DeGale: I’m all wrong for Froch; my style is bad for him

By Boxing News - 06/05/2013 - Comments

degale5By Scott Gilfoid: WBC Silver super middleweight champion James DeGale 915-1, 10 KO’s) figures he’s got the talent and the style to unseat fellow Brit IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s) when and if they ever fight. Personally, I’m thinking that fight never happens, but DeGale thinks it will. He actually thinks Froch wants to fight him.

DeGale said to Sky Sports “My style is wrong for him [Froch]. Look at the fighters that have given him trouble: [Andre] Ward, [Andre] Dirrell, [Jermain] Taylor. Move, speed, I think I’ll be wrong for him. I’m here if Carl Froch wants the fight. If the boxing fans want the fight.”

I kind of doubt that any boxing fans in the UK are crying for a Froch-DeGale fight because it would potentially be a bad fight to watch. Froch is slow, easy to hit and he barely won his last fight against Mikkel Kessler.

At this point, I think Froch would probably lose to DeGale as long as DeGale didn’t do something incredibly stupid like not throw punches in the first three rounds of the fight like Kessler.

All DeGale would have to do is tag Froch with quick combinations and move away before he’s had a chance to land his slow shots and he’d have the victory. That’s all he’d have to do.

I think Froch is ripe for the picking for DeGale. Unfortunately I don’t see Froch or his promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport saying yes to a fight against DeGale. Eddie has already laid out his road map for the fights he wants for Froch by saying he’s interested in a Froch-Kessler 3 fight, a bout between Froch and George Groves and then Froch vs. Bernard Hopkins.

Andre Ward could follow all those fights if Froch has anything left and hasn’t been beaten by all of those guys.

DeGale has a mismatch coming up this Saturday night against Stjepan Bozic (26-6, 17 KO’s) at the Glow, Bluewater, Greenhithe, Kent, United Kingdom. Bozic is the same kind of opposition that DeGale has been fighting since he got spanked by Groves two years ago, and it just seems like either DeGale or his promoter aren’t keen on stepping him up against quality opposition. I mean, they want the title shot against Froch, but they’re not facing other top contenders in the division for some reason after the loss to Groves.



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