Froch wants Abraham fight to take place in Canada, Ireland or Nottingham, doesn’t care about money

By Boxing News - 06/12/2010 - Comments

Image: Froch wants Abraham fight to take place in Canada, Ireland or Nottingham, doesn’t care about moneyby Sean McDaniel: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) says he doesn’t care about money. He wants to be able to beat his next Super Six tournament opponent Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) and doesn’t trust having the fight take place in Germany where Froch feels he has little chance of winning because of the judges. There is also talk of Froch’s September 18th fight against Abraham being pushed back even further to October 2nd because of the inability of a neutral venue to be decided upon, according to an article at Thisisnottingham.co.uk.

Froch says “This fight is not about money. Money doesn’t matter at this stage of my career. It’s about winning my world title back, unifying the belts and cementing my legacy in the super middleweight division. And it’s not going to happen if I’m forced to fight in Germany. I’d have no chance of winning after what happened against Mikkel Kessler in Denmark [Froch, of course, is talking about his 12 round unanimous decision loss to Kessler on April 24th]. I’ve heard talk venues in Monaco, Germany, Hungary and France but they can forget them.”

Froch seems to be knocking down the venue choices offered up by Abraham’s promoter Sauerland Events as fast they can offer them up. This is really sad because this should be an easy thing. I’ve never seen anything like this before. Usually, there’s always an easy neutral place that can quickly be agreed upon between the two fighters, but not in this case, unfortunately. The sad thing is unless Froch and Abraham can come up with an agreement for a fight, Showtime will have to step in and make the decision for the two fighters in picking the location for the fight.

Froch seems jaded from his bad experience in his loss against Kessler and is looking to try and find the perfect spot, at least in his mind, where he feels he can get a fair decision. The thing of it is Froch thinks he won the Kessler fight. Few people agree with Froch about this, and it appears the judges got the decision dead on correct.

I don’t know how much fairer the judges could have gotten that that unless they put on blindfolds and picked Froch as the winner. Froch didn’t exactly sound confident moments after the Kessler fight. It was as if he knew he was going to lose the fight. Fighters that do that are usually ones that know they didn’t fight their best and were in danger of losing.

Froch didn’t look good in a lot of the rounds, getting staggered at one point and tiring out in the middle rounds. Froch even admits that his training was disrupted which caused him to have problems with energy. That should tell Froch something you would think.

But Froch still thinks he would have won the fight if it had taken place in Nottingham, where he already had beaten Andre Dirrell in the most questionable decision of the entire Super Six tournament. Who knows if Froch would have won there, but it would have likely left a bad taste in the mouth of a lot of boxing fans if Froch had won two consecutive questionable decisions while fighting at home in Nottingham.



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