Froch: “It’s his [Kessler] last chance of being in the big time”
February 21st, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: As usual, WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) is predicting a gloomy outlook for his April 24th opponent Mikkel Kessler, saying in an article at the Sun, “When I beat Kessler it will be the end for him. I will be finishing him off. Our fight will be his last hurrah. It’s his [Kessler] last chance of being in the big time. He has already lost twice and it will soon be three.” Man, Froch sounds like a real downer. His dour predictions always seem so gloomy.
Froch won the fight but by a deeply controversial 12 round split decision. He can twist that any way he wants, but it doesn’t look good that Froch had to struggle to win while fighting at home and come up with a victory that many people felt should have gone in Dirrell’s favor. And if that was the only fight that Froch had problems in maybe I wouldn’t be so worried for the dude.
But he looked just as bad in his fight against Jermain Taylor last year, getting knocked down and trailing in the fight into the 12th round. Yeah, Froch won the fight by a 12th round knockout but he looked awful to me and would have likely lost the bout had he not scored the knockout.
Froch struggling against Dirrell and Taylor tells me that Froch could be facing the end of his unbeaten streak when he enters the ring with Kessler on April 24th. The fight won’t be held in Froch’s home city of Nottingham where a ton of screaming fans would help Froch.
And if the decision winds up close, I seriously doubt the judges will give Froch the benefit of the doubt, not this time. Close [read: controversial] decisions usually wind up going to the home fighter and last time I checked that’s not going to be Froch. Not this time. So if Froch is going to win this fight, he’s going to have to look mighty impressive and show some real skills in their against Kessler.
Froch won’t be able to rough Kessler up, not be penalized and then have the referee inexplicably penalize Kessler for holding without penalizing Froch for holding and hitting, throwing rabbit punches or body slamming. I think if Froch fights like that, he’s going to lose plain and simple. Froch is going to have to show some skills if he wants this fight.
I don’t see Froch knocking Kessler out. As such, I think Froch is going to end up losing a one-sided 12 round decision to Kessler. Scoring a knockout is probably Froch’s only chance of winning, but if an incredible fighter like American Andre Ward can’t knockout Kessler, then a slow-moving, upright fighting Froch most certainly won’t be able get the job done.
If there’s any knocking out to be done, it’s going to be Kessler knocking out Froch. Kessler won’t be afraid to go after Froch is he gets him in trouble, and as we saw in Froch’s bout against the talented Andre Dirrell, Froch was hurt at least twice in that fight.
There could be some lingering damage to Froch’s chin from the big left hand howitzer shot that Dirrell tagged him with in the 10th round. All Kessler has to do is hit Froch as hard as he can with one of his big rights on Froch’s lantern jaw, and we could be seeing Froch going down for the count. Kessler needs to test Froch’s chin early and often to see whether Dirrell left some lasting damage from his fight with him.
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Martin and Nottinghamshirebullterrior thanks for that i feel suitably embarrassed. I think that Kessler has lost the belief in himself somehow whilst Froch still has it.
nottinghamshirebullterrior, B*LL END
Im english and love boxing,and i also support froch.But im not stupid and no that froches style is gonna land him in deep water when he faces a real puncher like arthur abrahm,who can put you to sleep with either hand.He makes me nervouse how low he holds his hands.But i will support him every time because im english and he has the heart of a lion and he can bang as hard as abraham and harder than any of the other super six and a chin like a rock,and that what gives him a chance.
I’m from the uk and I’ve never been very interested in froch as a person or fighter. He’s to arrogant for someone with hardly any boxing skills. He ranted on about khan being boring, if there was a supper middle version of khan, who’d win, froch or khan? I think he just looks awful as a fighter. I’d probably respect what he’s achieved if he wasn’t so full of it
bruno – carl froch is from nottingham
lee coooo – shut up
i got Kessler over Froch on this one . and see both losing to Arthur Abraham
End of the day who has kessler beat? His only claim to fame is losing to calzaghe.
