Golovkin willing to fight Froch in UK

By Boxing News - 10/17/2014 - Comments

froch11By Scott Gilfoid: WBA Super World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler reportedly spoke to Eddie Hearn, the promoter for IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch, about the unbeaten Golovkin coming over to the UK to face the 37-year-old Froch in 2015.

There’s no word from Hearn whether Froch would be open to a fight like that, because Froch seems to be totally dialed into wanting a fight against former WBC 160 pound champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, even though Chavez Jr is no longer a champion and his stock has plummeted dramatically in the boxing world sense his loss to Serto Martinez in 2012.

“I’ve reached out to [British promoter] Eddie Hearn and I said that Gennady will come to UK and fight Carl Froch at 168 pounds in England. No problem, because he knows that he has a big numbers of supporters there,” Loeffer said via Fightnews.com.

Instead of talking about fighting Froch in the UK, Loeffler should be saying he’ll fight him in Las Vegas, Nevada, as that’s where Froch wants to fight. He wants to see his name in lights on the Vegas strip before he hangs up the gloves. The unbeaten Golovkin would be the perfect fight for Froch if he wanted to get respect from boxing fans in the United States.

Golovkin, with his “Mexican style” of fighting, would be the ideal guy right now for Froch. With Chavez Jr having looked horrible in his last three fights against Brian Vera and Sergio Martinez, Chavez Jr isn’t seen in the same light as he was previously by many boxing fans.

If Froch’s idea is to impress fans, then he’s probably making the wrong decision to be trying to get a fight against Chavez Jr instead of Golovkin, unless Froch’s idea is to get a beatable guy that he’s pretty certain he can beat. Then you can kind of understand why he might want to fight Chavez Jr rather than Golovkin.

Interestingly enough, Golovkin won the poll on Froch’s own Facebook page when he asked fans to pick between Golovkin, James DeGale and Chavez Jr for who they want to see Froch fight next. Golovkin finished No.1, Chavez Jr No.2, and DeGale a distant No.3.

Froch said this about the idea of him fighting Golovkin via HBO: “Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don’t need to be in with him. Dangerous fight.”

Swerve Golovkin? Well, there it is. If that’s how Froch feels about fighting Golovkin, then I guess it doesn’t matter that Loeffler was trying to setup a fight between Froch and Golovkin, because that comment from Froch would suggest that he doesn’t fancy a fight against Golovkin.



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