Froch says he has 4 fights left in his career

By Boxing News - 05/27/2013 - Comments

By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s) estimates that he’s down to his last four fights of his career before he hangs up his gloves for good. Froch sees himself fighting for two or three years at the most. He believes he can last this long due to his clean living and because he doesn’t get hit a lot in his fights.

Froch said to Sky Sports “I’ll be able to keep going. Maybe two or three years – two, three or even four top level fights…I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t smoke, eat silly food or go up in weight.”

If what Froch says about him fighting four more times is true, you’ve got to figure that these are the guys that Froch will be fighting before he hangs up his gloves:

Mikkel Kessler – for a third and possibly fourth fight

Andre Ward – this is a big, big maybe fight. I can see Froch choosing not to take it.

Bernard Hopkins – this is one that Froch may have to get his promoter to agree on.

George Groves – I’m not sure if Froch will ever take this fight due to Groves’s poor opposition.

I think it’s pretty clear that Froch will fight Kessler for a third time because the cash they made for their fight last Saturday night was too good for Froch and his promoter Eddie Hearn to walk away without pushing hard for a third or even a fourth fight.

Kessler too will likely be agreeable to the fight because of the big money he made. The only place Kessler can get comparable money is if he were to fight Arthur Abraham in Germany. That would be a huge fight for the German boxing fans and I can see Kessler getting a lot of money from that fight.

Rather than seeing Froch fight Groves or Kessler, I’d rather see Froch fight Adonis Stevenson, Chad Dawson or Andre Dirrell. Those are much more interesting fights in my view and I think it would be perfect. Froch really should think about fighting 8 more times instead of just four more because he could then fit in all seven if these fighters and if he won them all, then he’d have a real legacy.

Right now, I’m not too impressed with Froch’s legacy because he lost to Ward, he has a very controversial win over Dirrell, and he lost to Kessler, who was still close to his prime at the time when he fought Froch the first time. I mean, Kessler’s best years were between 2005 and 2007. Froch would have never beaten Kessler at this point in his career.

Kessler was slipping when he beat Froch in 2010, but he still had enough left in the tank to beat him. Last Saturday night, we saw a Kessler that clearly doesn’t have it anymore and he STILL almost beat Froch. That tells you how talented Kessler was when he was at his best. I believe if you insert a younger version of Kessler in the ring with Froch last Saturday then you’d have seen Froch get stopped or soundly beaten.



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