By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn is counting on the Carl Froch vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr fight being put together in the near future for March of 2015. Hearn believes that he’ll eventually be able to make progress on that fight once the smoke clears from Chavez Jr’s problems with Top Rank.
Froch really wants the Chavez Jr fight for some reason, and he thinks that the fight is pay-per-view worthy in the U.S.
I’m not sure that I agree with him, because Froch hasn’t fought enough in the U.S to make a fight against Chavez Jr a match-up that the U.S boxing fans would be willing to pay to see. At best, I believe it’s a fight that fans would be willing to see on HBO in a main event, but that’s probably about as much as you can ask for.
“I’m more hopeful than ever that the fight will happen, hopefully at the end of March,” Hearn said via the Dailymail.co.uk. “There’s a dispute between Chavez and Top Rank but the kid’s got to fight. Sooner or later that will be resolved and when it does, I believe Froch-Chavez will be made. He’s ready to go, he’s been studying Chavez and he’s walking around 10lb over the limit already.”
Froch has the opportunity to face a lot of other fighters like the Dirrell brothers, Andre Ward, Bernard Hopkins and Gennady Golovkin. It’s interesting that he’s opting to fight the rusty Chavez Jr, who hasn’t fought since March of 2014. Chavez Jr has been out of the ring for the past nine months, and by the time he faces Froch, if he does face him, Chavez Jr will have been out of action for an entire year.
I’m not sure that you can sell a fight between Froch and Chavez Jr given that kind of layoff. The time for a Froch-Chavez Jr fight would have been way back in 2012 before Chavez Jr was exposed by Sergio Martinez. But with Chavez Jr having lost that fight and then looked terrible in his two fights against middleweight Brian Vera, a fight between Froch and Chavez Jr is one that has past it’s sale date.
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