Hearn not interested in matching Froch against Nathan Cleverly
December 19th, 2011
By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (23-0, 11 KO’s), perhaps sensing a wounded animal ready for the kill in former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s), now badly wants a fight against Froch in 2012. Froch was easily beat by WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward last weekend and Cleverly obviously would like to be the next guy to beat Froch.
This would be an interesting fight for the British public to see, and as bad as Froch looked against Ward, you couldn’t rule out a win for Cleverly. He like likes to throw a lot of punches and could outwork Froch. The one thing going against a Cleverly victory is his lack of defensive skills. He’s very easy to hit and he wouldn’t be able to dodge Froch’s shots the way that Ward did last Saturday.
Cleverly went life and death with Froch sparring partner Tony Bellew last October and that wouldn’t be a good indication of Cleverly having much success against Froch.
Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn ruled out a fight against Cleverly, saying that he’s not the fight that they’re looking for right now. Hearn plans on matching Froch up against IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute twice in 2012 with one fight taking place in Bute’s adopted city of Canada and the other in Froch’s home in the UK. Those are obviously much bigger fights than a Froch-Cleverly bout.
Cleverly is rumored to be facing #9 ranked World Boxing Organization contender Andrzej Fonfara (20-2, 11 KO’s) on February 25th at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales, Fonfara can’t punch and isn’t much of a threat for Cleverly. It’s unclear how the WBO will allow this fight to take place, as Cleverly fought #13 ranked contender Bellew for his first title defense in his last fight in October and now is facing another lower ranked contender. It’s time for Cleverly has to defend against his mandatory challenger sooner or later and picking off lower contenders over and over again is a little off putting.
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Bellew hit cleverly all night in their fight and he could have won that fight. I had bellew winning atleast six rounds comfortably.
Froch is a step up and cleverly wouldnt be able to handle him. Cleverly should fight enzo maccarinelli in what i think would be a exciting 50/50 despite enzos downfall.
cleverly was handed the lowly regarded wbo belt by a city link courier and has fought a number #16 ranked man on day he got the belt then a #13 ranked man in bellew which a judge had as a draw and now hes in with a #9 ranked man who was #12 a month ago but is now #9 with out fighting.??????? and hes calling out froch whos last 7 fights is the stuff of legend pascal,dirrell,taylor,kessler,abraham,johnson,ward and bute next for number 8. before them 8 their was undefeated rybaki and robin reid.thats 6 undefeated men two former undisputed in taylor and johnson,6 world champs.only 2 who were not champs were wbc#1dirrell and wba#10 rybaki who was a sub as wbc#2 inkin never turned up for eliminator for 2nd time.now thats what you call a cv it puts calzaghe to shame.as for cleverly.?? he calls for the best? well pascal and dawson are at home.frank said hopkins was next for bellew or cleverly so why has cleverly got another bum.? no wonder him and burns have loads of wbo defences as they dodge top men.its killing sport.
Froch makes super middle easy, why would he want to move up after a loss.
how can there be a winner when 2 british losers fight?
I remember Carl calling out Calzaghe. Now the boot is on the other foot. Cleverly thinks Froch is his ticket into the big time, but I reckon Froch would KO Clev. Well done to Ward for the S6 win, but Froch… what a chin!
Froch would kick Nathan’s behind.
with that performance against Ward i reckon Cleverly would beat Froch convincingly…
YEH COS HE KNOWS FROCH WUD TEACH CLEVERLY A BOXING LESSON