All Fighters Should Be Like Froch
May 14th, 2009
By William Mackay: In recent years, boxing has gone downhill with fighters have become more and more focused on building up their records by taking the easiest fights possible at the expense of developing their skills by facing better opponents. In a lot of cases, you have fighters with dramatically build up records (often unbeaten) with only a small handful of halfway credible opponents.
Many fighters would never dream of fighting an opponent that they felt was better than them. Froch doesn’t care. If he has to travel across the world and fight one of his challengers in their own country, like Jermain Taylor, Froch is willing to do it. That is so rare.
Joe Calzaghe didn’t travel to the U.S. until late in his career when he was only a couple fights away from retirement. Bernard Hopkins, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Roy Jones Jr. were never interested in traveling to another country to fight on hostile soil.
Froch didn’t care, because he felt that he would win anyway because of his better talent. And sure enough, Froch proved that he was right in making the move. Froch knows that these big named opponents would never come to him, so he came to them. Froch is totally flexible, willing to travel to another country or meet them in Britain if they’re open to coming there.
But what I like about Froch most of all is that he’s willing to take on the best at all times, and doesn’t believe in cheating boxing fans by taking the easy path by fighting soft opponents to try and pad his record and extend his career. Froch is smart enough to know that boxing fans are sick of fighters that are unwilling to take risky fights and who retire suddenly just when they’re presented with some tough opponents.
Recently, Froch said “Everyone is saying Mikkel Kessler is the hardest fight out there for me, they’re saying don’t fight him. I’ll fight him and I’ll prove everyone wrong.” This is what’s so great about Froch. While most people think that Kessler would be too talented for Froch, and would likely beat him, Froch doesn’t care.
He’s ready to fight Kessler at the drop of a hat and is actively seeking out a fight with him. I don’t know if Froch can beat Kessler, but I do know that Froch will get a lot more respect for being willing to fight Kessler no matter where it is. You got to respect Froch for that.
Froch may not be as talented as some fighters in the super middleweight division, but he’s got more courage than most fighters that I can think of. I think Froch sets the example of what other boxers should strive to be like. If all fighters were like him, believe me, the sport would be much more exciting and not in the state it’s in now.
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great review boxers should be like froch. he wants the big fights hes taken the long route to world champ going through domestic and european belts first now hes here he wants to fight the best to become a legend. i think kessler will will to powerful for him though with kessler very fast and frochs low left hand kesslers fast and powerful one twos will prove to be enough. i think he will fight lucian bute who he will beat i believe and unify the belts. carl froch a exciting fighter great heart great chin but against any world class fighter is going to be outboxed
Totally agree with you, but you have to respect fighters like Hatton too, who has also gone to America and never been scared to fight anyone but the best opposition. And please… don’t bring up about him not fighting Junior Witter…
I completely agre with Mr Mckay.
Froch is exactly what sport is about, not just boxing any sport, professional, amateur sport played at all levels.
You test yourself and compete to be the very best you can be and better than those who oppose you.
Boxing is losing this basic sporting nature. People ducking fights that do all the above to fight meaningless fights that dont prove anything but bring big money.
I would rather see Pavlik v Abraham than Marquez v Pacquiao 3. The 2nd is probably the more exciting of the 2 but the 1st is much more meaningful.
Kessler v Froch, Bute v Froch, even Taylor v Froch 2 are more interesting to me than Froch v Hopkins.
And it is to Froch too. Great stuff indeed.
I dont think Froch would struggle with Calzaghe.
He’s a better fighter than Lacy, Bika and Kessler in my book.
Plus he handles southpaws well.
Better than orthadox’s actually and thats why Enzo C was never keen on his boy fighting Froch.
Froch has a big straight right hand that he would get Joe with at some point no doubt.
good article, fact is froch isn’t amazing and would have got beaten by calzaghe (probably still would) and kessler would probably do a number on him but the fact is he doesn’t care,
whatever his motivation is, money or reputation i’m glad he’s doing it and more boxers shoudl look to do the same
same could be said for hatton, he put his record on the line against fighters who were significently better than him doesn’t matter that he lost fact is he did it
Good article, he is not the greatest of fighters but he will not shirk from anyone and going over to America for his first defence was the guttsiest 1st defence a brit has made (Bruno had a massive payday and thousands of travelling fans when he fought tyson).
Some people say Froch is disrespectful to Joe C but he is more confident than anything, he just dont want to live in his shadow, like Joe did with Benn and Eubank for years and respect means more to him than a big payday
Froch embodies what I love about boxing.
As Stated he might not be the most talented (dancing around the ring backwards like a certain Mayweather Jr., which isn’t exciting) but he’s a juggernaught.
He shows this in all his fights to date coming forward showing heart and a mental toughness.
The reason he hasnt fought any1 yet is because his career is jus beginning!! he got lucky??? how is it luck, you throw punches to knock an opponant out when they hit be in the 1st 30 secs or the last it doesnt matter u still have to trow them and if the other guy doesnt move then…..! mayb he wudnt beat kessler, but who in that division wud??? Froch is up and coming hes an old school boxer who isnt intimidated by big fight and big critics!!!
You’ve missed the point of the article Danny, its irrelevant how good a fighter Froch is, the fact is he is a world champion who wants to fight the best out there and has little or no regard for his fight record that other modern fighters are far too concerned about.