By Scott Gilfoid: A still very conflicted Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) is at it again with his doubtful talk about how he’d beat WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) if they’d fight, but then in the same sentence, yapping about how might retire instead of taking the fight.
Froch, 37, says he’s not sure if he wants to fight on or retire, but he still feels he’d whip Golovkin if he decided to honor him with a fight. I smell fear. I think Froch hasn’t made up his mind because the picture in his mind of all the things that can go wrong in a fight against Golovkin.
Believe, a lot can go wrong for Froch if he gives his promoter Eddie Hearn the green light to make the fight with the talented Kazakhstan fighter. I mean, just think of the image of Froch flat on his face on the canvas, out cold in front of 80,000 Brits at Wembley Stadium in London, UK. It would potentially be a bad ending for Froch.
Of course, if Froch won the fight, he would be covered with glory and could retire a hero, and likely walk away with $15 million. Unlike Froch’s two back to back wins over domestic level fighter George Groves, it would be a real win for Froch if he were to beat Golovkin. It wouldn’t be an empty win over an unproven guy with a chin and stamina problems like with Groves.
“Golovkin? He doesn’t worry me, I fear no man. I’ll fight Golovkin if I box again, but it’s a big if,” Froch said via Skysports.com. “If I do end up fighting Golovkin I want to take his undefeated record off him.”
Froch sounds like he’s in major denial about him not being afraid of Golovkin. We saw just a couple of months ago how Froch was raring to go at the thought of getting a fight against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Froch was flapping his gums about how he thought it would be a great way to end his career fighting Chavez Jr. under the lights of Las Vegas, Nevada.
I don’t think anyone saw that as an interesting fight that they wanted to pay to see. Instead, the general consensus was that Froch was looking for an easy mark to cash out with, and Chavez Jr. was perfect for that. Unfortunately for Froch, he hurt his elbow, and Chavez Jr. turned around and fought light heavyweight Andrzej Fonfara and got whipped by him last April. Now Froch is stalled at the thought of fighting a much more dangerous fighter in Golovkin.
The money for the Golovkin fight is likely the same that Froch would have gotten had he fought Chavez Jr. The difference is that Froch has a very, very real chance of losing, and we’re not talking about losing like he did against Andre Ward and how he arguably lost against Andre Dirrell. Froch has a chance of being knocked out by Golovkin in the clinical sense. That kind of thing causes someone to hesitate, and we’re seeing it with Froch right now. He’s hesitating and I read that as fear and a bad case of stage fright.
“He’s a middleweight and I think I would be too strong for him and I think I will be able to take his punches a lot better than the middleweights have taken them – or not taken them,” Froch said.
Well, Froch, if you’re “too strong for him” then why in the heck aren’t you signing the dotted line to get the talented Golovkin in the ring so you can show boxing fans that you’re better than him? You barely took Groves’ punches, so how are you going to be able to take a guy that punches much harder than Groves for 12 rounds?
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