Froch says Ward’s fight against Abraham will reveal more about him
March 22nd, 2011
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) will be watching the Super Six tournament May 14th fight between WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (23-0, 13 KO’s) and former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (32-2, 26 KO’s) intently to find out more about how good Ward is and to compare how he does against a common opponent, Abraham.
In an interview at livefight.com, Froch said “He [Abraham] only has to land that money shot once and it could turn the fight around. It will be interesting to see Ward against a common opponent. We both fought [Mikkel] Kessler under significantly different circumstances, but this one will hopefully reveal more about out standings in the tournament.”
Yes, there was a huge difference between Froch and Ward in how they did against a common opponent in Kessler. While Ward totally schooled Kessler in whipping him by a 11th round technical decision in November 2009, Froch struggled with Kessler and got beat last year by a 12 round unanimous decision in April. The boxing world saw that Ward was the superior fighter and now Froch wants to see it again with Ward vs. Abraham. The thing of it is Abraham was already badly schooled by Andre Dirrell the fight before Froch, so whatever Froch did with Abraham was more of a sloppy seconds type thing.
Dirrell basically softened up Abraham for Froch. Abraham has no chance of beating Ward, and I think Froch is going to be disappointed if he thinks the Ward-Abraham will be close or if there will be an upset in this fight. There won’t be. Ward is going to dominate Abraham and eliminate him from the Super Six tourney. Instead of worrying about how Ward does against Abraham, Froch needs to be worried about trying to get by his next opponent Glen Johnson on May 21st. I’m giving Johnson an excellent chance of beating Froch and sending him packing.
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SCOTT WHO IS ALWAYS WRONG WITH HIS FIGHT PREDICTIONS HAS LOST HIS BALLS BUY STATING HE GIVES JOHNSON AN EXCELLENT CHANCH OF BEATING FROCH . SCOTT WE NEED A FIRM PICK TO MAKE IT OFFICIAL. THE ONLY REASON MOST OF US READ YOUR TRITE IS TO MAKE MONEY BY BETTING AGAINST YOU.MAKE A PICK OR LOSE 96.5% OF YOUR READERS.
WHEN IT COMES TO SLOPPY SECONDS OR 3RDS OR 4THS OR 5THS OR 6THS ETC SCOTT IS THE EXPERT. THATS FOR SURE.
Only what we already know.And that is he is going to be hard to beat,especialy by the smaller AA.
If plodding Froch was able to “out-box” AA. Ward-AA won’t ever be interesting.
Schooled. Lantern. Ward. Dirrell. Froch. Highly skilled. Poor. There you go children, your very own “Write like this Nob here” kit. And a little aside – Ward DOES like to use the head, thats a given. And to use the head you have to get in close. And getting in range means Arthur might, just might, land the home-run shot. And like it or not, Abraham can still bang. Not saying he’ll win, but don’t rule Arthur out after one bad whupping. And that was off Froch, not off that Gebreselaisse chap he was in with the fight before
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More bollocks Gilf!
Ward and Dirrell are representatives or how far American promoters/bussiness will go to make a champion.
The true boxing fan will not be fooled!
A none brainwashed fan….
The Northfleet Mauler
Oh, will you stop with the “Dirrell layed down the blueprint” on how to beat Abraham talk. We saw the fight. Saw Dirrell put on his arse with a totally legitimate punch and then feined injury to avoid the rest of the bout, which was turning against him.
Froach didn’t allow Abraham to ever get near him, let alone get put on his arse. Dirrell, I am sorry to say,(because he does have talent ) just doesn’t have to mental strength or bravery to be a fighter. Froch, whilst not as skillful a boxer, is a true fighting champion. Also it is true that Ward did give Kessler a good hiding, I think it was largely due to the fact that he headbutted all night long, and wasn’t penalized for doing so. You talk about Froch roughing up Dirrell, but he’s got nothing on Ward. Partly why Froch was rough was because Dirrell is a coward and no matter how you try to re-write history, we all know the truth.
This is the first time Abraham is going to be hit to the body? are you even trying to be serious? Froch destroyed Abrahams body and Froch hits way harder than pitty pat Ward.
Ward does the most damage with his head, he needs to use the head as he doesn’t punch hard enough to do damage.
Nobody seems to realize that Abraham is going to be hit for sure. This is the first time he is going to get hit in the body.ward doesn’t look for knockouts you can tell the way he fights.he likes punishing his foes but if he looks to stop Arthur lookout.
The author needs to really pull his finger out if he wishes to encourage serious debate. The puppy dog eyes that followed Dirrel out of the tournament when he ran from a likely loss to Ward are enough to make you nauseous.
Like listening to a virgin pine for his first love, the endless diatribe about Dirrel neglects to acknowledge he humiliated himself in the Froch fight and became known as a coward, something that was reinforced when he avoided Ward. The author also neglects to acknowledge that Dirrel won the AA fight on a technicality and that the official results were read over the tannoy while he stood there crying.
Ward will probably be the first man to really cut AA, I can see an “accidental” clash of heads in this fight which Ward will not be penalised for because he’s Showtimes little lap dog.
If AA connects I think it will be all over, but Ward is busy enough to keep AA covered up and savvy enough to stay out of the way if he needs to.
Showtime will have a pro Ward ref in there and a bunch of lubed up judges, so the only thing Ward has to worry about in his home state is whether he gets tagged by that one lucky shot.
Cheered on by yet another home crowd, with judges and ref on board and facing a guy just coming of a mauling, Ward should walk away with this and have a nice little final 560 miles from his house in Vegas.
