Photo: Tom Casino/Showtime – By Sean McDaniel: After losing for the first time in his career in a 12 round unanimous decision loss to Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s) last night in Herning, Denmark, former World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) is reportedly threatening to pull out of the Super Six tournament if his next fight against Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) doesn’t take place in Nottingham, England, according to news from the Guardian. Apparently, there is talk of Froch’s next fight, a stage 3 Super Six tourney bout, taking place in Abraham’s home city of Berlin, Germany.

Froch had thought that the fight would take place in Nottingham, England, his home city. Froch, talking about the potential that his next fight will take place in Berlin, said “It would mean me pulling out of the tournament if they forced me to fight in Berlin. It has already been agreed that I would fight at home, fight away and fight back at home.” Hopefully, Froch had that agreement in writing, because if it was a verbal agreement than it might not matter. Froch’s promoter Mick Hennessy had a verbal agreement and not a written one that Froch’s fight with Abraham would take place in Nottingham, according to the Guardian. That’s where the problem rests then.

One would hope that Froch wouldn’t pull out of the tournament after he finds out about there not being a written agreement. After all, if Froch leaves the tournament now, he won’t get a chance to prove himself against the best fighters in the tourney and will have to settle for facing other, arguably lesser fighters in the super middleweight division. Beyond the Super Six tournament fighters, only Lucian Bute has the equivalent talent in the division.

Froch fought hard last night in battling Kessler for 12 grueling rounds, only to lose by a 12 round decision. The fight could have gone either way, and it was difficult to pick the ultimate winner in the fight. I thought the fight was a draw, but many other boxing fans and experts felt that Froch had done enough to get the win. The problem for Froch is that he let Kessler be the aggressor for most of the fight and it didn’t look good with Kessler constantly taking the fight to Froch. In rounds seven through nine, Froch looked tired and seemed to be pushing his punches. However, in the championship rounds, Froch stormed back and looked really good in rounds 10 through 12, appearing to win all of them with his bigger shots and cleaner landing blows.