Froch is doomed to lose to Ward without an inside game
October 25th, 2011
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) is outgunned in his Super Six finals bout against WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) on December 17th at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. No matter how you look at it, Froch doesn’t have the skills in the appropriate areas to win.
Outside game: Ward has the better skills on the outside because of his strong jab and quick lead right hand. Froch doesn’t have anywhere close to the same kind of hand speed and to make up for his lack of speed he keeps his arms out in front of him so that he can throw arm punches. Froch uses the same strategy that heavyweight Vitali Klitschko utilizes to make up for his slow hands.
Inside game: This is clearly an area where Ward is much better than Froch. Ward’s inside fighting ability is on par with Bernard Hopkins. Froch is kind of limited to holding and hitting while on the inside. I’ve never seen Froch do much on the inside other than hold, hit and throw love taps to the back of his opponents’ head from time to time while in a clinch.
Hand speed: Ward is so much quicker than Froch that this area isn’t even worth discussing. It’s academic that Ward is the much faster fighter.
Power: I see this as an area where both fighters are tied. While Froch can throw hard at times, Ward is more dangerous in my view because he not only punches hard but he throws with much better hand speed.
I would give Froch a chance in this fight if he could learn some inside fighting skills but he doesn’t have much time. It takes too long to learn how to fight on the inside good enough to compete against a world class athlete like Ward. Froch simply doesn’t have enough time to learn. If he was with a great trainer who’s focus was teaching him how to throw to the body, I think Froch could be a decent body puncher in two or three years. The problem is Froch only has less than two months to learn and that’s not enough time. Froch is going to lose I hate to say and lose badly.
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Ward getting KtfO in the final ´;.;.`
Is Ward a beter inside fighter than Glen Johnson? Ward fought inside effectively against Allan Green but couldn’t get him out of there. Johnson did the same and stopped him in 8 rounds.
Froch isn’t a natural inside fighter but against Johnson he proved he could handle the heat, countering Johnson to great effect!! Johnson is imo physically stronger than Ward, he couldn’t bully froch on the inside so what chance does Ward have. His fight with Brian Magee also proves Froch can fight inside when he has to!!
Ward will be better off using tactics similar to his Kessler fight, he can’t afford to get wild though as Froch has better timing to his punches than Kessler and will counter to great effect.
I think Ward will win but not by inside fighting!! But Froch can’t be counted out, he has more ability than is recognised.
Paul williams was on that list below as well…and he finally got his food eaten…Skill eventually beats “busyness”…but someone just has to step up and do it…thanks martinez…
Hope Froch wins…boxing’s STRONG fighters gotta start clearing out the “over-active”, “over-hyped” fighters…Shall i list: WARD, Andre Dirrell, Devon Alexander…..Ward is the realset out of that crew…but lets dead the shadowboxers ..shall we???
Froch cant win becos the fight is in the US. Not matter what, it will be a home town decision
Just look at how Lara was robbed against Paul ‘The bean pole’ Williams
froch did a better job on abraham then ward did,frotch has more power. dont write carl off he,s in with a good chance
stronger fighter: Froch….probable winner: Ward
Ward can easily be exposed here…Froch has to be on his A game…if 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
typical Americans think there best at every thing i think froch will knock him out
That rich calling Froch a loud mouth limey!!and thats coming from the worlds famous loud mouth yanks.
Froch isn’t aware obviously how much of a dork he is, another loudmouth Limey, alot like Haye but he isn’t a sissy like Haye…….your right he has no inside game. Ward will shut him up.
Froch is a wind bag and a Brit. Ward will slice him and dice him and he will whine and whine. If he spent all the time he crys to training he would be better, but never more than a B+ Ward is AA
Could not agree more with Scott Froch will beat ward in 9.
your writing is of the same quality as this sites advertising
it’s always robbery when froch wins
That was robbery when dirrell and froch fought and ward is going to dominate froch just wait and see
ward is fast but he’s no match to froch when it comes to punching power. who did he knock out lately? froch outboxed dirrell who’s at least as fast as ward so we don’t have a clear winner here. anything is possible which makes this fight very exciting.
Froch will win this one because he wants to…Ward will quit..!
The fight is in the US so Froch has zero chance of winning in the states. Ward is to smart anyway and will dance away to an easy win.
You hate to say it yeah right
froch vs ward is like stupidity vs inteligence
froch= caveman stupidity
ward= inteligent boxer
gillfoid you delete my comments but you dont delete joes comment about dirrel typical bias brit.
Cobra is the clear underdog but he isnt doomed. If a boxes a brilliant fight he will win
PS – Dirrell is a pusssssssssy!
You sound like Dan Goosman. Froch has more than enough skills to win this fight. You are underestimating him!!!! Go on the Cobra