Carl Froch undecided about comeback

By Boxing News - 11/11/2015 - Comments

frochBy Scott Gilfoid: It’s starting to look like former IBF/WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) wasn’t serious when he mentioned earlier this week that he’s considering making a comeback to possibly face the winner of the James DeGale vs. Lucian Bute fight on November 28th.

Froch said this week that he would like to win back his IBF 168lb title, which is now in the possession of the UK’s DeGale. Froch feels that it wouldn’t be a difficult task to defeat DeGale at Wembley, and then cruise off into retirement again.

The way Froch described it, the fight wouldn’t even be a challenge. What is hard to understand though is if the fight isn’t a challenge for Froch, then why in the heck isn’t he looking to face someone who would be a challenge to him? I mean, there is Gennady Golovkin out there who is very, very interested in facing Froch in the UK and at his own weight of 168.

If Froch doesn’t see a fight against the unbeaten knockout artist Golovkin as a challenge, then I think someone needs to sit Froch down and give him a whole pot of coffee to pour down his throat so he can think clearly.

“In a nutshell, there is no reason forcing me back into the ring,” Froch said in his column at Skysports.com today. ”There are no itches left to scratch and nothing left to prove. My final fight [against George Groves] was called ‘Unfinished Business’ – and I finished it,” Froch said.

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So in other words, it sounds like Froch is saying that ending his career against a previously unproven and badly flawed domestic level fighter George Groves was enough to satisfy him that he’d accomplished something. Never mind the fact that Groves was recently beaten by Badou Jack, who dropped Groves in the 1st round.

I’m not sure how Froch can be satisfied with ending his career against Groves through, because the guy was totally untested at the time Froch fought him. I wouldn’t even count a fight against Groves as being a test. The only thing Froch got out of the Groves fight was two paydays. It’s not as if the boxing world saw the fight and felt that Froch had actually accomplished anything. We’re not talking about Groves being seen in the same class as Golovkin and Andre Ward by fans. That’s why I don’t understand where Froch is coming from when he says he has “no itches left to scratch and nothing left to prove” with his career. If all it took for Froch to feel satisfied was to beat a low level guy like Groves, then that’s very, very sad. To me, that’s setting a really low bar for your career. If all it took was to make Froch feel like a success was to beat Groves, then what does that tell you about Froch?

“I went out on the biggest of platforms, with a crushing victory and secured my financial future,” Froch said.

Froch is talking about how his final fight against Groves filled the 80,000 seat Wembley Stadium in London, and how the fight was a success on PPV in the UK. I can’t believe that the fight even brought in 2,000 fans, because that fight wouldn’t sell in the U.S, because neither guy would be considered to be the No.1 fighter in the super middleweight division.

How do you sell a fight between a previously untested fighter like Groves and a guy that was beaten by Ward and arguably beaten by Andre Dirrell in Carl Froch? I don’t think a fight between Groves and Froch would even bring in 2,000 fans in the U.S, because the fans are particular about who they come to see. They don’t just come to see guys that aren’t No.1 in large numbers.

“I can honestly say that I’ve ticked every single box on a fighter’s bucket list,” Froch said about his career.

Well, Froch did lose to Andre Ward and a prime Mikkel Kessler. Froch did arguably lose to Andre Dirrell in a fight in his own hometown of Nottingham, UK. I don’t know what boxes Froch is talking about when he says he’s ticked the boxes. To me, Froch’s career is incomplete because he lost 3 times and never beat Dirrell, and definitely never beat a prime Kessler. Froch never fought Golovkin, and he ended his career by facing an unproven fighter in Groves, who was just beaten by Badou Jack.



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