Froch may Regret Fighting in the Super Tourney
July 5th, 2009
By Scott Gilfoid: With the latest news about Carl Froch taking part in the planned upcoming super middleweight tourney by Showtime, I don’t like Froch’s chances in the tournament for any of success. In fact, I see Froch getting beaten by every opponent that he’s put in there with aside from Jermain Taylor. Froch, 31, will be facing Andre Dirrell in the first bout of the tournament on October 10th.
Froch might have a tiny chance of beating the likes of Dirrell, and Kessler, if Froch didn’t keep his hands low below his waist. Unfortunately, Froch likes to fight with his hands low like Roy Jones Jr. except that unlike Jones, Froch gets hit a lot.
In his fight with Taylor, Froch was getting nailed early and often and if not for Taylor running out of gas in the 2nd half of the fight, Froch would have likely lost the fight by decision. Froch likes to hang his chin out as if daring his opponents to hit him.
Against Taylor, Froch was getting banged like an old cowbell by Taylor, who took advantage of Froch hanging his big lantern jaw out there without any kind of protection by tagging him repeatedly with big shots in the early part of the fight.
If not for Taylor’s sudden exhaustion that messed him up in the second half, Froch would likely not even be mentioned as a participant for this tournament. Never the less, if Froch gets beaten as bad as I think he will in the tourney, this will be the last one that he takes part, especially if Froch gets knocked out like I think he will.
I think Froch has big heart, but talent is needed to compete with fine fighters like these. Even Joe Calzaghe would likely be in deep trouble if he were to fight in this tournament. I doubt he’d want to participate, because of the huge amount of tough fighters that he would be forced ton fight. But if he did, I see Calzaghe losing to Dirrell and Ward, and struggling against Abraham.
Froch might have been better off if he had chosen not to fight in the tournament and instead padded his record like Calzaghe by facing Mario Veit a couple of times and Evans Ashira. As Taylor showed, it doesn’t necessarily take a lot to give Froch problems.
If Froch is forced to deal with speed, power and movement, he has problems. He might be able to compete for a couple of rounds but eventually he’ll have problems and will lose by a landslide. Dirrell is a step above Taylor and Jean Pascal, Froch’s last two opponents. Froch struggled in both of those fights, so I see him losing by a shutout to Dirrell, who is a lot better than Pascal and Taylor in my book.
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So if Froch stayed at home fighting low key opposition as you suggest you wouldn’t slaughter him right? So now he’s taking part in this tourney against the divisions best you suggest he should have stayed at home!
Plus all of those fighters would have beaten Calzaghe!! You are priceless.
This writer is the reason I stopped coming on this site last year after the most stupid article I’ve ever seen about the ref saving Haye from being knocked out against Barratt. I come on here to see if there’s anything interesting & I see this pile of sh!te!! Cheers Scott, you’ve managed to convince me never to come on this site again.
Class only gets you so far. Power, heart and durability are what clinch it. Sound like anyone you know…..
He’s just miserable cos his mother takes it in the ass….from a Brit
LFMAO Calzaghe in trouble? Your a clown! The only trouble joe would have might be kessler but he has already beaten him.
I don’t know who’s the worse mug.
This Scott fellow for writing this or me having spent the time to read the crap. Annoyed as i am, i want to tell you that, i believe Froch to be a very hard fighter. When watching him against Taylor i wondered how anyone could not think hes terrible defensibly,and utterly beatable.
But, and its a biggun, carl’s a very hard guy, an English streetfighter type, and i’d bet my house on him doing us proud again, whoever the opponent.
After all,you can be the fastest classiest boxer in the world and do great, untill a true fighter comes along and knocks you out. UNNERVING is the word i think i’ve been looking for to describe him.
Boxing is still prize fighting and no real fighter ever regrets having fought another good fighter and made a nice fat purse.
