Froch vs. Kessler: Will Carl keep it clean against Mikkel?
March 28th, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: We’ve seen what happens when a fighter gets a little too over anxious and starts fouling this past weekend when Arthur Abraham was disqualified in the 11th round for striking Andre Dirrell after he had slipped on the canvas. On April 24th, World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) will be putting his unbeaten record on the line against former WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (42-2, 32 KO’s) in Herning, Denmark.
However, when things began to get out of hand as Dirrell was dominating Froch in the first rounds, Froch turned into Mr. Hyde in the 5th round and body slammed Dirrell during the round. The rest of the fight saw Froch using an assortment of fouls, such as rabbit punches, holding and hitting and pushing down on Dirrell’s head. Oddly enough, all of this was ignored by the referee and the one who ended up being penalized was Dirrell.
It’s never easy to fight in another opponents home city, but Dirrell really had things stacked against him in fighting Froch in Nottingham. We have to hope that Froch got all his fouling out of his system in that fight, because if Froch fights like that against Kessler, I doubt that those things will fly in Denmark. I can see Froch getting penalized until he starts keeping it clean.
Hopefully, Froch doesn’t go into the Kessler fight thinking he can rough the guy up to get an edge. If things go badly for Froch, which could very well happen because of the incredible talent of Kessler, I’d hate to see Froch fouling left and right out of frustration. We just got a good learning tool in watching Abraham go spastic against Dirrell and getting disqualified.
We don’t need to get another example of that with Froch being disqualified for body slamming, holding and hitting or throwing rabbit punches. If he’s not good enough to beat Kessler fighting cleanly, then so be it. Froch will just have to lose the fight. That’ the way things go. I already think Froch should have lost the fight with Dirrell. Froch won it, but he needs to better against Kessler because I think he’s going to get spanked if he looks like he did against Dirrell.
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Froch would fit nicely into a R Marcano fight LOL.. but i do admire his natural fighting mentality and grit. Hope that answers your question.
chh………….get off gilfoids nuts
Prob not but thats what we love about froch
clarification….Froch being ko’d by Abraham
I’m not a fan of Froch. Only seen 3 of his fights and he fought rough-house in all 3. I see Kessler taking his title and being knocked out if/when he and Abraham meet. Not sure how Greene or Ward would do against him, but I suspect they’d be very good fights. Had Dirrell fought him like he fought Abraham, he’d have taken the title away. As it stands, I don’t think he (Dirrell) did enough to win and take away a title.
dirrell is the dirty fighter!! i cant beleive how delusional u yanks are in the abraham fight dirrell was jumpin on the floor everytime he was in trouble which doesnt surprise me why abraham did that foul even though i beleive that was unsmortman like. dirrell was also holding incessantly in the froch fight which doesnt durpsrise me why froch chucked dirrell on the floor!! for gods sake stop posting biased articles!!!
it wasn’t a punch that did for dirrell , it was a bit of a tch slap!it wouldn’t have knocked the pis off a thistle yet dirrell cried then slept like a baby. froch and kessler will have a fight, neither will run, neither will dive on the canvass and search for an oscar at the 1st sign of adversity.kessler has the hometown advantage but its only an hour away from nottingham by plane.expect froch to be relaxed and kessler a little tense,eager to prove he’s not shot.froch to win by stoppage in later rounds kessler to tire after a sterling early effort.
Yes, PPLZ, I agree with much of what you say about Froch.
I am a brit and I can’t stand the guy, putting it mildly … He has no class and is geniunely very dislikeable ! However, all of this said, you don’t have to be a UN Rep to beat peoples faces in in the ring, do you ?!! Froch is cumbersome, often predicatable and pretty creude as a boxer … so, it is amazing he is where here is. Ah, hang on a mo, we are overlooking the fact that the guy is as strong as a horse at the weight and tends to beak his opponents down over the distance …. whether we like it, or not. I think he will come up short against a Ward or Green, but I relish the thought of him with Abraham – he will beat the nuts out of Abraham.
I don’t see how you Brits are surprised that people dislike Carl Froch. I bet some of you guys don’t even really like him that much. He’s slow, has the strangest footwork Ive ever seen and he throws pinches from the hip while lacking handspeed and technique. He is the only trash talking fighter that I know of that doesn’t believe that he is actually talking trash. Which is highlighted by the fact that he continues to talk trash after the fight has already occurred. And the guy is undefeated so to continue to trash fighters that you’ve defeated is petty and pointless but that doesn’t stop old Frochy boy. And his mother and girlfriend are about as obnoxious as they come. At least when Mayweather talks trash he reserves it for the promotion of the fight. Carl Froch us actually just being his true self when he talks trash. And David Haye over states his own prowess so shamelessly and disproportionately to his actual achievements in the ring that you can’t expect people to like him. He plays the role of the heel intentionally.
