Froch downplays the punishment he took in Dirrell fight
March 6th, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) makes light of the shots he absorbed in his questionable 12 round split decision against Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) in their stage 1 Super Six bout last October in Nottingham, England. Froch, 32, says in article at the Sun “The fight with him [Dirrell] was tricky and demanding, but put absolutely no wear or tear on me physically. After I won the WBC title against Jean Pascal I was as stiff as a plank in the morning.
I think Froch is forgetting about the punishment he took in the later rounds of the fight when Froch was staggered by a howitzer left hand from Dirrell that briefly had Froch staggering. Dirrell later appeared to hurt Froch again with another tremendous left to the head. Luckily for Froch, Dirrell didn’t pour it on and go for the knockout. We can only guess what might have happened had he really went after Froch with both fists flying.
But for Froch to say that he didn’t take punishment makes me think he’s not remembering the fight clearly, because he was hurt twice from what I saw of the fight. Any time a fighter is hurt in a bout, there’s a chance that there the fighters’ ability to take punishment in the future diminishes. We don’t know yet how Froch will do against his next opponent former WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler when they fight on April 24th, in their stage 2 Super Six bout which will be held in Kessler’s country of Denmark.
But if Dirrell shook something lose in Froch’s brain housing with his potent left hand shots in the 10th, 11th and 12th rounds, the after effects of those big shots could be seen in Froch’s bout with Kessler. Although he doesn’t get a lot of credit for being a good puncher, Kessler has respectable power, especially with his left hook and right hand. If I’m Kessler, I’m going to go after Froch immediately and land as many head shots as I can to see if the Dirrell fight took something out of Froch.
Kessler could end up taking Froch early if he puts in a concerted effort at testing Froch’s chin early in the fight. When you get hurt in a fight you never really know how the fighter will look in his next bout when he starts eating shots to the head. Kessler will have little problems landing his power shots against Froch with his hands down by sides the way he likes to keep them when he fights.
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“Yeah Scott, he was well and truly busted up after that fight wasn’t he” Incase you didn’t get that, it is called sarcasm. You americans will catch on to it in a few more decades!
froch took no punishment?!?!
Hey Gimboid – see you’re still writing b*llocks, you sad little man.
Scott seemed to watch a different fight to everyone else. I bet Dirrel’s legs were sore after all that running.
I literally posted a comment yesterday on 1 of scotts articles saying how i bet everything i own that he makes yet again another anti froch article & guess what i wasn’t wrong, it doesn’t even matter if scotts correct or incorrect, he is now offically a froch hating internet troll with nothing else to comment on to do with boxing, its like he only knows about how bad froch is & how good dirrell is. i’d like to see an article not aimed at froch. its called boxing, scott, not froching! (haa)
@froch sucks….. you just named 7 boxers 3 of witch will be retired in 1 or 2 years!!!! after that who else have you got….
for me the only world class fighters you will have in 2 years is: williams,pavlik,dawson,bradley,dirrell,ward and one or to more coming through!!! bobs write the uk have just as many future champs…. for the size of both country the uk is miles ahead! your population is 6 times ours… so if we had 6 times the amount of fighters we would have almost every belt!!!
if you look at every weight class bar a few the uk will be chalenging and arguably beating the US.
heaveys..haye, fury, price
light hev..cleverly, jeffries
sup mid…froch,degale
mid………macklin, barker
light mid..saunders,moore
welter……brook
lit welter..gavin,khan
light…….mitchell
there the fighters that will be challenging over the next few years. with hopkins mayweather, jones, and others retiring soon maybe the uk will take over!
Your article forgot to mention Lennox Lewis and Joe Calzaghe ? Oh Yeah, I forgot, they both beat every American put in front of them. Froch will win the Super Six, Ward and Dirrell were not rated better than Jeff Lacy and what happened to him ? When Froch wins you lot should retire.
Just read this article, what the hell is this bloke on about. Froch took shots that has dented his risistance to punches!!!
I want to know why so called experts, fans, followers of the sport always come out with pure rubbish like this. Dirrell fought a good fight, I think he could of got descission but he was negative. Froch at times looked sloppy and maybe he underestamated Dirrell but he tried and hung in there, close fight but I did give it to Froch but was close. Pascal fight far better, however Dirrell is tricky and anyone is going to have trouble with him because of his style, speed and accuracy.
He will box Abrahams head off, I realy beleive that, and Froch now has gota pick up his game and box better than he did against Dirrell or like I said was it just Dirrells style that made the fight like that. Judge after Abraham v Dirrell.
The article I responded too is pure rubbish and boxing is about the shots, any boxer is going to take shots, they train for it, some can take them, some cant. But no fighter takes then and looses ressistance thats a fact.
SCOTT GILFOID you are a wierdo, i knw you like froch deep down and knw that he beat dirrell fair and square
he took no punishment what so ever in the whole 12 rounds!!!!!!!!!!!!
Carl Froch is SH%@. Plain and simple!!!!
scott, as much as we all know how much you love Dirrell and stalk him, even if Froch loses to Kessler there is no way that you can put credit on Dirrell for it! lol.
I watched a re-run of the Froch-Direll fight the other night and apart from being awful I’d have to say that Direll possibly edged it – but that wasn’t punishment! Maybe tomorrow you could write another article about how good Direll is and how bad Froch is? I can’t wait…..
Didnt even read the article, Scott… you havent got a clue… Dirrell lost fair and square, true it wasnt that clear cut but that was because Dirrell kept running all night long, if he didnt perhaps he would have won or perhaps he would have got KO’d, we will never know.
Climb out of Dirrell’s arse and get over it Scott. You have got to be the least respected ”journalist” on this site.
after watching the fight it is plain to see that it was not a punishing fight. Sure he took 1 or 2 big shots, but that was it. Dirrell is a good puncher, but that night he was far to negative and ran around whilst not throwing enough. I like Dirrell, but he will never win anything if he does not commit himself in fights.
He didnt take any punishment exept to his knees and waist where dirrel kept grabbing him.
GATTI vs mayweather is punishment.
COTTO vs margarito is punishment.
Dirrel will be punished at the hands of King Arthur
anyone who saw the fights will know that he took FAR more punishment against taylor & pascal…
Also he was compairing the punishment from pascal vs Dirrell fights…… Pascal fight was a war!!
Didn’t you notice in the pascal fight Frochs got one of the best chins in boxing? No way will Kessler take him out early-
he didnt take punishment it wa just a very stylish opponent de la hoya against manny now thats punishment