Mikkel Kessler

Froch threw 1034 punches against Kessler, landing only 25%

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froch443By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s punch stats showed a fighter who threw an awful lot of punches last night in beating Mikkel Kessler by a 12 round unanimous decision, but the accuracy from Froch was dreadful to say the least. Froch missed with 75% of his punches last night. That’s why Kessler wasn’t marked up despite Froch throwing a massive of shots.

HBO’s CompuBox stats showed that Froch threw 1034 punches but only connected on 25 percent of them. In contrast, Kessler threw less than half of the amount of punches that Froch threw with 497 punches but had a much healthier 39 percent connects percentage.

Froch wasted a ton of punches by throwing jabs that hit air all night long.

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Ward: Froch struggles when fighting outside of the UK

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froch4534By Scott Gilfoid: WBA super middleweight champion Andr Ward says he has a pretty good idea why IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch is so determined to fight all of his fights in the UK. It’s because he was beaten twice when he left the UK to fight guys and he doesn’t want to have that happen again.

Ward said to thesun.co.uk “His Froch] record is 4-2 on the road and he’s undefeated in the UK so I know why he wants it here [in the UK]. Let’s talk about it if you’re serious or else just stop ringing my name up.”

Is Ward kidding? I doubt Froch and his promoter Eddie Hearn will stop mentioning Ward’s name.

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Hearn: Carl Froch doesn’t need Andre Ward; people want Froch-Kessler 3

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kessler4000By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn, the promoter for IBA/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s) came out and said it in plain language that he’s not looking to put Froch in with Andre Ward in his next fight. Instead, Hearn is eyeing a third fight between Froch and Mikkel Kessler or possibly a fight against 48-year-old Bernard Hopkins. Of those two, Hearn seems more excited about a Froch-Kessler third fight because of fan interest.

Hearn said to I Film London “I said it before, Andre Ward is a fantastic fighter, but he needs Carl Froch; Carl Froch doesn’t need Andre Ward. He’s [Froch] got two of these little babies [Froch’s WBA & WBC titles].

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Lennox Lewis: Froch needs to improve to beat Andre Ward

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ward765By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis was pleased with IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s win last night over WBA champ Mikkel Kessler, but Lewis is realistic about Froch’s chances in a rematch against WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward.

Lewis feels that unless Froch improves a whole lot over what he showed last night against Kessler, he’ll get taken to school by Ward if he chooses to ever fight the talented American again.

Ward beat Froch with a broken left hand two years ago in a one-sided fight, and he says it’ll be even easier with two healthy hands.

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Froch confesses: Kessler hurt me

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kessler65By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight Carl Froch gave the straight talk after his 12 round unanimous decision win Mikkel Kessler, saying that he was hurt by the Dane on at least one occasion in their fight at the O2 Arena in London, UK.

It’s nice that Froch admitted it because it would have been disappointing if he tried to claim that he wasn’t hurt because Froch was staggered in the 11th round after Kessler nailed him with some jarring shots.

Froch said after the fight ”He was there to hurt me on a couple of occasions he did hurt me.”

Froch was lucky that Kessler wasn’t giving him the full treatment like he did in their first fight because Kessler’s punches seemed harder this time around and they had more of an effect on Froch when landing.

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Froch clear winner over Kessler

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froch4543By Stevie Ocallaghan: After a tremendous fight last Saturday night between two great fighters, IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s) got some redemption in defeating a tough as hell Mikkel Kessler (46-3, 35 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision at the O2 Arena in London, England. A fairly close fight, but Carl for me won by two clear rounds.

After the first fight three years ago there was never any danger of this being a boring Andre Ward style of fight, both of these guys came to fight. Don’t believe what you read from some of the writers around, this was a great fight, and yes somebody from Britain can actually fight, but according to some, you wonder why a Brit even enters the ring.

Andre Ward after the fight said Froch needs to fight in America, because that’s where it matters. My question to Ward is why? Does America have more world champions than the rest of the world. No. Ward stated that he had to fly to his fight in Atlantic City, but it was still his country.

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Andre Ward: Kessler should keep fighting if his body lets him

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kessler564By Allan Fox: Unbeaten Andre Ward doesn’t think Mikkel Kessler (46-3, 35 KO’s) should retire after his close 12 round unanimous decision loss tonight against IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch in London.

Ward thinks Kessler fought a good fight but that he didn’t throw enough punches in the early rounds of the fight, and put himself in a spot where he had to rally hard just to catch up to Froch.

Ward said after the fight about whether Kessler should retire or still fight: “If he wants to and he can physically hold up, I think he should fight on.”

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Froch: Ward has to come to the UK to fight me

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froch302By Scott Gilfoid: Fresh off of his 12 round unanimous decision win over WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler tonight in London, England, IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch gave his one condition for WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward to fight him – the fight has to take place in the UK where Froch lives.

In other words, Froch doesn’t want to come to the United States to fight Ward again after losing to him by a 12 round unanimous decision in December 2011 while the two were taking part in the Super Six tournament hosted by Showtime Sports.

Froch said to Sky Sports tonight: “He [Ward] is there to be beaten, but not over in America. Let’s get him over here. I went over to America and now let’s get him over to England. I said before this fight that the winner should really be concentrating on moving on and my other loss was to pound for pound number two in the world Andre Ward.”

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Froch interested in fighting Kessler a third time

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froch305By Scott Gilfoid: Tonight, IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s) beat WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (46-3, 35 KO’s) tonight by a 12 round unanimous to even the score in their two fights together, but instead of talking about wanting to move on and face the other fighter that whipped him, Andre Ward, Froch says he wants to fight Kessler a third time.

Froch said “It’s one [victory] a piece. Who knows? You [Kessler] fancy a third one? It feels really good. The only thing that feels bad is that I had to beat such a nice gentleman, a real warrior.”

Yeah, I bet Froch would like to fight Kessler again with a price tag of 15 pounds on pay per view. I wonder how many times Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn can sell this one before the public loses interest.

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