Kessler vs. Froch: Look for Mikkel to school Froch on April 17th
February 2nd, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) will taste defeat for the first time on April 17th in his stage 2 Super Six bout against former WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (42-2, 32 KO’s) when they step into the ring for action in Kessler’s home country of Denmark.
Froch, 32, better get used to the experience, because he’s going to very likely be getting beaten against in his stage 3 bout in the Super Six tourney when he meets up a slightly tarnished Arthur Abraham, who will likely be fresh off a lopsided 12 round defeat at the hands of American Andre Dirrell.
Froch has good support; I don’t imagine a huge swarm of British fans will be coming over to Denmark like the typical fan base that follows British fighter Ricky Hatton around the globe. It’s good that Froch cares about his fans, but I still see Kessler wiping the deck with Froch all night long in this fight. Kessler just seems to be on another level, and Froch is really kind of mechanical and slow moving.
As long as Kessler doesn’t age overnight, he should have more than enough left in the tank to easily handle Froch. Kessler was beaten in his last fight against Andre Ward in an 11 round technical decision on November 21st. Kessler looked nothing short of horrible in that fight, but the thing of it is, Ward was just really good and able to take advantage of Kessler’s inability to fight on the inside. Froch won’t be able to capitalize on Kessler’s poor inside fighting ability like Ward, mainly because Froch doesn’t fight well on the inside either.
Froch is a typical European fighter who fights in a ramrod straight up style with his head leaning slightly forward. The only thing I can see that is Western about Froch is that he fights with his hands down by his sides for some reason. I don’t have a clue why Froch does this, because it doesn’t seem to serve him very well.
I mean, he doesn’t pull his hands up in time to block incoming shots much of the time, making his chin and face block a lot of the shots. At this point in his career, I think Froch won’t likely be changing this defensive style anytime soon, so I’m expecting him to be still fighting like that when he faces Kessler in April. Without good movement, defense or hand speed, I see Froch getting drilled to pieces against Kessler.
This is going to be much worse than the Dirrell-Froch fight, because Kessler won’t move around as much and clinch. Oh, I do think that Kessler will move some, but not to the extent that Dirrell did in his fine performance against Froch. Kessler is going to be raining shots down on Froch, snapping his head back again and again with hard jabs like an ocean buoy during severe storm.
Prediction: Kessler by lopsided 12 round decision
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Hello Corba Fans. My fight against Mikkel is in Herning now, I agreed to it. I want to apologize to my fans, I will make that up with a devasting display of human violence come 17th April. Mikkel is a worthy world class opponent and Im glad im getting this oppurtunity to take him on and showcase my skills. As for Arthur, I will beat him easy. His style is tailer made for me and he is another good name on my record. I’m looking forward to upping my points in my up and coming 2 fights with brutal knock-outs. I dont do my talking on the internet but i fought i would drop in and say to my Fans that training starts soon and im doing very well, when 17th april comes, you will see prime Carl Froch doing what he does best!!
everbody keeps thinking that Froch will lose all his fights and he just keeps on winning he will beat Kessler
Direll will run from the King the king will catch him and dow he goes Direll is the typacal run and clinck fighter like RJ and JR they make me very unhappy when they get a way with not fighting and ring fans call them great fighters. muhammed Ali was a great fighter he fought everybody!
Did not even bother Reading the article as soon as saw Scott and then saw Froch (British fighter) I knew it was going to be BS… come on Froch KO Kessler just so we can hear Gilfoid really pathetic but hilarious excuses haha
every time i read one of your articles i get to one statement so outrageous or stupid i can’t continue reading.
this time it was: “As long as Kessler doesn’t age overnight”
see this implies that kessler has looked good in his last few fights. he hasn’t. you actually said as much in your articles leading up to his fight with ward. his performance against ward was by far the worst of his career. he looked flat, bereft of ideas &, yes, old.
whether it was down to the personal problems he’s had in the last few years or the breakdown in the relationship between him & his promoter & trainer or whether he just hasn’t been the same since losing to calzaghe is up for debate.
imo kessler wins. but at least my opinion is based on a little bit of knowledge in the area. unlike the writer of this article.
Scott how come you didn’t write the same repetitive diatribe about David Haye again? Come on you’re slipping.
No way scott.. not going to happen!
i see kessler winning a ud. he has supirior speed and skill. as far as his loss ward, he is proven in bouncing back from a loss. dirrel had froch hurt in that fight and taylor knocked his ass down in their fight so froch can be koed. late stoppage or ud, kessler.
Carl froch, dont like him at all 1st fight against taylor every1 knows he scraped it, he was very lucky, taylor out boxed him in every dept and put him down. 2nd fight dirrell what a boxer, 4 some 1 unknown before super six torney he did a preety good job on carl froch i had dirrell winning by 2 rounds carl could not pin him, and dirrell just slipped through him with some good shots. 3rd fight kessler! what a fight does kessler have enough left i dont know, comming off a defeat it makes me wonder. carl will struggle a lot in this 1 kessler to sharp, faster, and more powerfull if carl dont keep his hand up i see a ko
Scott thinks Kessler will win, so my money is on Froch for sure.
Thanks Scott!
Another hilarious article, well done Gilfoid.
scott Froch WON against Dirrell…watch the fight again…
it was messy but he won…
ward beat Kessler on a bad night with foul play…
no one can say how this will pan out… but i see Carl getting through…he has the knack
Read the story line! new straight away who had wrote it “SCOTT”,you only write these biased slants to get a reaction but your so predicable now mate,its a 50/50 fight for both boxers its who wonts it most!!! i’d say Froch is the more hungrier and remember Kessler is coming off a beating by Ward so i think Froch by a late stoppage.
Seeing as you get every single prediction completely wrong… I think Froch will win this one by late stoppage. The guy has too much heart and incredible stamina. If Froch catches Kessler clean then Kessler will drop and Kessler will be much easier to hit then Taylor and Dirrell.
Try writing an article that does not include a British fighter.
You really are the most repetitive, boring writer! Do you genuinely not have anything more interesting to write?
AND SLEEP
I think that this will be one of the most exciting fights of the tournament – 2 boxers who like to trade punches and go toe to toe! I personally find Froch to be a boxer who you just can’t bet against! He is one of the hardest hitters in the game and his chin acts as a third glove! To say that Kessler will ‘school’ Froch is simply ridiculous, they are both tough fighters and to this day… froch is yet to be defeated!!
There is no way there will be as much holding and spoiling in this fight as we endured last time out from the hugger Dirrell, who lost to Froch by the way.
Dirrels ‘fine’ performance? Dude if you call running away then clinching for dear life fine…. Are you a Yuri Foreman fan?
after seeing what kessler brought to the table against ward you’re still so sure froch will get schooled ?
i think the odds have evened themselves out to more of a 50/50 result.
the only edge kessler has is experience, and to be truthful its only after wards win that you were sying kessler was shot and should consider quitting.
now you’re saying he’ll school froch. froch has the chin to stay with kessler,its about how froch fights kessler not the other way round. if froch brings his ‘A’ game boxes clever and picks his shots kessler will be in trouble. then again froch’s willingness to trade in a war could be his downfall.although looking at his win against pascal there are few at the weight that will stay with froch in the supermid division.
dirrell proved that if u got no power u gotta run, and then u look bad and lose fights.
view froch on his results, not performances.ur only as good as ur last opponent. so in gilfoids eyes froch is a super star,cos scott thinks dirrell is a world beater.