Froch-Johnson: The winner of the fight will be Ward’s next victim
May 15th, 2011
By Scott Gilfoid: On June 4th, the next victim for WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) will finally be known when WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) faces 42-year-old Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) in their Super Six tournament semifinals bout at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
However, Froch has looked horrible in three out of his last four bouts and is lucky not to have lost all but one of those fights. Froch was a mere 15 seconds away from losing a decision to Jermain Taylor in April 2009 when Froch was able to score a knockout with only seconds remaining in the fight. Had it gone the full 12, Froch would have lost on points. In Froch’s win over Andre Dirrell in October 2009, Froch missed with his punches all night long and ate a lot of jabs and was clearly out-boxed by Dirrell.
The referee ignored repeated fouls from Froch when he started roughing Dirrell up in the 5th and continued to foul until the 11th. I had Dirrell easily winning that fight. And then in Froch’s next fight, he was beaten by Mikkel Kessler by a 12 round decision last year in April. Froch was able to get a chance of lucky against Arthur Abraham, who was fighting out of his division and completely lost, by a 12 round decision last November. That was Froch’s one big win but it’s not really a big deal because Abraham was already beaten by Dirrell and has now been dominated by Ward.
Johnson has fought once in the Super Six tourney, beating Allan Green by an 8th round TKO last November. Johnson’s work rate and pressure was too much for Green and he ended up folding under the pressure. Now it’s Froch’s turn. He plans on changing his style completely and going from a pressure fighter and slugger to that of a boxer against Johnson. Froch obviously has seen enough of Johnson’s fights to know that it wouldn’t be wise to try and stand in front of this monstrous puncher and trade with him. Look for Froch to run all night long and look bad. I see this as a Johnson win.
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I have never seen a fighter who can take a punch like Froch, Ward cant hurt him so will have to run all night but if Froch catches him then Gilfoid will have to go into hiding. I only hope is that the final takes place on neutral ground and not in California.
Hey where is Tom Brit…Tom hope your boy froch wins. I know you wanted Abe to pull it off but you knew better and even though you come off intelligent at times….well I will leave that alone ok because by you being British I know you would have preferred Carl not having to fight ward but first he has to get by Johnson doesn’t he. Hey where is armo the Armenian and bearcat? And where is ringside?
Anyone who saw Dirrell easily beat Froch knows sweet F.A about boxing.
Spot on Inkspired. Froch punished Abraham in a way that Scotts love children Dirrell and Ward could only dream of.
Ward will beat Froch. Fact.
Does this writer every write anything worth reading? You’re boring
well said inkspired!!
ward will probably win this fight, probably by a safe margin, probably by easily going the distance.
Respect to Johnson but Froch will win this fight! Froch is in another league to Abraham so Ward won’t have it so easy should Carl progress! Should be a good fight and hopefully it can happen Sept/Oct.
after watching the ward AA fight you must say,if Ward ducked a little later on some AA right hands we could be talking differently.However Ward does look impressive.
I see johnson winning this one to. Froch will be out off luck in this fight.
shut up scott… next opponent yes and thats it… Froch has shown more heart than ward and fights out of his comfort zone…
Glen you are BEAUTIFUL, especially face
the best opponent to date record wise is kessler having won a on a technical decision due to cuts opened up by wards excessive headbutting.
his boxing didnt win him the fight, foul play did.
abraham isnt,wasnt and wont be a supermiddleweight fighter,
so what makes ward so good ?
he hasnt had a truly tough fight yet, hasnt fought outside his own backyard yet.
froch has fought kessler ans lost a very dubious homtown decsion, went to war with jean pascal and was hit with bombs that would have k.o’d any other fighter in the weight division, he went to taylors backyard and took everything taylor could throw then knocked him out in the dying seconds of the fight.
froch has travelled far and wide for his fights, fought tougher opponents than ward, and he made a damn site better job than ward did on abraham. as froch never lost a round .
he is bound to quote the fact that dirrell did for abraham, made the blueprint to beat him, but hey gilfoid, andre only won by faking a knockout. but if andre dirrell had the blueprint, froch perfected it, so no wonder ward beat him.
froch has done things that ward hasnt, been to places ward hasnt, so before u write that wards gonna tear froch apart, look at the facts, they are more in froch’s favour than little andre’s.
im pretty sure froch vs andre will be a intresting fight people will tune in and watch,but if it happens to be glen vs ward,people are going be tuned off when they see glen johnson’s age. I dont really wanna see that old glen lose to ward,it’ll be another mosley vs pac boring fight
Dirrell is trash too…
I wasn’t sold on Ward,but last night changed my mind slightly.I can’t help but think about Conte’s involvement in Andre’s career,so I’ll give him a little credit.Manny and Ward are cheats!!