Froch has two more months to train for Ward: Will it help?

By Boxing News - 10/12/2011 - Comments

Image: Froch has two more months to train for Ward: Will it help?By Scott Gilfoid: Depending on how you look at it, WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward’s recent injury he sustained during sparring could be a positive thing for his Super Six tourney opponent WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch or it could be a non-factor that won’t make a bit of difference to the outcome of this fight.

The bout was supposed to take place on October 29th, but Ward was cut over his right eye during a sparring session, and the cut was bad enough to require seven stitches to close it. The Froch-Ward fight is now scheduled for December 17th at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

This gives Froch two whole months to get in better condition and make any needed adjustments with his strategy to beat Ward. However, I don’t see there being any change in the likely outcome of this fight no matter how much extra training Froch gets for the Ward fight.

The reality is Ward is loaded with talent from head to toe, and Froch is not. You can’t beat an exceptional fighter like Ward just on strategy. That’s like a poor football team coming up with the greatest strategy and then going out and facing the Super Bowl winner and still expecting to win. It’s just not going to happen.

It takes talent, not just a great strategy to beat a fighter like Ward. I can only think of one fighter in the entire super middleweight division that has the talent to beat Ward, and that’s not Froch. He’s on my list of fighters that don’t have a chance no matter how many plans he has going for him on December 17th. Froch can have Plan A, B,C, D, and E, and he’ll still be taking a beating when he gets in there with Ward in December. There just isn’t enough talent there for Froch to beat Ward I hate to say. You can’t fake talent. You have to have it.



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