Does Kessler deserve a fight with the Froch-Ward winner?
December 17th, 2011
By William Mackay: Mikkel Kessler (44-2, 33 KO’s) has been quite vocal about wanting to fight the winner of tonight’s Super Six tournament finals bout between WBC champion Carl Froch and WBA champion Andre Ward sometime in 2012, but does Kessler deserve the chance?
As beat up as Kessler was after the Froch fight, I think he would have had problems even beating Green. That would likely been a tough fight for Kessler, and clearly would have lost against to Ward in the finals. I think Kessler really doesn’t deserve to share the ring with the Super Six winner, because he hasn’t redeemed himself yet. I think Kessler would be better off facing the loser of the tournament and if he wins that fight then I feel he should get a shot at the Super Six tournament winner, but not immediately, no way.
Kessler is scheduled to face WBO super middleweight champion Robert Stieglitz on April 14th in Kessler’s home country of Denmark. Stieglitz is considered a paper champion in the eyes of a lot of boxing fans and this should be a winnable fight for Kessler. It’s disappointing that Kessler’s management is aiming him at what fans consider the weakest of the champions instead of someone that would have a chance of beating him.
Right now I have hard time seeing Kessler beating Froch, Ward or Lucian Bute. I think Kessler would even have serious problems against some of the top contenders like Anthony Dirrell and Sakio Bika.
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what a weird logic …..
kessler did not knock out froch so he is not good enought to face the winner of the fight tonight ?
kessler can beat anyone in the division .
Bute is wildly overrated
he has beaten froch allready
if he can get Ward out of his own backyard where he cant cheat , then he surely has a chance
Yes ,he deserves it as much as any other.except Bute who we want to see how he fares.
If Froch wins, definately. If Ward gets an easy decision he should look to fight Bute. By the way Kessler would have easily beaten anyone in the supersix. Beside Ward. Styles make fights and we will see how Ward will handel the style of Froch. It will be an ugly fight, I am sure.
Very good article – truthful, observant and well written as all your articles are unlike that tool Guilford – your right him and probably all the others want to fight the winner to claim glory after all the work is done. To me a unification with Bute is the only option for the winner and the loser can fight maybe Kessler or A. Dirrell – If I was Kessler I would not go to Germany to fight anyone as unless you knock them out – you lose
Yes and no.
Against Froch, it will be another great fight.
Against the Ram, it’ll be one sided loss again.