AA is a great fighter and a very tough guy
ashishwarrior you are having an absolute laugh if you think froch could show calzaghe how to fight, there’s not a supermiddle who would that i have seen in the last 45 years i have been avidly watching this great sport, young roy jones v calzaghe of 05 would have been some fight,calzaghe was so unorthodox and such a talent, calzaghe has admited to cocaine use after his boxing career finished due to inactivity. nobody’s perfect but dont comment on what you dont understand, joe is a great, froch is a brawler and is game but is very limited. eubank gave joe his toughest fight because joe had never been past 6 rounds before fighting him, and eubank would absolutley have schooled froch big time.
talk about being clean wat about ward kessler fight wen ward was butting all night. the fact of matter is that wat every froch does wont be good enough for u. u fat tw.t
fu sake scott. dirrell aint that good. he fouls as well he was hitting AA low all night n the ref said nowt.
Dirrell is everything a boxer should not be, pretending to slip against froch to buy more time, then when he was winning he takes the easy route, cos he knew he was going to get KO’d, he could have held on.
I don’t mind so much about the fouling I just don’t want to see a fighter fake a ko
Oh dear … not again ?
Look, Froch is actually one of the cleaner fighters I have watched down the years … Yes, I do agree that he got oddly nasy with Dirrell, which was somehwta out of character for the guy. However, just feel free to review many of Carl’s previous fights and you will hardly see a foul !
So, let’s keep it real, Scottyboy, please …
I do not think that Kessler is that skilled at all ? Infact, he has a very typical European, upright style which is made for Froach’s right hand – you will see this to when they meet in the ring. I think Kessler is a good fighter, but not exceptional in anyway. This said, I do not think Carl is exceptuional either, barr his awesome natural strength at the weight – and this will prove to be the difference between the two on the night, without a doubt ! I see Kessler doing ok at times, but Carl’s strength becoming the decisive factor. A stoppage may be on the cards, although it won’t be pretty, as Carl is not a skillful fighter, more of a headstrong bull who wears his opponents down. I’d think the fight of the tourn will be Froch v Abraham – I see Abraham getting Ko’d.
ward is fav to win the overall, though ( Green might also make a late impact ).
nice to see calzaghe addmiting he uses cocaine i knew it heard this years back and this unprofessinal user thinks he would beat froch lofl HEY JOE JUST SAY NO LOL froch could teach you how to fight then how to stay drug free
Theres a big difference between rough house tactics and hitting somebody in the head when hes down.
Froch is far from clean in his work but its all part of the game, theres different ways of doing what you do in all sports. If he does something really naughty he will be punished just as Abrhams was at the weekend.
I think Kesslers seen it all before and will be expecting a bit of the rough stuff but hes got the experience to deal with it, something Dirrell didnt have against Froch, but it was some much needed experience for Dirrell.
One things for sure though, IF Froch does something similar agasint Kessler i dont think the Dane will be breaking out his Hollywood actors handbook after it like Dirrell did.
Froch only threw Dirrell to the floor because he kept hugging him – it was his way of saying “Get off me you wierdo”.
Dirrell seemed to have learnt an awful lot from that fight and showed we knew he could do against Abraham. He was much more focused and disciplined, showing his movement and skills throughout the fight. Even though Abraham was getting a lot closer to him in the final rounds, even scoring a knock down in the 10th, Abraham completely wasted any chance he had by fouling.
I think Froch will find Kessler a much easier target then Taylor or the elusive Dirrell and we will see him land a lot more. I think Kessler is made for Froch and Froch will beat him a lot easier then most think. I am glad Dirrell beat Abraham as it makes for a very interesting 3rd round… but Froch needs to beat Kessler as Abraham could give him problems.
Dirrells style is the only one that could beat Abraham in my opinion, I think Froch will struggle against him in the final round.
I think we will see what is left in the Kessler tank, in my opinion Kessler is clearly the superior boxer but if his legs give out i can see Froch winning by TKO.
It ain’t a tickling contest.
lol, wow some AA lovers still just can’t believe their idol got schooled
Cheer up guys, Europe has some good fighters, AA just ain’t one of them! Classless, and definitely a cheater, he proved that beyond any shadow of a doubt!
Froch fought the first four rounds clean against Dirrell? I think Gilfoid needs to watch the second round of that fight again. The ref is breaking them apart and Froch throws a shot over the ref’s shoulder and tags the defenseless Dirrell! In the second round! Froch will foul often against Kessler unless he can land a lucky punch and take Kessler out. If not Kessler will just toy around with Froch and Froch will again land more fouls than legal blows.
Super Six had stirred up some controversy since it started, Froch beating the more talented Dirrel, Ward beating super six fave Kessler and now Abraham’s illegal punch handing him first loss; Super six tournaments are the future of boxing. Would love a super six for the light welterweights. Imagine it now Maidana, Khan, Bradley, Alexander, Pacquiao and Mayweather. Carl Froch is going to be tested here and it will be interesting to see how he copes later on, then again I wouldn’t be surprised if Kessler got into a brawl later on he hasn’t been the same since his loss to Calzaghe.
@STU…..I agree…..Froch and Ward are gonna be like Vultures now….can’t blame them either.
no…he won’t…particularly if it isn’t going his way. it’s not a criticism. there isn’t a great fighter ever who didn’t break out the dirty boxing now & again. you do whatever it takes to win. thats how it is. one of the dirtiest fighters i ever saw was ali.