By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KO’s) says that his promoter Eddie Hearn is in discussion with Mikkel Kessler’s promoter about a possible fight in Froch’s home city of Nottingham in mid-October. Froch wants Kessler to have to fight in his home city rather than the two fighters facing each other in a neutral venue or in Denmark.

Froch told thesun.co.uk “If the fight happens, it will happen in Nottingham…There’s no reason on paper why mid-October this fight can’t happen in Nottingham…It gives me a chance to set the record straight…He got the hometown decision [in their first fight]. If it was in Nottingham, I would have got the decision.”

I think Froch is really kidding himself if he honestly thinks Kessler’s win over him in Denmark was because of a hometown decision. Kessler flat out beat Froch, and dominated him in the first half of the fight and the championship rounds. There was absolutely nothing controversial about that defeat. Even Froch’s own loving Brit fans saw him as the loser in that fight, and that pretty much tells all you need to know. I do agree with Froch about him probably getting the decision over Kessler had the fight been held in Nottingham.

After seeing Froch get a decision over Andre Dirrell in Nottingham in 2009, I think Froch could beat even Andre Ward in Nottingham. I had Dirrell totally dominating Froch by a lopsided 8 rounds to 3 with 1 even, and yet he wound up the loser. If you take away the point deduction that Dirrell got, I had him winning 9 rounds to 3. So, yeah, I think Froch is right about him getting a decision over Kessler in Nottingham, but that’s not saying much. This is why I think Kessler will be making a huge mistake if he agrees to fight Froch in Nottingham.

If he goes there and loses, then it’s not as if he’ll get another chance to get a do over. I mean, look at Dirrell. He’s been waiting all these years and he still hasn’t been able to get a rematch against Froch. I know Kessler is confident about his skills, but I think he needs to think twice about agreeing to fight Froch in Nottingham. If anything, make the fight happen in one of the neighboring countries like Finland. I’m sure Froch’s British fans would be willing to fly over there to see the fight. If it was me, I’d tell Froch to forget it. If he wants to step in the ring, he’s got to make the fight in a neutral venue.