By William Mackay: World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) appears to be thinking beyond his next fight in the Super Six tournament and is thinking about fights with IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute and WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal, according to Thisisnottingham..

It seems rather bizarre that Froch, 32, is thinking about a fight with either of those two, because Froch struggled badly in his first fight in the Super Six tournament in a controversial 12 round split decision win over Andre Dirrell. Froch barely won that fight while fighting in front of a home town crowd in Nottingham, England. Froch has a fight coming up next against former WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler on April 17th in the stage 2 part of the Super Six tournament.

Froch had this to say about Bute “If he’s available I’d go over to Canada and fight him. He [Bute] is a good operator with fast hands and tidy skills and he demolished [Librado] Andrade in their rematch.” Froch needs to slow down his ambition for a second. He still has a fight ahead of him with Kessler in Mikkel’s home country of Denmark. That fight is no walk in the park for Froch, who struggled badly against his last two opponents Jermain Taylor and Dirrell.

I could understand Froch talking about wanting to fight Bute if he had dominated Dirrell and Taylor instead of going life and death with them. Froch has a fight against Arthur Abraham in the stage 3 part of the Super Six after his fight with Kessler in April. But by looking at Bute, it’s like a person who has a room full of chocolate that would take him years to eat asking for even more on top of that. Froch should just focus on the Kessler fight and hope he doesn’t get beat.

Froch also had this to say about Jean Pascal, an old opponent of his, saying “If Pascal beats [Chad] Dawson then Froch vs. Pascal II is a reality.” Dawson and Pascal will possibly be fighting in June 2010, if Pascal’s bum shoulder is healed up by then. Pascal looked poor in his last fight beating Adrian Diaconu by a lopsided 12 round decision in December in a fight that was held in Pascal’s adopted country of Canada.

I thought the scores were ridiculous for that fight and had Diaconu winning the bout by a round or two. Pascal fought with one had much of the time after his shoulder came out of the socket on him. In the second part of the fight, he did little other than throw an occasional flurry. I don’t see the point in Froch wanting to go over old ground by fighting Pascal again. Froch needs to be moving forward not going back towards his glory days. Anyway, I don’t see a Froch-Pascal fight happening for a couple of reason.

First of all, I see Froch losing to Kessler in his next fight. And second, Pascal will not beat Dawson. There’s no way that’s happening. Dawson is bigger, stronger and the much better boxer in my view and I see Pascal getting a boxing lesson by Dawson. Pascal barely beat Diaconu, who would likely be in serious trouble against a fighter like Dawson.

No, Froch should focus on the Super Six tournament and just try not to get wiped out in his next two fights against Kessler and Abraham. What good is it thinking about Bute and Pascal if Froch can’t get by Kessler and Abraham? I doubt those guys will want to fight Froch if he’s been beaten in back to back fights.