Froch says he’ll start off fast against Kessler in Saturday

By Boxing News - 05/24/2013 - Comments

By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (30-2, 22 KO’s) plans on using his fight with Lucian Bute as a template in how to defeat WBA champion Mikkel Kessler (46-2, 35 KO’s) this Saturday night in London, England.

Froch wants to start off at a super-fast pace against Kessler and try and get to him early by throwing extended combinations while Kessler is still fresh.

Frosh said to Sportsillustrated.cnn.com “I think give it two or three rounds. I’m going to be sending in big shots like against Bute early on…this time it’s going to be totally different. He’s going to be shocked. People are going to be shocked.”

It seems that Froch’s high point of his career was his 5th round TKO win over Lucian Bute last year in May, and Froch refers to that fight over and over again, as if he accomplished something special. In reality, it’s hard to tell whether Froch got that win because of how good he is or how much Bute had slipped due to aging.

We don’t know how Bute really as because he had never fought anyone that you could call a really good fighter, so it’s not surprising that he would loser sooner or later. Librado Andrade got royally jobbed in his fight with Bute in 2008, and that was four years before Froch fought Bute.

Froch will probably start off at a fast pace against Kessler because I do believe Froch feels that the answer to beating anyone now is to jump on them early as possible and try and take them out with sustained combinations.

That’s obviously something won’t work against talented fighters like Andre Ward and Kessler, but it will work against Bute. That’s the thing with Froch. He tries something and if he finds it work, he tries it out on other fighters, but it’s not going to work against Kessler on Saturday.

It’s going to be a failure, and hopefully for Froch’s sake he has the sense to abandon this strategy when it becomes clear that it’s not working.



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