The first round of the preliminary round is finished!




The first clash was between Arthur “King” Abraham and Jermain “Bad Intenions” Taylor. 2009/10/17

A very close on highest Boxing level Box fight with a surprising last minute Ko in the 12th round by Arthur Abraham.

Arthur welcome in Super middleweight, welcome with a perfect start in Super Six!

Leader of the first round with 3 save points.




A dirty clash between the British Puncher Carl “The Cobra”Froch and the super technical Andre "The Matrix" Direll. 2009/10/17

Direll fights with a guerilla tactic, attack go away, attack go away.

Froch was much nerved from the Fight style of Direll, and have big problems to place Direll.

The Fight was from round to round more dirty, and Direll make with his tactic and fast combinations the points,

but the bench see an another Fight and gives Froch an dubious SD victory.




The Big surprise in this first round!

The Big favorite for the most experts the Dane Mikkel “The Viking Warrior” Kessler become a lesson from the youngest Fighter in this tournament the American Andre “S.O.G” Ward. 2009/11/21

The unknown super Fighter/Puncher and underdog deconstruct Kessler over 11 rounds without a chance for Kessler to take a little air or a little pause.

Ward was always on moving, fight as southpaw, as orthodox Fighter, was very agile with his legs and his upper part of body, and always on punch with one

two three combinations.

Kessler was branded with cuts on the left and right side over his eyes that comes from head butts, that alleged not unintentionally was

However Kessler was chanceless from start to finish.

The fight was stopped in the 11th round and Ward won the fight by TD.

A new Super Star is born!








And now your mind... your personally judge...

The comment I would make, is firstly, the fights haven't been that good. Taylor vs Abraham was a nice enough fight, but the other two were uninteresting for me. If you're American, however, I'm guessing you may have liked seeing Ward dominate Kessler a little more.

Second thing I would say, is that the tournament now seems to be wide open. How good is Ward really? Did he beat a faded Kessler? Dirrell has a tough fight against Abraham, but may have the style to frustrate him and win on points. And Froch may not have the attributes of an Andre Ward, but it has to look a little better for him now taking on Kessler. If that fight turns into a war, who knows?

Ward show us that he is a fantastic Boxer with amazing skills.

Kessler and faded? I don't know he is only 30 years old, and Ward was the dominator of the evening from start to finish.

I think Direll can beat Abraham with the same tactic how again Froch, but please at this time a little bit more agressiv Direll.

Kessler vs. Froch: Yeah I believe this Fight can be a great war, and a very close Fight. The winnere ? I don't no....

Ward will no problems have again Taylor or big trouble with Froch.

The only big opponent for him is for me Direll or Abraham.

We will see.

They need to let Taylor go and give they winner of the Bute-Andrade fight a call.

I would say that you would need to start a whole new tournament for that. I don't think you can start messing about with the rules/participants of a tournament after it has already started. To replace Taylor if he were unable to continue through injury is one thing, assuming that a mechanism exists for that under the rules. But I'm guessing you would be breaking not only Taylor's contract but the contracts of all the other fighters also if you just did it because you thought someone else were the better fighter to have in it.

The star of the first round I think is clearly Andre Ward, he showed himself to be a true top caliber fighter and showed that he might be able to win this whole thing. The second round should be quite interesting with Kessler-Froch, Dirrell-Abraham and Taylor-Ward, Taylor might actually be able to do better than Kessler did against Ward and I think another surprise might happen in Dirrell-Abraham plus regardless of who wins, Kessler-Froch should be a great fight.

I hope for Kessler, that his psyche is strong enough to forget this clear loss again Ward , or I see any big problems for Kessler.



Taylor try to fight with Ward, but he have after the 4th round no chance more.



The big fight in the second round: (yeah)

Direll vs. Abrahm must start faster in this Fight, he cannot wait that his "engine" is warm enough to start in the 4- 5th round, no in this Fight he must start direct, or he he loss this Fight very close,

Direll is how a Bunny, impossible to catch and to place him in the corner for cominations.

Thats the big Joker for Direll, Abraham needs in every Fight 3 - 4 rounds to come into the Fight.

Direll start fast and attack, go away and attack absolut fast, and you can win this Fight.

But have Direll the power for 12 rounds to fight this Fight style?

And let us don't forget, Abraham is an world class Fighter too and clever enough to know what he have to do again this "Speedy Gonzales".

However say what you say, I say:

Many fans are very high on Ward after his dismantling of Kessler, but Kessler has always been a strictly basic fighter. Kessler is about as good a basic fighter as you can get, don't get me wrong, but he's always going to have trouble with fighters who are slick, who fight dirty or are just plain awkward. He admitted himself not only after this last fight, but after Calzaghe as well, that "his style was just ruined." I don't believe Kessler deserved his "favorite to win it all" status before the tourney.

For this reason I think King Arthur, not Ward, is the favorite. I cannot see any other way that Abraham does not make it into the second round. Even if Dirrell manages to outbox him over 12 rounds, which I'm skeptical of, I don't see any way that Froch vs Abraham doesn't end in a KO loss for Froch. Outboxing Abraham seems to be the only way for these guys to beat him, since as the first Miranda fight showed, Abraham is a tank of a man that is ridiculously tough to put down.