, and there are twelve people rooting for Dirrell in the arena, as an example, one of the judges gave the eleventh round to Froch. That's almost an impossibility. I would hope that the WBC would review the judges scorecards, and watch the tapes, as well as all of you writers, and the fans. I got tons of e-mail, more than a hundred of them, all saying they believe Dirrell was robbed. The British fans were quiet, so that tells you how they thought the fight went.

http://www.boxingtalk.com/pag/article.php?aid=18499

Gary also gives his thoughts on Chad Dawson's future.

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He doesn’t seem to be particularly bitter about it, maybe just a bit annoyed. He’s right that Dirrell proved more about his ability in this fight than Froch did even though he lost.

by Drunken cutman on Oct 26, 2009 3:08 PM EDT reply actions