Hearn looking at May for Froch vs. Groves II rematch

By Boxing News - 01/19/2014 - Comments

froch-1By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn is hoping to set up a big money rematch between IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (32-2, 23 KO’s) and George Groves (19-1, 15 KO’s) for May of this year if he can get Froch to accept it. Froch can get 5 million pounds for this fight, but it’s up to him if he wants the big payday or a smaller one to fight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Hearn doesn’t seem like he wants to push Froch, as he’s leaving it entirely up to him if he wants to face the dangerous Groves again.

If Froch doesn’t agree to a rematch with Groves, I wouldn’t mind seeing Froch fight Jean Pascal again. I think that’d be a decent fight. Take the Pascal fight first – before someone else like WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson gets to him – and then face Groves afterwards if he’s still interested in fighting him. I think Froch-Pascal II would be a good tune-up fight for Froch to get him ready for the Groves rematch.

Right now Froch still doesn’t feel like he should fight the 25-year-old Groves again, even though the vast majority of the boxing world thinks he was messed around last November in his 9th round TKO loss to Froch in Manchester. This was the fight where referee Howard John Foster jumped in between Froch and Groves and halted the fight while Groves was still upright and cogent. In watching it on replay, you just want to laugh at how badly Foster blew it. It was such a blow it move by him.

“The Groves fight is the biggest financially, but I don’t think Carl feels he needs it,” Hearn said to the Mirror. “The public wants it but as far as he’s concerned he has beaten Groves. I’ll put the options on the table and the fighter generally choosesd the fight which is the biggest financially. I think deep down, Carl will want to do a job on George Groves before he retires because he doesn’t like him at all…We’re already talking to venues about doing it at the end of May.”

That would be so, so sad if Froch turns down the bigger money rematch against Groves to take a lesser fight against Chavez Jr. That’s pretty much Froch’s only real option because Hearn recently ruled out a rematch between Froch and Andre Ward by saying it’s not a fight of commercial value. And Froch isn’t going to get WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin to agree to move up to 168 to fight him. It’s basically Groves or Chavez Jr., unless Froch wants to try and fight Pascal again.



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