By Scott Gilfoid: Trainer Adam Booth says that Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves (18-0, 12 KO’s) has been bragging about how he thinks he can beat all the super middleweights in the division and he’s going to let him attempt to do that in the future once Groves actually starts facing quality opponents.
Groves is still pretty much facing 3rd tier fighter, which kind of makes the whole idea of him thinking he can beat all the other guys at 168 laughable.
Booth said to ESPN “George is 18-0 now. Doing the business on May 25, he’ll be 19-0. For quite a while with George he’s been looking at every single middleweight and he’s been saying ‘I can beat him, I can beat him.'”
I wonder who the “him” is that Groves is talking about because he’s been facing weak opposition like Dario German Balmaceda and Baker Barakat in his last two fights, and in his toughest fight of his career against James DeGale in 2011, Groves won a controversial 12 round split decision.
If Groves can’t even beat DeGale without controversy than how on earth can he be crowing about how he can beat all the other super middleweights? I mean, what’s wrong with this picture? He gets a controversial decision over DeGale and now he’s saying he can beat all the other guys at 168? I got an idea. How about Groves going back and fighting DeGale again to prove that he can actually beat him without controversy next time because the way I saw that fight, DeGale won by two rounds and I had no dog in that hunt.
Groves will be fighting in the co-feature on the Car Froch vs. Mikkel Kessler card on May 25th at the O2 Arena in London, UK. Groves is supposed to be fighting a top 10 contender in order to become the mandatory challenger for WBO super middleweight champion Robert Stieglitz.
It’s interesting that Groves is seemingly going after the weakest of the super middleweight champions instead of the better champions. If Groves can beat all the other super middleweights like Booth said then why is he targeting the perceived weakest of the champions at super middleweight? Is that just an accident or is it by design?
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