By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn says that a fight between his fighter IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (32-2, 23 KO’s) and former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (47-1-1, 32 KO’s) is possible for July.
George Groves is also a possibility for Froch’s next fight, but Hearn seems to be really excited about the idea of matching Froch against the 27-year-old Chavez Jr. next, provided that he wins his scheduled rematch against Brian Vera on March 1st in San Antonio, Texas.
“I spoke to Bob Arum last night [and], they love the Chavez fight,” Hearn said to Livefight. “July in Vegas was discussed as a possibility, potentially on HBO pay-per-view if he [Chavez Jr] beats Vera.”
PPV for Chavez Jr-Froch in the U.S? I don’t about that going over too well with American boxing fans. If Bob Arum of Top Rank makes that fight a PPV bout, he could end up very disappointed when he sees the PPV results afterwards. Froch isn’t well known enough in the U.S for that fight to be a PPV bout. He fought in the Super Six tournament that was televised by Showtime, but he pretty much got spanked by Andre Dirrell, Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward. After that, Froch’s rematch against Mikkel Kessler was televised on HBO in the U.S. last year, and that was a really terrible fight and a poor effort with Froch. I’m sure HBO wasn’t happy with the performance from Froch and with the ratings it brought in.
Not surprisingly, Hearn doesn’t seem interested at all in putting together a rematch between Froch and Andre Ward, saying “There just isn’t commercial value in the Ward and [Gennady] Golovkin is likely to stay at 160 lbs for the time being, so our options are now looking like Chavez or Groves.”
I could have predicted that Hearn would say that about Ward, because there’s just no way that Hearn is going to put together a fight between those two fighters again. Froch is too slow, too easy too hit and too limited to have any chance of beating Ward in a rematch. If Hearn were to set up a Froch-Ward rematch, it would be like he was signing Froch up for what would be a guaranteed loss. You can expect Hearn to use the excuse of Ward not being a fight that has commercial value in the future so that he doesn’t need to put Froch back in with him.
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