Froch thinks he would beat Chad Dawson and Pascal
August 17th, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) wasn’t impressed with two-time light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson’s performance against WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal last Saturday night in Montreal, Canada. Froch, 33, thinks he would beat Dawson if they were to fight, and he also thinks all of the other Super Six tournament fighters would beat him as well. In an interview at Livefight.com, Froch says “He [Dawson] says he can make 168 lbs still but after seeing his strength and his fitness at 175 lbs being a bit questionable, I think that would be a bad move to head down as I reckon any one of the Super Six would have his number.”
At the time of the stoppage, Dawson had come alive and had Pascal hurt from a couple of exchanges. Dawson looked terrible in the first 10 rounds, as he just wouldn’t exchange for more than a punch or two. He wanted to have a boxing fight, but he needed to jump on Pascal and just let his hands go. I see this as a training issue. Dawson needs to either get a new trainer that can teach him to throw sustained combinations or else his current trainer needs to teach him these things if possible. If not, Froch is probably right about all of the Super Six tourney fighters beating Dawson.
Froch’s standing is a little higher now that Pascal beat Dawson, since Froch defeated a younger Pascal by a 12 round decision two years ago in 2008. It was a good win, but Pascal has improved immensely since then and I don’t see Froch beating him now, not with the kind of hit and run style that Pascal uses now. His style is very hard to beat unless you can jump on him and try and bury him with shots. That’s not easy because he moves well and tends to grab his opponents in a clinch to shut them down. Once separated, he’s able to land fast punches on the outside and move around.
Froch has this to say about Pascal: “Me and him have become like Rocky and Apollo. We’re friendly outside the ring and I wished him all the best before his fight. But, yeah, a rematch is something I would honour the man. Whether we can do a catch weight for the title fight – it’s something I would consider after the Super Six tournament has concluded.” Froch says he would beat Pascal in their rematch. I have my doubts about that. I don’t really see the attraction of this fight for Pascal, because once Froch is eliminated by Arthur Abraham in their Super Six tourney fight on October 2nd, Froch won’t be an appealing opponent for Pascal.
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@wiztard williams-we know who you are tard.hes right add something new like.pascal better get a big pay day in his next fight because then he get dawson who will put him away.
Froch already beat Pascal.But Chad learned his lesson and will be had very hard to beat again.
@WIZZKID WILLIAMS-You call you self wizzkid.Thats because you wizz in your own mouth.You scour the posts to find somethie to critize because you have nothing to add.Offer one new original thought other then unfounded criticism .Just watch the post fight videos on y tube. PEA BRAIN
froch’s great to watch do’nt know why people hate him. Like what is he going to say that he’s not the best boxer in the super 6 what’s the point in entering then. He’s just puting bums in the the sits cause aa aint publicising the fight, hav’nt heard a word out of him actually and the dust up he had with pascal was brillant luv to 2 see them go again.
What i like about froch is he more often than not comes for a genuine fight. gotta like that if your a fight fan or fighter.
Excellent logic there. You think both Dawson and Pascal would beat froch, despite the fact that he already beat pascal and pascal gave dawson something of a hiding for the majority of their fight. Superior hand speed and boxing skills? yea thats what they said about dirrell too. He’ll beat Abraham as well. If Dirrell can hurt Abraham then Froch is more than capable of knocking him out, and Abraham is never going to win a points decision against, well, anyone. Froch has one of the best chins in the division and your betting on him getting knocked out? Wake up.
@ Tom Britt
Pascal didn’t have to drop a lot of weight to fight Froch… Where did you get that garbage?!? Hence him moving UP in weight to challenge for the WBC light heavy title!! Stop posting comments for the sake of it you fool!!
