Groves: I don’t want to be known as the guy that keeps beating DeGale
October 19th, 2011
By Scott Gilfoid: British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves (13-0, 10 KO’s) faces a tough test in former British super middleweight champion Paul Smith (31-2, 17 KO’s) next month on November 5th at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London, England.
Groves says he wants to keep learning and improving step by step until he fights for a world title. He sees the DeGale fight as something he’s already done and he wants to go past it, yet he could be fighting a rematch with Kenny Anderson in the near future. Anderson is someone Groves stopped last year in the 6th round, whereas DeGale appeared to beat Groves in the minds of many boxing fans. It could be that Groves doesn’t want to take the risk of fighting DeGale again in case he loses the next time around. In any event, it’s a fight that can only help Groves and not slow down his forward progression. At 23, it’s not as if Groves is getting old and is in a big hurry to fight for a world title before he ages out.
“I’ve beaten him twice,” Groves said to Westlondonsport.com. “I’ve done what I need to. My career is about going on to be a world champion and the best fighter I can be…My career doesn’t revolve around James DeGale.”
Facing Smith, a fighter that DeGale knocked out in the 9th round, doesn’t seem to make sense for Groves. If his goal is to be the best fighter he can be, shouldn’t he be facing the best guys? If he didn’t prove that he’s really better than DeGale, shouldn’t Groves fight him again and prove that he’s better than him?
None of this will make any difference if Groves can’t get by Smith next month and I have my doubts that he can. Smith packs a wallop and he’s a great pressure fighter. We’ve already seen Groves get hurt before in some of his fights, and Smith is a better puncher than Anderson in my view. All Smith has to do is make sure lands enough shots and he could have Groves out of there.
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Dude you continually miss the point when talking about the De Gale vs Groves rematch.
Its a much bigger and more lucrative fight two or three years from now when (hopefully)one or both has a version of the world tile. That’s the argument for holding off.
Don’t forget Benn and Eubank waited three years before fighting again.
groves has beat degale 2 times now so what is the point of a 3rd? a 3rd fight will be pointless (for groves) and will only benifit degale, groves wins again so what? but degale wins its a diffrent story. groves will stop smith in 5 rounds
Deffo a ni@@3r
Best of 5 i heard
Gilfud you tosser, go back to flippin burgers you know sfa about this game
gimpfoid is a thick ni**er…..just thought id mention that.
Groves will beat Smith, just like he beat DeGale. The difference is that he will do a better job on Smith than DeGale did. Paul has never impressed me to be honest. Cant believe Gilfoid is still going on about this fight. It WAS close, it WAS’NT controversial. If either man won, you could’nt really have argued.
Get over it!
apart from the Cobra, George Groves is the best super middle in this country, against a really really tough Kenny Anderson he came from a place De Gale has never came from, from a imminanat defeat, hes guttsy, fast fights well on front and back foot, i like Paul Smith also a graet fella but i see St George winning this bout
DeGale looked worse than ever in his last fight. If Groves has improved at all, the result would be the same
Groves is right to move on and fight other guys. It was a close fight between Groves n Degale but not a great fight that had knockdowns and other exciting moments. I reckon they should move on and maybe in a couple of years if theres still not much between them have it out again.
Didn’t you say the same rubbish about Groves not getting past DeGale either ?
someone posted this before, but i will repeat it, does Gilfoid want Groves to keep fighting Degale over and over until eventually Degale wins? of course he does, the c**t.
groves will beat smith in 6 or 7 rounds!