By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) would like to move up to the light heavyweight division after he finishes the Super Six tournament, according to Thisisnottingham The 32-year-old Froch says I want to win the Super Six tournament first, as that will give me universal status,. Then maybe step up to light heavyweight, eat a few bananas and fight Jean Pascal. He is now World Boxing Council light heavyweight champion. We have a handshake on it that we would fight each other. He wants to get the blemish off his record and I said I would give him the chance to do it. I will step up and fight him for the world title.”

That sounds nice, I guess, but I see a couple of problems that could throw a wrench in Froch’s works. First of all, I think Froch is going to lose big time in the Super Six tourney, starting with his next fight against former WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (42-2, 32 KO’s) on April 24th. I also think Froch lose his next fight in the Super Six tournament, this one against Arthur Abraham.

That loss will eliminate Froch from the Super Six tournament. If Froch doesn’t mind moving up to the light heavyweight division following two consecutive losses, then I’m cool with that. It actually might not be a bad idea. However, it might look to some boxing fans that Froch is running away from the super middleweight division rather than just moving up in weight to seek greener pastures.

It might look kind of funny to see Froch moving up after getting beaten a couple of times, but it’s a good move. I wouldn’t blame Froch for wanting to move up. If he’s getting beaten at super middleweight and struggling, then who’s to blame him for wanting to move up in weight to the light heavyweight division? To be sure, the light heavyweight division isn’t exactly stacked with talent and I can see Froch easily becoming a champion at that weight class as long as he doesn’t fight Chad Dawson.

Speaking of Dawson, I wonder why Froch didn’t mention him as someone he wanted to fight. That would seem like the fighter that Froch should be mentioning as someone he would like to fight rather than going over old ground and fighting Jean Pascal again. That’s like going backwards instead of forwards. I wouldn’t want to do it. Froch already beat the dude, so why fight him again. Froch needs to be looking at new opponents like Dawson or Tavoris Cloud.

Froch says “I have Kessler, then Abraham and then two more fights to win this Super Six. For now, I am really looking to April 24. It is going to be a humdinger.” I hate to break this to Froch, but I think he’s going to totally dominated by Kessler on April 24th. The fight will be held in Kessler’s home country of Denmark, and given how badly Froch struggled against his last two opponents Jermain Taylor and Andre Dirrell, I think Froch’s good luck is about to run out.

Froch won a controversial 12 round split decision in his last fight against Dirrell. The chances of Froch winning another controversial 12 round split decision is probably not very good. Kessler has superb boxing skills, some of the best in the entire super middleweight division. In contrast, Froch is a slugger and not much else. If Froch can get to Kessler, then he’ll win. If not, then I see Kessler beating the stuffing out of Froch and winning a lopsided decision.

I see the latter scenario happening. Kessler doesn’t get knocked out. He’s proven that. It doesn’t get any better for Froch in his next fight against the hard hitting Arthur Abraham in their stage 3 Super Six bout. Abraham will no doubt be looking to get back on the winning track after losing to Dirrell this Saturday night, and will have the perfect opponent for him with the stationary Froch. It will be easy for Abraham because Froch will come straight at him and basically walk into Abraham’s big shots. I see that fight ending in a knockout win for Abraham.