FROCH IS TO MUCH. Pascal had to drop a lot of weight to fight Froch.For Froch to fight Pascal or Chad :Froch woud have to put weight on.That makes it a whole new ball game.Froch could beat the K BROTHERS both in the same night in the same ring:both at once.No kidding .Just ask him he’ll tell you.Froch stick to AA for now he might be able to beat them both also.
froch keeps his hands quite low, but knowing AA has such power he’d be stupid to not keep his guard up a bit more. I think he’ll push the fight pretty much how most fighters against AA do, and I also think he’ll show more movement in this fight to try and follow up on the method Dirrell used. Froch has too much for AA to deal with.
Pascal is not the same at 175, he is comfortable making the weight and has more stamina. Apart of this, he has a better leg work now, something he laked desperately during most of his carreer.
At 168, maybe Froch beats Pascal again, but at 175 I doubt that he could.
He’s already beat Pascal and Dawson is a hype job bum so yeah, Froch is right.
Well, he’s already beaten Pascal…and Pascal beat Dawson.
Logic suggests he beats both. Furthermore, logic suggests you stop writing. You’re terrible. Stop. Please.
Froch is very much underrated by writers and fans alike, he is not just a slugger. He has an awkward style and finds his range very quickly in fights. Andre Dirrell made Abraham look slow but Dirrell found Froch to be a puzzle. Pascal and Kessler had to take one to give one whereas Dirrell was not prepared to do that.
I rate Froch highly. I am not going to get carried away and say he is the best because, quite frankly, he isn’t. What he does though is he gives you a good fight. The Kessler and Pascal fights where both contenders for fight of the year. I’ve a feeling the Abraham fight is going to be a contender also.
But of course.,You better focus on your task at hand right now Mr.Froch,You may admit your powerfull over AA,or powerless.
Dude….Froch thinks he can beat everyone.
I have a feelin Froch would struggle to retain his clubbing power at the next weight up, its just a hunch.
And he needs that cuz everything he does is based on him hurting his opponants, he certinaly dont outbox them.
I saw the title and I knew right away it was from Gilfoil the Loser. lol
i agree with most of the article but the only fighter in the super six that dawson would be able to beat is green and as much as i hate to say it probably froch but having said that coming down in weight to fight might even things up for froch a bit its funny but a week ago a lot of people would have said this dawson bloke would have beat them all
Scott honey,can you please bring me home,a slice of humble pie-a bag of twinkys and some pop-corn!”oh.almost forgot dont forget the lube!”xxxxx
froch would beat dawson. simple. die scott.
well…he CAN beat pascal cos he did. & pascal well beat dawson…so they’re all kinda on a similar level i guess. i don’t get the froch hate tbh. exciting fighter…takes on tough challenges (pascal, taylor, dirrell, kessler, aa…who in world boxing is on a tougher run than that?)…so what’s the problem?
FROCH HASN’T EVEN REALLY BEAT ANYONE IN THE TOURNAMENT, AND HE’S TALKING ABOUT WHO HE COULD BEAT AT A HIGHER WEIGHT?, WHAT A TOSSER….
I think Chad had an off night. Plus, styles make fights. Just because Froch beat a fighter that technically beat dawson doesn’t automatically mean Froch beats Dawson. Triangle theories don’t work in boxing. It’s been proven time and time again.
I saw the Froch/Pascal fight and it wasn’t even close. Froch won the fight pretty easily. I don’t really see any improvement in Pascal either he’s pretty much the same fighter now that he was when Froch beat him. If they fought again i think exactly the same thing would happen. Froch would destroy Dawson aswell i think. He’s just another over hyped average american fighter billed as the next best thing that has been exposed by a another average fighter.
Froch should be worried about AA. Froch has already stated if he loses to AA he will retire.
Froch will never be knighted with that attitude.
Dawson is good but he was over rated. Your right AP he could have done things differently and maybe had greater success but i see that in so many fights when a boxer should have done something earlier. Now he’s found his level, near the top but not the best. I think there’s quite a few out there that could beat him (including 168lb div) – he’s not ready yet don’t get me wrong but i really like the look of that cleverly dude.
I think Dawson would have had more success early if he would have gone underneath Pascal as he did in Round 11 with that short left uppercut, if he had done that earlier Pascal would have had more trouble coming inside.