Froch wants to fight Abraham in the United States – News
May 24th, 2010
By William Mackay: Former World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) wants no part of fighting former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s), according to Badlefthook.com. Froch, 32, also doesn’t want to fight in Sweden, a neutral country that was offered up to him as an alternative to Germany. But where Froch does want to fight is in the United States, where Froch has fought twice before during his career. That’s all well and good that Froch wants to fight in the U.S., but it’s not exactly practical because a fight between him and Abraham wouldn’t likely draw flies unless it was heavily promoted and place in a hotbed of boxing, like Las Vegas, Nevada.
But the fight didn’t have a huge audience, and it’s highly unlikely that fight between Froch and Abraham, both largely unknown by the casual boxing fans in the U.S., would draw enough fans for it to sellout if it takes place in the U.S. Froch might want to talk to Abraham and his promoters about flipping a coin to decide on Germany or England. Since Froch is not happy with things, maybe he’d feel better if it came down to chance rather than someone telling him what to do. Realistically, there’s a good chance that this fight won’t go to the cards anyway, because Abraham punches like an ox and will have a better than average chance of knocking Froch out no matter where the fight takes place.
Froch likes to fight with his hands down by his sides. The problem is he doesn’t have the required reflexes to lean away from incoming shots and often gets hit hard without any chance to block the shots. This is bad news for a fight against Abraham because he punches so hard.
Froch lost his last fight of the Super Six tournament to Mikkel Kessler by a 12 round decision last month on April 24th. Froch feels he won the fight, and is doing his utmost to ensure that his next fight is either at home, again, or completely out of Europe. If the fight takes place in the United States, you would have to think that it would benefit Froch more than it would Abraham. Froch has a large following in the U.S. because his slugging style is popular here and he built up a following with his win over Jermain Taylor.
Abraham has fought once in the U.S., losing o Andre Dirrell by a disqualification in their stage 2 Super Six fight in April. Abraham didn’t look good at all in the fight, not throwing enough punches and getting completely outclassed until the 11th when Abraham hit Dirrell in the head after he slipped on the canvas. The fight was disqualified and it is something that did little in building a fan base for Abraham.
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put it in madison square garden
Froch wants a lot of things. He’s a real primadona. Wha, wha, wha!
sounds fair to me.
this pr.ck was crying that his last fight should have taken place in the uk and now he wants to go to the US come on. he is a joke cant wait to see him lose again.
yes .. i am very surprised all of these fights are not fought in neutral countries !!
Froch Vs Dirrel – close with carl catching it (home crownd influence)
Ward Vs Kessler – unanimous – but ref had bad day catching headbutts and low blows (different venue/ref .. it cud hav been closer but ward probly 2 win)
Abraham Vs Taylor – awesome fight – KO no matter were the fight was
Froch Vs Kessler – again close (Froch win in england/kessler in Denmark)(2 much home crowd influence .. i actually had it a draw)
Dirrel Vs Abraham – weirdest fight ever .. ref made it dirrels fight … literally ( both bad sportsmen, abraham hittin a man wen down, dirrel “slips” weneva under pressure)
My predictions – Froch Vs Abraham (in germany)- froch wins the opening 4 rounds as AA always starts slow, AA comes to life making the rounds closer therefore taking all 8 remainding rounds. froch wins possibly by close decision in UK, so it has to happen in USA
Ward Vs Dirrel + Ward Vs Green – i have not saw much of green so hav no idea wot he is about, dirrel Vs Ward will be boring probly a decision for Ward.
As Ward has all fights at home i suspect this is a fix to actaully get a undisputed american champion (in the higher weights) without having to go to europe were USA Vs EU stats r not 2 gud lol
Froch is so concerned about it going to points that its worrying…this fight WILL NOT go to the cards, so it can take place in Nottingham, Berlin, Las Vegas or Tokyo with it making no difference, the judges won’t get a chance to be biased. If Froch fights smart (unlikely) and keeps his guard up while attacking the lumbering AA in the first seven rounds when AA usually does nothing, then he has a real chance of knocking him out. If Froch does his usual arms down low, guard with his chin (likely) style, then he may well get knocked out…either way it aint going to the cards.
SME is soooo right about travelling English fans… hell… they’d travel to the fight if the stadium was on the edge of a volcano
Let’s be honest here.. froch is scared ! No doubt about it !
When Barrera fought Naseem Hamed, Barerra was immense in disciplining himself from fighting his usual warrior style – which would have suited Naz to the bone.
froch on the other hand does not even have the skills of the old Barerra’s shadow, and I don’t think he has a Plan B in his fight game.. hence all he knows is slugging.. and that to Abraham will be like candy from a ‘budgie’ !!
Froch needs to grow-up! Put up or shut up Froch…His baby-like tantrums are getting on my nerves!!!
What problem does Froch have with the fight being located in Berlin ? The only thing that matters is which JUDGES are appointed. That is the crucial point, and they just have to find 3 judges and a ref who are known for their impartiality and fair decisions in the past. It shouldn’t be impossible to come up with 3 judges who have scored against the local hero in a fight he was losing, for example the guy who had Kentikian losing her last fight (like she did). Just keep judges the f*ck out who scored 120:108 for the local fighter, like in Khan vs. Kotelnik.
Not exactly rocket science. Put half of the tickets out to England since they love traveling, and he easily has half of the hall filled with his own fans.
ye but there on about the super 6 its once each people can never say u dotn get a fair shake in u.k the dirrel fight was a toughy to score most rounds they was no action so could have gone either way they was wot one point in the fight realy not liek froch kessler even if u think kessler won the score cards wouldnt have been that dogy specialy wen the german press and u.k press had froch up n the denmark had kessler by 2 wich is realistic i think froch might get nocked out abraham is a big puncher just waited to long on the acting dirrel
sorry dude, abraham was fighting in the USA before in his 2. fight with miranda.
i really hope abraham will KO froch, cause froch is such a yallin` pu**y!
Abraham has been fighting for two times in the States,once against Miranda,and once against Direl!