Can Froch Still Become a Superstar If He Doesn’t Succeed in the Super Six Tournament?
August 9th, 2009
By Scott Gilfoid: Right now, things are going swimmingly in the career of WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch. He’s currently unbeaten, a champion and about to take part in the Super Six tournament starting in October 17th against Andre Dirrell. Froch, 32, is counting on winning the tournament and becoming a superstar overnight.
Froch has yet to taste the big mega money that other lucky fighters like Ricky Hatton, Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya have gotten used to receiving. However, the chances of Froch, a blue collar fighter with little hand speed and mediocre boxing skills, winning the tournament are very slim. And as I’ve said in a previous article, I have my doubts whether Froch will be able to salvage won victory in the group I part of the Super Six tourney.
This, of course, will eliminate him from the tournament and send Froch, minus his WBC belt and perhaps some of his self worth, packing his bags back to England. Froch will be fighting Dirrell, Mikkel Kessler and Arthur Abraham. Each one of those fighters are very talented with better hand speed and power on the same level of Froch.
When you look at them, it’s difficult to see Froch beating any of them. Froch may have a better chin than those fighters, but that’s about it. Even that’s not a certainty, because Froch was put down by Jermain Taylor in his last fight in April.
So where does Froch go if he’s beaten by all three opponents in the tournament? Getting knocked out of the tournament so quickly would be a good for concern on Froch’s part. It would be an indication that he doesn’t have the talent to succeed at the upper most level. Would Froch still be interested in persisting with his career, maybe in England where the competition is weaker? Froch might be able to find success there for a limited amount of time before the young lions at the local level tear him to pieces.
Surely, Froch wouldn’t likely waste his time on the world level of he’s beaten soundly in all of his three fights in the first level of the Super Six tournament. I could see him sticking around beating some of the fading super middleweights like Jeff Lacy, Taylor, or one of the good but flawed ones like Sakio Bika, Allan Green and Karo Murat, but as far as going up against champions like Kessler and Lucian Bute, I think Froch would be wasting his time in doing that.
Froch could probably make a decent living by competing as a gate keeper in the super middleweight division, but I’m not sure that’s what he has in mind with his career. His ego might prevent him from taking on a status like that. Although he might be one of those types that don’t accept that he lost and feel that the decisions were questionable or that he can improve with hard work. Eventually, however, he’ll get the picture if he continues to take on the best in the division.
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roots who the f..k is jerome taylor? is it jermains brother lol????
DIRRELL WILL SMASH FROCH TO BITS,DIRRELL IS FASTER,HITS HARDER,TOUGHER,MORE SKILLFULL AND HAS MORE STAMINA THAN JEROME TAYLOR.TAYLOR DEFENDED HIS MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE AGAINST 3 LT.MIDDLES,AND NEVER LOOKED LIKE FLOORING ANY OF THEM,YET HE PUT FROCH ON HIS BACK.DIRRELL WILL STOP FROCH.THE BRITISH FANS ARE TALKING ABOUT FROCH THE SAME WAY THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT HATTON,(he is supposed to be super strong).DON`NT BE SURPRISED WHEN DIRRELL PROVE TO BE STRONGER.
Im not a Froch fan to be fair but he does always find a way to win and carrys power 4 every second of every round and is willing to mix with the best a trait u have to admire and i think win lose or draw his all action style will earn him fans as the Americans love a warrior look how popular gatti was
dirrell will wish he never agreed 2 fight in this torney! he said he begged for the froch fight! he realy is guna find out what its like 2 mix with the best! no journeymen, no weaker opponents. this is the real thing. the best of the best in this division! i hope they got plenty of job centres in the states. cause dirrell is guna be in that queue. i just hope for u yanks that he can back his mouth up!!!
Why not talk about all six competitiors?
or at least stick to the American boxers who you know so well. You have blatantly only seen Froch’s last two fights to come to the conclusion that he is, ‘a blue collar fighter with little hand speed and mediocre boxing skills.’
