By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/W BA super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn saying he had a conversation with HBO about potentially matching Froch against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Gennady Golovkin or Andre Ward in that order. Ward was the last name that Hearn mentioned, and that doesn’t surprise me at all because he beat Froch already in 2011.
Hearn said to Sky Ringside “The fight I want to make is Froch vs. George Groves. Carl’s got a lot of options. I was talking to HBO last week, talking about Chavez, talking about Golovkin, talking about Ward. I appreciate what the fans want [Froch vs. Groves], and I want it too. Hopefully, we can get it made.”
If Hearn is going to get the Froch-Groves rematch made then he’s going to need to convince Froch to take that fight because Froch was saying on the same show that he’s not interested in fighting Groves again. If Froch is the one that is the decider in who he fights, then I don’t think it’s going to be Groves again.
Froch said last Thursday “Do I want to go over old ground? Not at the minute, no. I like to move forward with my career and the only old ground I like to go over again is for a defeat. It would be nice to avenge the Andre Ward defeat if that can possibly be made.”
So there it is. Froch once again is saying he’s not interested in giving Groves a rematch. Here’s the thing: I don’t see Chavez Jr. and Golovkin being available or interested in fighting Froch in the early part of 2014, and possibly not at all next year. What is Froch going to do then? I don’t buy for a second that Froch is honestly interested in fighting Ward next. I do think he might fight him again, but only if it’s his last fight of his career. I see Ward as Froch’s cash out fight and nothing more than that. So if Chavez Jr. and Golovkin aren’t willing to fight him or aren’t available then who is Froch going to fight next? Will he wait them out until they do change their mind or will Froch do the smart thing and agree to fight Groves in a rematch? I hope Froch is mature about it and makes an adult decision, because if he gets stubborn about it, then I can see him sitting around waiting for a heck of a long time for nothing.
It’s funny how Froch is perfectly okay with the middleweight Golovkin moving up to fight him at the full weight of the super middleweight division, and yet Froch won’t meet him for a catch-weight, and he won’t move up in weight to fight WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson. So in other words, Golovkin has to move up and fight Froch at his weight if he wants the fight. And Stevenson doesn’t get the fight because Froch doesn’t want to move up 7 pounds and fight a career-long super middleweight in Stevenson at 175. We’re not talking about a fighter who has always fought at light heavyweight. Stevenson just moved up in recently from 168 because he was tired off waiting around for Froch to fight him as Froch’s mandatory challenger.
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