Froch is out of excuses tonight

By Boxing News - 05/25/2013 - Comments

froch1000By Scott Gilfoid: We’ve heard IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s excuses for why he lost to Mikkel Kessler three years ago and for why he got beaten by Andre Ward in 2011, and some of Froch’s loyal fans have bought into his excuses.

Well, tonight at the O2 Arena in London, England there can be no more excuses for Froch. If he loses tonight, he can’t fall back on the old ‘I lost my edge because my travel to the site was delayed’ or ‘I lost my concentration because I was away from home around Christmas.’

Those excuses won’t hold water, not that they did the first time around mind you. But if Froch can’t get the job done tonight against Kessler then he’s just going to have to face the facts that he’s not good enough to beat the top echelon of the super middleweight division.

Sure, Froch can beat an aging Lucian Bute and Glen Johsnon, but Froch’s losses to Kessler and Ward, as well as what arguably should have been a loss to Andre Dirrell in 2009 in the Super Six tournament, paints a picture of a fighter who can beat some of the guys but the real talents in the division and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Not everybody has the talent to be at the very top. That position is reserved for the fighters with superb ability and if Froch can’t do it tonight against Kessler, then he’s just going to have to accept the fact that he doesn’t have what it takes to be among the best. Froch doesn’t have to retire if he loses to Kessler.

I think he can continue to still make a good living with his promoter Eddie Hearn luring fighters to Nottingham for Froch to fight them, but as far as Kessler and Ward goes, he will have proven that he doesn’t have the talent to be looked upon as being in the same class them.

What I’m really hoping is that Froch doesn’t start with the lame excuses if and when Kessler beats him tonight. That would be so sad to see Froch reverting back to his hold habits of not admitting that he just didn’t have the talent to get the job done.

Froch is the one that feels that he’s the better fighter than Kessler; Froch’s the one that’s been pushing for the fight. Tonight he’s going to have to prove whether he can walk his talk.



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