Froch says he has a bad chest cold, along with his back problem

By Scott Gilfoid: In his latest column at thisisnottingham.co.uk, former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) revealed that he’s come down with a bad chest cold, along his back problem he’s been having for the past couple of weeks. With all the ailments that Froch is suffering all of a sudden, you have to wonder if these are going to be pulled out of his hat should he get spanked Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) in their stage 3 Super Six tournament fight on November 27th, in Helsinki, Finland. Froch sure has enough time for his cold and back problem to get better. I don’t know what to think if they’re still their plaguing him in some shape or form two months from now. But I like how he mentions them in his article.

As far as the rest of his column goes, Froch did some bellyaching about losing money on purchasing tickets for his family to travel to see him in Monaco. It looks like they wouldn’t let Froch get a refund. I’ve had the same thing happen to me, and I don’t understand how the airlines can do that. Other than that, it was mostly boring stuff with Froch crowing about some obscure gym never heard of saying that Froch is in “Fantastic physical condition” despite his back problem. How in the world can Froch be in fantastic physical condition when he’s complaining about a cold and a back injury?

The rest of the article was Froch reliving his drama with Abraham about him thinking Froch had lost it mentally over his loss to Mikkel Kessler in April. Froch then felt the need to remind Abraham that he had been beaten by Andre Dirrell, a fighter that Froch beat previously in Nottingham, England. Froch went on to brag about having fought Kessler “in front of 12,000 crazy Vikings in Kessler’s back yard.” Froch left out the fact that he lost that fight in front of those 12,000 crazy Vikings. Froch mentions having beaten Jermain Taylor on the road, but fails to mention that the fight wasn’t in Taylor’s home state of Arkansas. It took place in Connecticut, where there was only a small crowd with very few Taylor fans.

Froch might as well have fought in an isolated room, because that’s hardly fighting on the road. The rest of the article was just blather about Ricky Hatton and other stuff that’s not worth mentioning. I would have liked to have heard about how Froch was going to take Abraham’s head off. That would have made the column worth reading. Froch needs to put on his game face and start opening his yap more.

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