By Scott Gilfoid: Every fighter starts out with zero losses on their record, and if they’re lucky, they don’t suffer their first loss for a couple of years. And if they’re matched carefully enough to avoid dangerous opponents, they can get well into their career before they experience their first loss. World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) is one of those rare fighters that has gone fairly deep into his career without being beaten. Granted, Froch only has tiny handful of fights against what I would call major league opposition, but Froch is still technically undefeated at this point so you have to give him some credit.

However, I think Froch, 32, is about to suffer his first defeat of his career when he steps in the ring against former WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler on April 24th, in Herning, Denmark. If you were to ask 100 people who they thought would win the Kessler-Froch fight, I’d be willing to bet that most of them would say that Froch will win by knockout. And you know what? I think most of them would be wrong for picking Froch. But I can understand why people would make that mistake.

Froch had a good year in 2009, defeating Jermain Taylor and Andre Dirrell, albeit a controversial win in his home stadium in Nottingham, England. A lot of fans ride then bandwagon, and whoever has the hot hand, those are the fighters that they typically back. It’s easy to blindly follow along with others are saying, but if you really want to choose wisely, you need to research in depth about the fighters like I do. I’ve seen Froch’s fights, all of them in fact, and I have to say he’s going to get destroyed by Kessler on the April 24th. Kessler is just too talented for Froch, and I see him pretty much mopping the deck with Froch, and beat him like an old drum.

Oh, I think Froch will have his moments in the fight. No one will beat an iron-jawed fighter like Froch without him getting in a few shots along the way, but I still think Froch is going to get royally pounded by Kessler. We’re talking a major beating here. It won’t be pretty, but it’s what happens when you get a really skilled fighter like Kessler and throw in a steel jawed fighter that has no quit in him like Froch. I hate to see a fighter take a lot of punishment.

I just hope the referee steps in at some point and saves Froch from himself. I don’t want the guy to be ruined for his other fights in the Super Six tournament. I mean Froch still has a fight against Arthur Abraham in the stage 3 part of the Super Six tournament, and if Froch wants to get to the semi finals some way, he’s going to have to win that fight to get there. It helps to have amnesia about one’s defeats.

I hope for Froch’s sake that he can out away the memory of his loss by Kessler out of his mind when he takes on Abraham later on in 2010. I don’t want Froch to be only partially there and not totally focused for that fight, because if he’s still sulking about the Kessler defeat, Abraham might catch him with a huge shot and stretch him like he did Jermain Taylor in his 12th round knockout win last October.