Froch feels he can fight forever, but will be brought down to earth by Ward on December 17th
October 23rd, 2011
By Scott Gilfoid: It doesn’t take much for WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) to get a feeling of being invincible. All it’s taken is wins over good but limited fighters Arthur Abraham and 42-year-old Glen Johnson and Froch is talking as if he’s unbeatable.
Froch told the dailymail.co.uk “At 34, I feel 20. Never been in better shape. I feel like I could carry on forever. I known one day my body will tell me it’s time to quit. But not for a while yet.”
Whether Froch’s body tells him to quit or not, he’s going to have problems when he faces Ward and gets spanked in December. And unless Froch goes back to facing guys that are perfect for his style, he could have additional problems. You put Froch back in with Andre Dirrell and Mikkel Kessler, and Froch is going to struggle in just the same way.
These problems are less age related but more due to those fighters having better talent. But at 34, the end isn’t far obviously. Froch needs to be smart with the opposition he chooses after he loses to Ward in December. My personal advice for Froch is too try and fight guys like Kelly Pavlik, Abraham, Jermain Taylor, Johnson, and Robert Stieglitz at super middleweight.
Those are guys that Froch can beat, but he can’t beat Kessler, Ward, Dirrell or Lucian Bute. Those are the ones Froch needs to avoid. The best thing Froch can do for himself would be to move down to middleweight and look to pick up one of those belts.
The 160 pound division is totally empty of talent right now and Froch can win a belt just by showing up. I can’t remember when the middleweight division was as weak as it is now.
I wouldn’t recommend Froch moving up to light heavyweight because no really cares about that division, and the best fighter in the division, Chad Dawson, would likely make Froch look silly if they fought. I’m sure Froch could bea the WBO light heavyweight paper champion Nathan Cleverly, but so what? Cleverly couldn’t even conclusively beat Tony Bellew, and really there needs to be a rematch between those two guys.
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ward will destroy froch and take his will to fight within 4 rounds and leave him batterd and bloody
Ward can easily be exposed here…Froch just has to be on his A game…id he lands 1 or 2 accurate powershots- it will ROCK ward…then ruin his gameplan. Still think Ward has 60/40 chance of winning here…
After Frock kos Ward its ok Scottie you can hang yourself.
Froch will knock Ward backWARDS all-night long!!! before knocking him out.
Im so going to write a article after Froch tko’s Ward
Froch is the man!!!
Froch is the champ that mean he’s the best!!!
Froch is the best am in the world right now bar none he will destroy ward end of!!!
And probably invite him to the gilfoidgangbang along with the dirells and wards and prescotts etc….
If froch was black Scotty boy would be dripping over him.
If ward can “spank” froch it will be impressive, but no one has ever dominated the cobra
Cant see any way Froch can beat Ward.And Dirrel was robbed again Froch.
@anonymous
Taylor schooled everyone before he eventually (& inevitably) got knocked out. As they say in motor-racing “to finish first, you first have to finish”. As for Froch, I hope he beats Ward.
Yeah, Froch can’t beat Dirrell… Oh wait, he already did.
froch is class act man! what other british world champion takes the fights he does?
I dont have a clue do I froch will smash all those american fairys
What does a fighter have to do to gain recognition around here. Froch has mixed it with the best, give him a break
Well said,Scotty.
Would love to see Ward v Taylor, people forget what an amazing talent Taylor is. He totally schooled Froch before being put away and with Wards lack of guts, grit and KO petential, I think he would be perfect for Taylor style.