By William Mackay: Former World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (42-2, 32 KO”s) feels good about his chances against WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) for their April 24th, Super Six tournament fight in Herning, Denmark. Kessler, 30, sees a slow fighter with a traditional European stand up fighting stance in the 32-year-old Froch and Kessler is really looking forward to getting in the boxing ring and exposing Froch’s noticeable flaws.

Kessler says “Froch is the sort of fighter I’ve been knocking over since I turned pro. Froch is a great fighter with fantastic chin, so I know how hard it is going to be to beat him. No one has managed so far in the pro ranks. I am not kidding myself how difficult it is going to be, but Froch is my type of fighter. He stands in the center of the ring like me and never takes a step backwards.”

Kessler is describing Froch perfectly with this brief description of his fighting style. Kessler was beaten in his last fight by the young, quick Andre Ward by an 11 round technical decision on November 21st, 2009. Ward was the complete opposite of Froch, showing incredible speed, lightning like shots and outstanding defensive ability.

Kessler, who is more a stand up Euro fighter himself in the traditional mode, struggled from the onset of the fight against Ward and never was able to be competitive with him. However, as bad as Kessler looked in that fight, there’s a good chance that Froch would have looked even worse had he been in there with Ward. Froch has had troubles with his last two opponents, needing a knockout in the last seconds of his fight against Jermain Taylor last year to pull out the win, and winning a questionable 12 round decision over Andre Dirrell in his last fight in October 2009.

Froch won both of the fights, but it showed that Froch’s talent is hitting a ceiling, and it’s unclear how much farther he can go before he starts getting beat. It may be that Froch will suffer his first defeat against Kessler, as he’s fighting someone with better boxing skills, speed and who will be fighting at home in front of a large crowd in Denmark. If the fight goes to a decision, Froch, unless is able to knock Kessler down, he could end up losing the fight to the Dane.