No Holds Barred: Charles Farrell Reviews Abraham-Taylor, Froch- Dirrell, and Rachael Cordingley

Thursday, 05 November 2009

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman speaks with our
colleague and correspondent Charles Farrell, the award-winning boxing
writer and fight manager, about the somewhat disappointing first round
of fights in the super middleweight tournament known as the World
Boxing Classic, held Saturday, October 17.

In those fights, undefeated former middleweight titleholder Arthur
Abraham (31-0, 25 KOs) won with a brutal twelfth-round knockout of
former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (28-4-1,
17 KOs) at the O2 World Arena in Berlin, Germany, while WBC champion
Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KOs) won an ugly split decision over previously
unbeaten Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KOs) at the Trent FM Arena in
Nottingham, England.

We discussed these fights themselves; why Abraham emerged as the clear
winner of all the fighters Saturday night; why the devastating
knockout of Taylor, the third in his last five fights, should signal
the end of his career as a boxer; how both Froch and Dirrell gave
dismal performances, and the supposed controversy over the outcome of
their fight; an evaluation of the next fight in this tournament, when
Mikkel Kessler faces Andre Ward November 21 in Oakland, Calif., as
well as the second and third rounds of this tournament; why, despite
its less-than-inspiring start, the tournament could still be
successful; how potential dropouts in the tournament could endanger
it; why so many people remain so cynical and negative about everything
in boxing, as happens in the last stages of a dying romantic
relationship; and why so much of the boxing public is instead talking
about Carl Froch's girlfriend, Rachael Cordingley (http://
www.rachaelcordingley.com/).

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