Froch forced to get sloppy seconds against Kessler
November 29th, 2009
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch is going to have to settle for a fight against former World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler in 2010 without Kessler’s title being on the line after the Danish fighter was soundly beaten by American talent Andre Ward on November 21st in Oakland, California. Not only will the title not be at stake for Froch, but also given the terrible beating that Kessler took against Ward, Froch won’t likely get nearly as much credit as he would have received had he been the first fighter to beat Kessler in the Super Six tournament.
That’s too bad. Froch already didn’t look good in his last fight against Andre Dirrell, winning by a controversial 12 round split decision. Dirrell staggered Froch in the 10th round with a big left hand to the head and it looked to me – and more than a few other boxing fans – that Dirrell had won the fight. All of this would be forgotten if Froch would have beaten Kessler while he still held onto his WBA title. As it is, Froch will get little credit if he beats Kessler and a whole lot of criticism of he fails at the task. I correctly predicted the outcome of the Kessler-Ward fight long before the fight took place.
I could see that Kessler was getting a long in the tooth in the past year and I knew Ward was going to handle him without many problems. However, I don’t think that Kessler is so far gone that the likes of Froch can beat him. Froch doesn’t have the hand speed or foot movement to handle the technically oriented Kessler, and I think Froch is going to have big problems again him.
Froch also won’t be able to count on his Nottingham fans to back him in this fight because the fight will be taking place in Denmark, the home of Kessler. Froch will be fighting in a strange land, in front of a hostile crowd against a faster, more technical fighter in the 30-year-old Kessler. I don’t see anything good that can come of this for Froch.
Either way, Froch ends up looking bad in this. The only way that Froch can get out of this fight looking good is if he flattens Kessler in the 1st or 2nd round. Other than that, Froch is in a near no win situation. This is why he needs to go all out to try and get to Kessler as early as possible. Ward jumped all over Kessler early in the fight and basically took the fight out of him. Can Froch do this? I’m not so certain. With Froch’s straight up style of fighting, he’ll be a sitting duck for Kessler’s jabs and hooks as he comes forward trying to land.
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So you are agreeing then that Kessler is old and rubbish, and thus Andre Wards win was meaningless?
WOT A LOAD OF TROLLOP
Froch really is going to look like a clown in Calzaghe’s and the boxing publics eyes when he loses against Kessler who Calzaghe beat. Shouldn’t hate and be jealous of other fighters this is the last big payday for froch, and on top of that there is no belt, and he has to fight kessler in his own yard risking his Wbc belt to a fighter looking to get a belt and back on track good luck.
mark my words,ward will get beat by taylor!
Kessler had a bad outing against Ward becuase he couldn’t deal with all the movement but against Froch he will get back some of his luster. Froch is a one trick Pony and Kessler is much more skilled. Mikkel may knock him out. If Taylor could hurt Froch I expect Kessler to deal out a grand beating and in doing so put himself right back into the mix in the tourney!!
Scott the only way you will ever get laid is through sloppy seconds
Froch v Ward in the final. Ward is going to get KTFO.
Kessler is well past it, i hate saying that as im a big fan of his but he was just awful against Ward and to be honest i wasn’t overly impressed with Ward either. I’d definitely pick Dirrell, Abraham or Froch against him and i think Froch will beat Kessler way better than Ward did, hell he will probably even use his fists!
“I don’t think that Kessler is so far gone that the likes of Froch can beat him.” Haha, Gilfoid, what a laugh. In another article you stated that Froch would beat Kessler. With that kind of doubletalk it is no wonder you get a prediction right every once in a while. Next article you will have it a draw, after that a KO for Froch, and after that a KO for Kessler. And after the fight next spring you will be as high as a kid on 10 pounds of candy because you got something right. That is my prediction.
It’s good to see all these bias American authors giving Froch excellent exposure. They just can’t stop talking about him and even more than their own home grown fighters!
Keep it up Scott! It’s always good to hear from fellow Carl Froch fans!
kessler is the weakest link he will lose to every figher in the super six even taylor- anyone who thinks other wise is not a boxing expert!
ur talking tosh a wins a win, doesn’t mattter if he wins it in first, second or 12th round sick of reading ur garbage well done u predicted ur first correct fight for the past 3 years, still doesn’t make up for 46 and counting others … idiot
yes you’re right Dirrel had won the fight. But Froch is a lucky dude because he ducked Lucian Bute in the last summer. Bute would beat Froch any day of the week and twice on sunday. And Froch knew taht all the time.
very good articale i never usually read many of this site but this is well written.
Well no wonder the site hit its bandwidth limit when so many people log on to read your comedy articles.
Penny hasn’t yet dropped for many, do your gibberish articles draw a crowd? Yes. Why else would you be allowed to flood the site going over the same boxers over and over and over, its simply to provoke reaction, and to draw traffic.
Boxing fan? No
im not a big fan on sloppy seconds myself thanx, its just to messy, lol
I am glad you called yourself a boxing fan this time rather than expert.
Is Ward forced to have sloppy thirds after Taylor was soundly and uncontroversially knocked cold, by Froch and Abrahams ?