Froch’s fight with Kessler could cost him Ward rematch

By Boxing News - 12/23/2012 - Comments

froch0324By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (30-2, 22 KO’s) has laid out three fights that he badly wants to take place 2013 with him fighting Mikkel Kessler, Lucian Bute and Andre Ward. It’s like a kid in a candy store. Froch has these fights that he sees himself fighting and getting nice paydays in each of them. Unfortunately, the only way all of those three fights take place is if Froch beats Kessler next and then whoever comes after him.

A loss for Froch against Kessler will remove any chances of Froch getting a fight with Ward, which is why I think it’s silly of Froch to be lining up all these guys in his head that he plans on fighting when the chances are pretty high that he’ll have his three fights torn apart in his first fight of the three-fight series.

Froch can probably still get the Bute rematch even if he really wants even if he loses to Kessler. The Bute rematch is something they have a contract for so it’s not necessary that Froch beat Kessler, although it would be nice if he did that because a Froch-Bute rematch would be laughable if Froch can’t get past Kessler.

If he had thought about it, Froch should have taken the rematch with Bute first because that’s the only fight of the three that he would have a decent chance of winning. Both Kessler and Ward beat Froch, and you got to figure it wasn’t an accident that they were able to control Froch, and beat him decisively in the Super Six tournament.

If Froch had at least fought Bute first it would have put Froch in position to where he would have been able to fight two of the three fighters on his list before he was removed from getting the third fight by getting beaten. But by taking the Kessler fight first, Froch has put himself in position to where he’ll only get one of the three fights. I wonder who came up with this brilliant plan for Froch to fight Kessler first. Whoever it was they were asleep at the wheel when they were figuring out the strategy.



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