Yes he doesnt really possess great handspeed, but to claim he has mediocre boxing skills when only seeing two fights.
Froch had a very good amateur background. And the most important attribute you need as a good amateur is…yes, boxing skills.
Dirrell will lose heavily against Froch, maybe an early stoppage. Dirrell has good handspeed and decent power, but nothing Froch hasnt faced before. Especially as the bout is in Froch’s bachyard, I think nerves will get the better of Dirrel. However, I believe Dirrell will get better during the tournament as he mixes with the best in the Super Middle division.
Kessler to win the Tournament!
What in the hell in wrong with you, you hate all British fighters?! You yank t**t!
Like someone has mentioned previously, what will Dirrell do if he loses all three of his fights because thats what i see will happen, he is unproven and will realise who and what he is up against within the first three seconds of his fight against Froch!
Watch he previous fights you wank, sorry yank loser!
alex can u tell me who direll has beaten or what he has done in the pro ranks 2 warrant all this hype? ive seen him put down twice by journeymen! if froch catches him it will be goodnight ireane!!!!
Not only Andre dirrel will beat froch but Anthony dirrel too. Volume ov speedy punches (regardless of the power) will put froch down. After Taylor fight froch gained tripple confidence. Now he thinks he’s on top of the supermiddle six. That’s lame.
I just wonder how many of Carl Froch’s fights Scott has seen. In his first title bout with Jean Pascalhe decided to allow himself get into a slugfest, one I’m quite sure that the majority of contributors and readers of this site would have found to be a thrilling, enthralling fight. And in his first defence against Jermaine Taylor, he debuted on american shores, and in his own admission, for the first three bouts was caught like a rabbit in the headlights, hence Taylor, another fighter who seems to be ridiculously under-rated by this contributoe, gainiong a healthy lead in the bout, but I dont think anyone can doubt Froch controlled the final five rounds, stamina issues or not.
I agree, all three are hard, hard bouts, but unwinnable? Dirrel, wonderful handspeed and combinations, is clearly unbcomfortable when placed under heavy-handed pressure, do you reallly think he can keep on his segway for the entire twelve rounds? And Kesslers lack of activity may just catch up with him.
If there were more fighters in the game with the warrior attitude of Froch, the game would be in a far healthier state, so win, lose or draw, I guarantee Froch will emerge from this tournament a superstar in boxing, a throwback to the days when the best fought the best, never with a single backward step
scott if direll loses all his fights in the tourney, what will he do?
froch will loose and be beaten by all of the fighters due bad technique & his slow hand speed. to think he was calling out calzaghe was jokes, joe would have ate him for breakfast. Against taylor he was lucky to have not gone down again but that prob was down to jermaine slowing up.
I really do think he will be exposed for his poor boxing skills in this.
This article is poor to be honest. Froch has a good chance of winning at least two of his 3 fights.
Dirrell while skillful is largely untested and will be stepping up at least a level of competition while fighting in this tournament.
Kessler is the hardest fight but since losing to Calzaghe as been very quite, fighting mediocre opposition.
Abraham is moving up a division so may have trouble carrying his power with him. He fights in bursts but I think Froch will make him work every minute of the round which may cause him some stamina problems. Not to mention the fact he hasn’t really fought anyone except miranda while fighting at home most of his career.
i completely agree with you Scott, Froch has undoubtably got the hardest fights out the bunch and i seriosuly doubt that he has learnt from his previous fight against Taylor, he’s still gonna be the same fighter who keeps his left hand low.
I think froch will do well to win any of his three fights if the taylor fight is a marker to go by.But respect to the guy for stepping up to the plate and having a go. Something Calazaghe failed to do enough times in hes career(once against Kessler. Boxing needs more tournements like this to stop the non competative title fights that take place today.
I think he will not win. If you learned anything watching him fight Jermain it is a telneted fighter just needs to stay on the outside and combination him and get out. Dont worry about finishing him and just hit him and get out and it wil be an easy night. He may end up surprising us a bit, guess we will have to wait and see.