I hate Britain, Froch cant beat anyone, calzaghe had a terrible record and would lose to any american including me, i am a virgin
Come on Scotty, your British really
some quick facts from the next ted atlas Scott Gilford
1. Lacy would beat calzahge in a rematch
2. Laszcano was robbed in his fight with Hatton
3. Hopkins suddenly grew ten years younger in between the Calzaghe and Pavlik fights meaning pavlik would obviously beat Calzaghe
ok i lied about the 3rd one (he did however say pavlik would beat Calzaghe)
but honest to god he said the first 2.
you have to be the worst boxing writer in the world,without a dout you know nothing at all.
apart from kessler and AA he would wipe the floor with the rest FACT. wake up who ever runs this site because this man is a compleat muppet and giving the site a bad rep
Another unbiased pro British article from the man in the know Scotty not. lol
Word is now the Froch v Bute fight has fallen through, Froch is seeking a fight with Dirrell which will take place within the next three months.
Abraham KO Froch, grow up did u see AA’s last but one fight (cant remember his name but it was a lacklustre 12 rounder). I honestly believe that AA and Pavlik are as bad as eachother for avoiding oneanother but if push came to shove Pavlik would win.
As for Ward, this has Froch Ko all over it and if he boxes the way he did against Pascal in the middle rounds he can beat Kessler on points, as his speed is nothing like Taylors
Froch may have balls…..the balls to get KO’d by Ward, Kessler, and Abraham. Outpointed by Dirrell and a better conditioned Taylor.
these are all blown up middles apart from kessler and frosh they should put in dawson and hopkins it would be better
kessler would beat everyone on this tkoing froch and probably koing abraham as he is too weak for smw just like the rest of those fighters
pratts like you make me dislike americans!
JC would have beaten all these fighters before he retired, but now who knows, but who cares, JC will be remembered as a better fighter than all those. People forget that JC fought the last few years of his career at less than 100% due to hand troubles. If you match all these fighters in their primes JC would destroy all of them. I do agree froch will struggle and I would be surprised if Kessler was not the last one standing.
even though u was a bit strong,i think froch is punching above his weight in terms of ability,your article went out of the window as soon as you mentioned jc.he would COMFORTABLY wipe the floor with all the boxers in this tournament,probably not koing them,but comprehensively outpointing all of them!!TWAT!!
I know nothing of this tournement but i already dont like the sound of it.
Theres mulitple great matchups that should be gettin made under normal fight conditions in a 12 round fight i see no need for some stupid pointless tournement.
The contender is great and any other similar tournement is good and enteraining but they consist of young or old fighters not at the top of the tree.
For those that are at the top of the tree lets have it proper done in a proper way.
This is such a joke of a article, calzaghe would beat everyone of those fighters, just another bittr yank with no clue.
Froch will knock dirrell,taylor and ward out.
It will be between kessler,abraham and froch.
So no americans unlucky scott.
Dave stevens if ou watched the taylor fight you would of seen frochs trainer tellin him in between every round to get his hands up.
Dirrell and ward are flashs in the pan, they have fought one name between them, both will fail when they step up to the best EUROPE has to offer.
I think if Frotch landed himself a better defence trainer he would be a lot better. He has managed to get away with his style up to yet as the competition has not been at top level yet. I think he has great potential as long as he sorts his defence out. He has got the power, The heart and a granite chin. Almost perfect. Just needs to get his defence up to speed and he can get up there with the best of them.
you call fighters for ducking people and when they dont they still get grief – only in boxing
This tourney is a ridiculous, all it shows is that american promoters will do anyting to drag Froch, Kessler and Abraham out of their comfort zones as it will be the only way the yanks will stand a chance, look at Taylor, a guy who was meant to have been there and done it all yet was too scared to travel despite being the challenger, weak character
Dirrell, Ward and Abraham would give Calzaghe as many problems as Ricky Hatton gave Manny Pacquiao…
I like how despite the fact there are 6 fighters in this tournament you choose to pick on the Brit fighter. Why not Jermain Taylor? He is in the worst form of the lot is he not?
why does Pavlik fight in this, did the guy drop off the face of the earth?
*CANT on 3 good fights*
as a person calzaghe is a topman, as a boxer he is so so talented and gifted and great as a legend i dont rate him. simply becaus u can on 3 good fights.
who u hate scott. internet hardman, gud 2 hav u bk
bang on scott, paper champ
great article. calzaghe ducked everyone. froch didnt though.
i hate him i hate him i hate him