Kessler: I’ll give Carl Froch a rematch

By Boxing News - 12/10/2012 - Comments

By Scott Gilfoid: Newly crowned WBA World super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (46-2, 35 KO’s) says he’ll give IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch the rematch that he’s been asking for ages now. However, don’t count on seeing the two in the ring until later in 2013 and 20014.

Froch has a problem on his hands with a rematch against former IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute starting him in the face for March of next year, and that’s going to get in the way of his rematch hopes with Kessler.

Kessler said to Sky Sports News “Of course, he [Froch] can have the rematch.”

Kessler saying that Froch can have the rematch and actually giving him one are two different things. Kessler’s promoters will likely have him go on a quick title milking run by putting him in with WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham before any talk of a Froch-Kessler fight can take place.

Froch really thinks he’s going to get the Kessler fight next. Froch said to Sky Sports “I think step one is already complete – they (the promoters) have had a good conversation and it’s looking promising that the fight can definitely happen, either in the spring or early summer of 2013.”

I wonder what kind of conversations Kessler’s people have had with Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn? It could be something casual but not serious. I know Froch really wants this fight but he shouldn’t get his hopes up because I think there are too many things standing in the way.

Froch is like someone wanting a really nice shinny choo-choo train for Christmas and then they wake up on Christmas day and end up a pair socks. Froch has to understand that Kessler will likely go for an easy title milking fight against Abraham before he even considers a fight with Froch.

Froch is going to have to fight Bute in March, so he shouldn’t be worrying about a fight with Kessler because it’s probably not going to happen. Froch is too eager. He needs to back off and focus on more attainable fights like the Bute or better yet Adonis Stevenson title defense. I forgot all about him. Heck, the International Boxing Federation may strip Froch if he doesn’t defend his title against Stevenson next, so Froch is going to have his hands filled either way.

Here’s how I see it happening. Froch fights Stevenson, and if wins that fight Froch will then take on Bute later on in 2013. As for the Kessler bout, look for it to happen in 2014, if Froch and Kessler are still cogent.



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