Froch takes him out late
This fight is gonna be a good old fashioned tear up and i see Kessler coming out on top. Both fighters like to trade shots but i think Kessler is the more inteligent boxer of the two and will know when to trade and when to move. Froch on the other hand is pretty one dimensional and will just plod forward all night relying on his chin. Froch may have a slighty better chin but id give Kessler the edge in the power department.
CANT WAIT TO SEE froch lose gunned down amir khan… tHE MAN cant even get a sky package …not even a paid one ..forget a sky viewing card …..No one would show him for free
I hear Dirrell is taking up Marathon running as he enjoys running so much – In fact he is so quick noone except you saw his “left hand howitzer” in round 10 against Froch before losing on points.
Another day another swipe at Froch from Gilfraud – Yawn.
BTW Bruno Nottingham is in Nottinghamshire.
I hope Kessler ko’s Froch. Fact is if that fight against Dirrell was in America Dirrell would of won. Being the aggressor gets points but when you’re not landing and the other guys face looks the same as when he entered the ring this doens’t bode well for you but perspective is something else.
TO SEE IF DIRRELL LEFT ANY LASTING DAMAGE???? LOL DIRRELL RAN ALL NIGHT AND DIDNT HURT FROCH ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“But I hate to say it, but I think Froch is the one that needs to be concerned with being finished off.” – Really? Sounds like you like Froch.
“Froch won the fight by a 12th round knockout but he looked awful to me and would have likely lost the bout had he not scored the knockout” – Diaz was beating Marquez on the cards until Marquez scored the KO. It means Marquez is better then Diaz, the points did not matter.
“There could be some lingering damage to Froch’s chin from the big left hand howitzer shot that Dirrell tagged him with in the 10th round.” – Did you not see Froch v Pascal? You saw Froch v Taylor right? But no, it was that one shot from sponge gloves Dirrell that changed the career of Carl Froch.
Your a funny guy.
Regardless of who is the better fighter, its disrespectful to trash talk and if froch will feel like more of a loser if he loses
why this cannabilization among white boxers
I’d actually say that Kessler would be the one carrying more risidual damage from the first round match in to this fight. Froch should definately be trying to open up some of those big gashes Kessler sustained after all the butting in the Ward fight.
scott if u have a problem with froch’s win over dirrell then hold ur grudge against the judges…. not froch unless u think they were all froch’s mates and he somehow doctored the panel.
the fight was judged on what the fighters did in the ring and obviously they saw froch won, on what he showed in the ring.
they are professionals,they have expertise in the field and therefore they should not be questioned to such a degree as you do.
froch record says enough to say he had the edge on dirrell, fair enough they are very different fighters,with different skillsets, but i’m sorry when u go to fight a champion for his belt then to quote many a fighter/champion from both sides of the pond ‘to beat a champion and take his title you have to wrestle it from his grasp’.
unfortunately for dirrell and his fans he got nowhere near doing this then therefore the title and belt stayed in froch’s ownership.
And what a great chin Froch has. Kessler is the one who will be forced to fight a war and will be knocked out into retirement.
FROCH IS RUBBISH SCOTT AND HE DOES HYPE FIGHTS WITH OUTLANDISH CLAIMS OF BIG KO’S. ON THE FLIPSIDE YOU SAY DIRRELL WAS GONNA DO ALL THIS AND MORE TO FROCH AND IT NEVER HAPPENED, AND DO THE SAME TO ABRAHAM.
I HOPE KESSLER WAS JUST RUSTY AGAINST WARD WHO LOOKED GOOD IN THERE FIGHT. I HOPE KESSLER DOES A JOB ON FROCH BECAUSE IVE NEVER LIKE HIM. HE ALWAYS SAID HE WOULD OF BEATEN CALZAGHE BUT JOE WOULD OF GIVE HIM THE KICKING OF HIS LIFE. THIS IS WHY FROCH IS MOANING IN THE PAPER TODAY ABOUT SKY NOT SHOWING THE FIGHT WHEN THEY ARE SHOWING KHANS AND HAYES. THE REASON IS THE MAJORITY OF THE BRITISH BOXING FANS SEE FROCH AS A LOUD BIG PUNCHER WITH NO REAL BOXING ABILITY.
Whats this Scott are you saying people from Yorkshire are dour and gloomy?