Carl Froch threatening to pull out of Super Six tournament – News
April 25th, 2010
Photo: Tom Casino/Showtime – By Sean McDaniel: After losing for the first time in his career in a 12 round unanimous decision loss to Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s) last night in Herning, Denmark, former World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) is reportedly threatening to pull out of the Super Six tournament if his next fight against Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) doesn’t take place in Nottingham, England, according to news from the Guardian. Apparently, there is talk of Froch’s next fight, a stage 3 Super Six tourney bout, taking place in Abraham’s home city of Berlin, Germany.
One would hope that Froch wouldn’t pull out of the tournament after he finds out about there not being a written agreement. After all, if Froch leaves the tournament now, he won’t get a chance to prove himself against the best fighters in the tourney and will have to settle for facing other, arguably lesser fighters in the super middleweight division. Beyond the Super Six tournament fighters, only Lucian Bute has the equivalent talent in the division.
Froch fought hard last night in battling Kessler for 12 grueling rounds, only to lose by a 12 round decision. The fight could have gone either way, and it was difficult to pick the ultimate winner in the fight. I thought the fight was a draw, but many other boxing fans and experts felt that Froch had done enough to get the win. The problem for Froch is that he let Kessler be the aggressor for most of the fight and it didn’t look good with Kessler constantly taking the fight to Froch. In rounds seven through nine, Froch looked tired and seemed to be pushing his punches. However, in the championship rounds, Froch stormed back and looked really good in rounds 10 through 12, appearing to win all of them with his bigger shots and cleaner landing blows.
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forget the tournament,,,ward against bute, we willl then know who the best is…the rest of too many flaws….
Shadow: You stole my line. Let cry baby Froch pull out. I’d love to see Lucien Bute fight Abraham, Ward, Kessler, and Dirrell. That would be great. Bute should have been placed in the tournament in the first place.
Some guys just can’t take a loss. No need to threaten leaving. If you don’t want to fight real fighters you can join Taylor and b out of the tournament and we’ll be happy to watch Lucian Bute take your place.
Froch is hilarious, fighters have to keep in mind judges normally know how you fight and in this instance Froch is normally the guy making his opponent back up, Kessler was the aggressor all nite this goes against Froch if the round is even on offensive output. A fighter seldom is going to get the decision if he’s going backwards all fight long. Froch is delusional as well because the same thing happened to Andre Dirrel when they fought in England. But as for the scoring that 117-111 score was farfetched
i thought kessler won the fight. but i also think the judges should watch the fight without sound, because i think they are greatly influenced by the crowd. and when there in a fighters home town the crowd yells like it was a knockout blow when it just glanced the other fighter, and if the judge doesnt have the right angle they might just score the punch. boxing does need to do something different there was no way that fight was 117 to 111. maybe kessler by 1 or 2 rounds because of the early rouunds.
I always wonder why we fight fans don’t yell and scream about bad decicions we seem to take and like it what a shame . Fighting is very tough and all fighters deserve to Win if they have won. The judges should never favor anyone, and we fight fans should demand that they are fair and unbiased.Period
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Couldnt have said it better myself mate.
Good perception on what hes been saying recetly asweel, plus i also respect Abraham as everything germane to his aura is frightening.
Im scared of Abraham, and i dont even have to fight him!!
Froch knows his limitations, also, in his post fight interview last night he was talking about how the competition is getting really interesting now and how he will quote “definately be back”..why the sudden change of heart?
If you want your title back, get in and fight!
If he quits he will lose so many fans.
Frock pull Ur skirt up an go fight.No one cares get back in the damn ring an rumble an show greatness stop being s boy an crying they rob direlll when he whip Ur ass now suck it up intake the fight to Arthur Abraham an become great@@!
Why is there so much hate for froch sure he doesn’t have the best defense but why does everybody hate him you need to give him respect for his good performances for gods sake last night could have gone either way, so u Ah’s who think it’s big and manly to come on here and BS about a fighter that has beaten some quality apponents u ain’t real boxing fans u shud respect anyone who has the balls the lace em up and get in the ring with the whole of the world watching, all u guys on here wouldn’t have the Guts so why diss froch.
froch iam glad joe calzghe never had a fight with u coz it would have been murder , u lost to kessler fair just except it
THIS IS A DISTRESS SIGNAL.
It’s ironic that Froch was bragging about how he beat (an over the hill) Jermain Taylor in Taylor’s BACK YARD… yet now he’s crying like a girl about Kessler’s & Abraham’s ‘BACK YARDS’.
To be brutally honest, I think the origins of his reluctance is the prospect of fighting THE SCARIEST MAN IN BOXING – Arthur Abraham. I respect Abraham, but he scares the sh*t out of me, and honestly looks like something out of “The Munsters” or “The Adams Family”. He’s not super-fast, yet there is an evil lurking in his aura & stare which seems to infect his opponents’ nervous system to a degree.
Look between the lines.. finally Froch is about to meet someone who can take shots all night (.. as he did against Edison Miranda in their first encounter) and give back BRUTALLY with punches that feel like chunks of metal ! Froch brags about his ‘granite’ jaw, however it’s possible that his ability to take punishment may have taken its toll against Kessler (… who’s not exactly a KO specialist).
So Mr Froch.. after complaining about Dirrell ‘running’.. why the reluctance in light of your hype to date ? What are you scared of Froch ? What happened to all that talk of ‘a ring is a ring’, etc. ? If referees are biased, then KO your opponent like you keep promising !
