Groves: Froch won’t be able to take the punishment

By Boxing News - 10/31/2013 - Comments

froch302By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated George Groves (19-0, 15 KO’s) doesn’t think IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s) will be able to absorb the punishment that he’s going to be dishing out to him on November 23rd without succumbing to it at the Phones 4u Arena in Manchester, United Kingdom. The 25-year-old Groves figures to be too fast, too powerful and way too young for the aging 36-year-old Froch to win the fight.

Groves feels that his speed and his constant work rate will eventually be too much for Froch to take and he’ll hit the canvas and won’t get back up.

Groves told Sky Sports “I know I’ll be the first person to stop Carl Froch. He’s never been stopped before. I wouldn’t want to predict a round, but I’m going to hit him far too frequently, far too hard for him to take that sort of punishment for 12 rounds. He gets himself in shape. All that means is he’s in better shape to take a better beating.”

Groves definitely has the speed and power to KO Froch. We’ve seen Froch staggered and badly hurt in fights against Jermain Taylor and Andre Dirrell. The thing that those guys didn’t do was to keep hammering Froch after they hurt him. Taylor gassed out after knocking Froch down in the 3rd, and Dirrell waited too long before showcasing his power against Froch. It wasn’t until the 10th round where Dirrell started nailing Froch with power shots and had him staggering.

For Groves to KO Froch, he has to stun him with a big right hand, and then nail with a flurry of head shots as he’s staggering around the ring. If Froch gets back to his feet, then Groves needs to hit him with a storm of shots until he goes back down. It might take 3 to 4 knockdowns before the fight is eventually stopped because Froch isn’t going to just lay down and go out on a whimper after Groves drops him. Froch has too pride to get stopped on the 1st knockdown.

It’s going to take a bunch of knockdowns to get him out of there. The only way I see it being stopped after the 1st or 2nd knockdowns is if the referee panics and halts the fight immediately after Froch goes down. I wouldn’t be surprised if that happens because I’ve seen a of fights that were ended way too quickly after a fighter hits the canvas. The referee waives it off before the poor sap has even had a chance to hear the count if 1.

Froch is going to have a lot of problems with Groves’ speed, movement and power in this fight. That’s pretty much a given. Froch doesn’t handle fighters with movement and speed very well, as we’ve seen in his fights against Andre Ward and Andre Dirrell. And he’s never really faced a fighter that had all three things going for him before in terms of speed, movement and power the way that Groves does. This means that Froch is going to be seeing a type of fighter that he’s never seen before, and that could be bad for him.



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