Video: Froch vs Kessler II Weigh-In

By Boxing News - 05/24/2013 - Comments

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (30-2, 22 KO’s) and WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (46-2, 35 KO’s) weighed in today for their fight on Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London, UK. Froch came in at 167.9 lbs, looking more muscular than usual on his upper body. Kessler weighed in at a pound less at 166.74 lbs.

Of the two, I’d say that Kessler looked to be in the better shape in terms of being ready for a hard boxing fight over 12 rounds. Froch looks like he overdid it a little bit with his upper body exercises this time around, and I think he’s going to have problems in the later rounds, if the fight makes it that far.

Froch appears to have trained hard to get a knockout. The muscles that he put on for this fight are bulky and they’re going to slow him down if the fight gets to the second half. I’ve seen that type of physique before on fighters that fight well for six rounds, and then gas out badly in the second half.

Froch has already spilled the beans by giving away his fight strategy for Saturday night by saying he plans on throwing 6-punch combinations to try and duplicate the efforts that he had last year in his 5th round TKO win over IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute.

Froch figures that if he unloads on Kessler with a blizzard of punches, Kessler will collapse just as Bute did. However, this is a much different fighter than Bute. Kessler has a great chin, and he’s already battle tested many times over. Bute was still unproven against top quality opposition despite him holding the IBF 168 lb. strap for many years. Besides that, Kessler has already shown that he can beat Froch by beating him by a 12 round unanimous decision in 2010.



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