By Scott Gilfoid: Barry Hearn, the chairman for Matchroom Sport, is excited at the prospects of a fight between his fighter former IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch and unbeaten middleweight Gennady Golovkin potentially taking place this year.
Froch still hasn’t made up his mind yet, and he says he’ll be making a decision in the first week of June. But Hearn, the father of promoter Eddie Hearn, thinks the Froch vs. Golovkin fight is big enough to fill the 80,000 seat Wembley Stadium in London, UK.
Whether Eddie Hearn would place it in that venue remains to be seen. Hearn could wind up playing it safe by staging it at the 40,000 seat Forest Grounds in Nottingham, UK. If that happens, he could be shortchanging Froch and Golovkin by 40,000 potential fans.
“Number one, it’s certainly an 80,000 seater sell-out at Wembley, no question,” Hearn said via Skysports.com. “Would he be tempted by Golovkin, which is obviously the toughest fight out there for him? Even the (Andre) Ward fight is easier, because he doesn’t hurt you, he’s just very skillful.”
It’s not good that Froch can’t make up his mind straightaway whether he wants to take the fight with Golovkin or not. The fact that the 37-year-old Froch is still conflicted about the fight suggests that he wouldn’t have his heart 100 percent into the job should he take it, and I could see Golovkin going out and quickly massacring Froch in front of his own British fans in the UK.
Froch would make it easy for Golovkin by coming straight at him thinking he could bang him out like he did against the limited George Groves. Froch would then find out the hard way that there is a world of difference between Golovkin and Groves.
By the time that Froch figures that out, he’d likely be on the canvas staring up at the bright lights. It would be like a young George Foreman facing Joe Frazier with the way Froch would come straight at Golovkin and then getting his lights punched out.
Froch will be making his decision soon, but it’ll be pretty sad if he decides he doesn’t want to risk his legacy on a fight against Golovkin. It’s always sad when people are afraid to attempt things for fear of failure. Froch will limit himself and become his own worst enemy by failing to at least try and beat Golovkin. But then again Froch must have a pretty good idea of his own limitations as a fighter, because I couldn’t see him turning down the fight if he thought he had a good chance of winning it.
The money is too good for him to turn it down if he thought he could win it. I mean, look at how excited Froch was about fighting Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. The only thing that Froch would have accomplished in fighting Golovkin was getting a big payday out of the fight. The fans wouldn’t have cared about the win because they don’t see Chavez Jr. as a good fighter.
“The danger is when you take fights like this, especially at this time of Carl Froch’s career, where he doesn’t know whether he will fight on or not. It’s a decision he’s got to make,” Hearn said.
It’s not so much the danger, it’s just that Froch could get beaten worse than he otherwise would be beaten if his minds not into the fight. I don’t think Froch would beat a talent like Golovkin at any point in his career, but it will be much worse if Froch goes into the fight conflicted and not totally motivated 100%.
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