Photo credit: Casino/Showtime – By Scott Gilfoid: You can already smell fear leaking from WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch now that his fight with WBA champ Andre Ward is inching closer.

Froch talked a good game a month ago, sounding like Alexander the Great putting together an unbeatable battle plan. But now with only days to go before Saturday’s Super Six finals bout, Froch is sounding like an old grandfather who misplaced his teeth.

Froch of all people is worried about the judging for the fight. This is a guy that was given a 12 round split decision victory over the talented Andre Dirrell while fighting at home in Nottingham, England two years ago.

To this day, you can probably count the number of boxing fans on one hand that thought Froch deserved a victory against Dirrell. But don’t tell Froch, he thinks he beat Dirrell by a lopsided decision.

If you really want a laugh, Froch also thinks he deserved the decision in his fight against Mikkel Kessler. So sad and so out of touch this Froch is.

Froch said to the Dailymail.co.uk “You’re always worried about scoring when you’re away from home…I won comfortably against Andre Dirrell but on judge had him winning. I still believe I would have got the decision against Mikkel Kessler if the fight had been anywhere other than Denmark. They would have loved to give Arthur Abraham the decision against me over in Europe.”

Can you believe that? Froch actually thinks he beat Dirrell. God, talk about having warped sense of the past. I do think Froch would have beaten Kessler outside of Denmark, but only if the fight took place in his home country. Froch would have likely won that fight comfortably had it taken place in Nottingham, and that’s really sad.
Froch continues “I’ll just have to hit him [Ward] with everything. And if that doesn’t work maybe I’ll have to kick him where it hurts.”

Just look at that. Froch is already planning on going primitive on Ward. I wonder if he was taking notes while watching Amir Khan’s foul-plagued loss to Lamont Peterson last weekend?

I personally think Froch is paranoid about losing a decision in America. He needs to relax, though. Ward won’t be the home fighter because he comes from Oakland, California, not Newark, New Jersey. It’s going to be the equivalent of Ward traveling from Europe to take this fight. He’s a west coast go, and this fight is on the East coast where people are completely different. There’s no love for Ward on the East coast. He’s just some guy from Oakland, I doubt a lot of people know where that is.