HE SHOULD LEAVE, BUTE AND BIKO ARE BETTER THAN HIM AND THEY ARE NOT THERE. THIS GUY ALWAYS WAS A BIG MOUTH FRAUD. ALL OF THESE BRITISH FIGHTERS CAN PICK AN EXCUSE OUT OF THE BAG WHEN THEY LOOSE, AND THAT IS AFTER BRAGGING BEFORE THE EVENT. REMEMBER HATTON TELLING PEOPLE THEY CAN BET THEIR HOUSES ON HIM, WHEN HE GOT KNOCKED OUT IT WAS THE TRAINER´S FAULT.
What happened to the English fans, everybody bail on Froch after 1 loss? It´s not the end of the world.
It´s one loss and Froch needs to get his $hit together, forget about all the B.S and prepare for the next fight. It amazes me how ridiculous boxing has gotten with the constant demands of: I won´t fight you there but here, change the ring size, change the glove size, change the ref, take this test, take that test, pay for this belt blah blah blah. I chalk it up to the business aspect but man I wish these guys could man up, put the gloves on and go at it.
“Hopefully, Froch had that agreement in writing, because if it was a verbal agreement than it might not matter.”
What?????????????????????!
A verbal agreement is the same than a written one!
Do u know the laws?
OMG!
Abraham should just agree. If he lands his punches, the judges are of no concern anyways, and if he doesn’t, he can’t win rounds at home either. Either he finds Froch and KOs him, or Froch outlands him and wins.
Froch is a stupid puy.. knew he was a cp fighter.
Dirrell should get a rematch and spank his as
Froch is a crybaby
Froch is a py… worst fighter ever lol
Froch is a fing crybaby
froch knows lose against abraham and he finished
still waiting for carl to blame volcano for losing fight he got to bring it up soon
hard life is boxing,when you got to fight away from home.but pick yourself up brush yourself down and get on with it….or quit the sport.end of
absolute joke if carl really thinks he would have won that fight if it was nottingham he needs to sit down with someone who knows about boxing and watch the fight, what you got to remember carl your not a big name outside the uk you never gonna smash box office records or any fighting records come to think about it so for the time being be a good boy and fight wherever your paid to fight or do us all a favour and pick another career.
Froch has allways said he will fight anybody anywhere.I think carl realises that he will lose to abraham.
if froch had been more aggressive he wouldnt have lost the belt,,on his back foot all night!!! c.mon he couldnt have believed he was gonna get a desicion when he fighting in kessler backyard,,,,it was never gonna happen,,,as for the ref scorecards what the hell was one thinking,,was he watching the same fight,,,it was very close,but kessler pipped it because he was the one coming forward
froch once again u have proven urself to be a fraud… wotever happened to u saying u going into ur opponent back yard and beating em … well tell u wot with ur defense abraham wont need the judges
carl………you could always fight a life size model of joe calzaghe…..but then you would probably still lose….go stack some shelves
carl…..climb into your pram, but your dummy back in and shhhhhhhhhhhhh!
never liked froch, he’s always come across as im better than anybody, well you found last night that your wrong, your not the best and with threatening to quit you have no heart…..you lost, get over it and grow up otherwise go stack shelves at tesco, if you quit boxing you will have no income so stack them shelves to get a few pennies in….every little helps!
they should all have had to fight in the same venuemon different dates, some place like vegas or new york. then there would be no whingeing from people.
come on froch just wen i wa startin to like u dont turn into a sore loser buddy thats not english at all so you lost so wot its not the end o the world man do wot we brits do best wot were known 4 heart determination guts power glory im proud to be british dont make me feel otherwise next time out hammer abrahams not easy i know leave it all in the ring like benn eubank collins watson and even bruno did thats wot were all bout thats wot the english public love theres only you can put this right matey
trueboxingfannownumba1 are you on drugs get off this site
leaving cos u lost is ir carl hahaahhaahaha
i thought kessler won the fight,he looked busier+ was always on the front foot,froch drops his gloves way 2much 4my liking.good fight though fair play!!
The sign of a true warrior…
Im sat here thinking light heavy jean pascal wants a rematch i might just take it.
Ive just started 2 like u froch but dont turn into a sore lose buddy imagin if all footi sides said im only playin at home r any sport 4 that matter do wot us english do best dust urself of get up and fight like ur life depends on it come on the country behind u man 1 loss is nowt
In other words all fighters have a fight at home;away and neutral venues. waheed who could take his place;lucien bute has alresdy said he doesnt want to enter and below these 7 boxers they are 2nd tier .
To much politics in boxing. The fight was very close and forgive me if I am wrong…..but aren’t you suppose rip the belt from the champ, Kessler certainly didn’t rip the belt from Froch and the fight could have gone to either man.
i heard through various sources that the fight had already been negotiated for england. Its a bit extreme wanting to pull out alltogether ,;if by some chance they decide not to opt for england then why not a neutral country like america or canada. this would be completely fair . Abrahams fought in germany and u.s.a and alike froch has been home and away so why not.
Froch lost fair and square. He now knows how Andre Dirrell feels about losing that gift-decision in England, but in Dirrell’s case, he threw more and landed more against Froch. Froch even stated last night that he thought he would have gotten the decision if he was at home. If From quits the tournament because he can’t fight at home, he’ll lose even more respect.