Dirrel didn’t actually lay down a blue print on Abraham, Froch certainly didn’t fight like Dirrel. Dirrels knockdowns were due to his lateral movement catching AA off balance and towards the end Dirrel was seriously gassing, he was setting himself up for 3 rounds of running after tiring around the 9th in front of his home crowd.
Froch used his reach and power combined with vicious combos to AA’s body to soften his man and punched so hard straight at AA’s high guard that he was hurting AA even in his shell defense.
froch has his first obstacle first and realy shoul not look ahead but observe the Abraham fight which I know he will,because he may be faceing him.But the road warrior is nothing to take for granted, he hasaged and should lose to Froch,it will not be easy.carl don,t look past Johnson or you may not have to worry.johnson is savy like Ward. And maybe as tough.Andre Ward is just a good fighter haveing one great fight against kessler,and he dominated Green.he will maybe have a tougher time with hard tossing AA.
wrong on all counts gilfoid… again
What froch is really saying is he hopes ward loses so he doesn’t have to face him.froch knows from the Taylor fight and the dirrell fight that his style is Taylor made for ward. He got lucky and won the fight with Taylor but he took a ass whipping for twelve rounds and didn’t even land a clean punch anyone could remember vs dirrell. He got hurt and wobbled in both fights.froch has to have a perfect night to win by a decent margin where as ward can have a off night and still win convincingly. They should not have let ward get this far because he is gaining a lot of experience in this tournament. He is the youngest fighter in the supersix and is maturing at the wrong time for Abraham and froch.styles make fights froch needs to understand that and will find himself on the other side of a old man ass whipping if he isn’t careful.
Oh, will you stop with the “Dirrell layed down the blueprint” on how to beat Abraham talk. We saw the fight. Saw Dirrell put on his arse with a totally legitimate punch and then feined injury to avoid the rest of the bout, which was turning against him.
Froach didn’t allow Abraham to ever get near him, let alone get put on his arse. Dirrell, I am sorry to say,(because he does have talent ) just doesn’t have to mental strength or bravery to be a fighter. Froch, whilst not as skillful a boxer, is a true fighting champion. Also it is true that Ward did give Kessler a good hiding, I think it was largely due to the fact that he headbutted all night long, and wasn’t penalized for doing so. You talk about Froch roughing up Dirrell, but he’s got nothing on Ward. Partly why Froch was rough was because Dirrell is a coward and no matter how you try to re-write history, we all know the truth.
If the right ref is in there. And he stops the headbutting and
clinching Abraham could catch him. Ward should not be allowed to hold as much as he usually gets away with. Ward is always in very ugly fights due to poor oficiating. This is boxing not
wwf.
I love this guy, Gilfoid. Genius!
Ward will be given every possible advantage in the Abraham fight, which is why it’s going to be Wards 4th fight in a row in his home state in his home country. All the waffle about lots of Armenians in Cali making it neutral is totally pathetic.
I expect a pro Ward referee and some of the most biased judging since Robin Reid fought Sven Ottke.
Ward and Dirrell will do nothing without controversay!
as bad was the officials in the Dirrell v Abraham fight, the low blows were discusting! Referee…”don’t worry about it!”
“Dirrell basically softened up Abraham for Froch.” Could it not be that after the Dirrell fight Abrahan was more determined?
You cant compare Ward vs Kessler and Froch vs Kessler..
1. The Venue, Ward had the hometown advantage with 20.000 fans cheering him up, Kessler had 11.000 loud screaming fans who badly wanted Kessler to win and keep him alive in the super six.
2. The Officials.. Alot of people say that the officials didnt have anything to with Wards win since he was dominating Kessler so badly. I dissagree, Kessler didnt come off strong in round 1, however he had a decent round 2, but then Ward started his holding fest, while head butting like a ram in the clinch while locking arms and leading with his head in his attacks, im not saying that Kessler had won on neutral ground, but the officials definitely ruined Kesslers chances of winning. In fact i think that this is the worst officialed fight since Ottke vs Reid
3. Kesslers corner wasnt ready for this at all, nor did they prepare Kessler for this fight. Okay i do not know what they did in Kesslers training camp, but they didnt import A SINGLE southpaw opponent for Kessler’s sparring, which was a huge mistake against a guy who likes to switch between southpaw and orthodox.. And then in the fight… Kessler corner didnt encourage him AT ALL! Richard Olsen [Kessler's FORMER head coach] was like ” Ohhhh Kessler you are taking a beating shouldnt i stop this? OHhh no Kessler dont you want me to stop this? Kessler what are we doing here anyway lets just go home, there is cold beer in the fridge” and then 8 rounds later “Ohhhhhh, btw you have to KO him to win now, Good luck”.. Then Richard was fired and Jimmy Montoya took over kessler’s training..
You always pick Froch’s opponents to beat him, because you don’t like him.
Somebody wants to make some money off of ward, but after seeing his insignificant-6 performances, the guy just isnt interesting to see fight. There is no doubt dirrell was sucken wards d, thats why he quit the tourney. Those two weasles played their cards all wrong by listening to the wrong people. They F’d themselves, I have no respect for them or their camps.
First, Johnson will have a tough time with Froch. Second, Ward will whip Abraham’s @ss.
If Ward ends up meeting Froch in the finals (the most likely scenario), then Ward will have a difficult time, but he’ll win the whole tournament and remain undefeated (I’ve been calling for a Ward victory since this tourney was announced…).
Of course your giving Johnson an excellent chance of beating Froch, you friggin hate english people