By Jason Kim: At today’s press conference in London, both former middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (28-2-1, 17 KOs) and WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (24-0, 19 KOs) were interviewed at a press conference via satellite.
Froch, who recently defeated Canadian Jean Pascal by a 12-round unanimous decision in December, a fight that was one of the best fights in 2008. Froch, however, doesn’t see Taylor as being able to go the distance with him, and is predicting that he’ll take out the former champion inside the distance.
“Taylor says he is going to take me into deep waters, but I can swim. I like it when opponents come forward and say stuff like that.”
Froch’s fighting style is similar to Kelly Pavlik, who previously defeated Taylor twice in 2007 and 2008, knocking him out one time. With incredible punching power, a high work rate and a high pressure offense, Froch will be looking to mimic the results that Pavlik got in his first fight with Taylor, which ended with Jermain being knocked out in the 7th round on September 29th, in 2007.
Taylor has changed his style since then, and is now focusing more on his boxing ability alone. However, his defense still looked leaky in his fight with Jeff Lacy, a 12-round unanimous decision win on November 15th, 2008. That’s not good, because Lacy’s work rate is much lower than that of Froch’s.
“I am not insulted by anything he might say. I will fight anybody to prove that Carl Froch is a marquee superstar.”
Froch is hoping that with this win, he’ll further enhance his status around the world and start getting attention for himself finally. He’s fought much of his seven year professional boxing career in the shadow of WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, who’s hogged all the glory to himself.
Before Calzaghe retired recently, Froch had been calling him out for ages with no luck. Normally, when there’s two big fishes in a small pond, the two fighters get together and fight it out to prove who’s the top dog.
However, Calzaghe ignored requests from Froch for a fight and focused instead on finishing his career fighting mostly American fighters. Froch seems to know that if he wants to make it big in the sport, he needs to cross the ocean and take on the best super middleweights from America and Canada in order to someday make his own name for himself.
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