By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch continues with his interest in speaking about Joe Calzaghe for some reason, saying in an article at Guardian, “He [Calzaghe] took the easy option. He’s out of the circle and looking in, thinking ‘I’m not part of this anymore. Calzaghe is desperate for good publicity and that’s why he wants some new profile on the back of me. It’s cringe-worthy. Even if he wanted to come out of retirement, he’s too old and fat now.” Last time I checked, Calzaghe had stopped talking about Froch. It’s been at least a month since Calzaghe said anything about Froch in the media.

Instead of focusing on Calzaghe, Froch needs to think about his next opponent Mikkel Kessler, whom he fights this Saturday in Herning, Denmark. Froch could end up getting royally spanked if he keeps tripping off of Calzaghe and not putting his entire focus on Kessler. In the recent photos I’ve seen of Calzaghe, he looks anything but fat. In fact, Calzaghe looks in fighting shape and perhaps weighs slightly better than 170.

There are rumors circulating that around the boxing world that Calzaghe is thinking about staging a comeback against a relatively soft opponent. If true, Calzaghe should be able to find success. It’s only been a little more than a year since he last fought, beating Roy Jones Jr. in late 2008. With Calzaghe’s talent, he should be able to pick it up and easily beat whatever soft tough they put in with him.

I seriously doubt that Calzaghe would contemplate fighting one of the Super Six tournament contestants, though, because he would likely see this as a risky thing and might not want to suffer a loss. I also don’t see Calzaghe fighting IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute, who is considered by some boxing experts to be the best in the division. I don’t think Bute is, but he’ll be considered to be the best until he finally fights one of the top guys like Andre Dirrell, Andre Ward and some of the other Super Six contestants.

Froch says this about Kessler: “This is his [Kessler] last chance, so I’m getting the last burst of the very best Kessler. I’m fighting him in his backyard and most people regard me as the underdog. I relish that. He’ll come hard for five or six rounds and have a real go. I’ll have a go right back.”

The last burst of Kessler should be enough to beat the best of Froch, as far as I’m concerned. I don’t agree with Kessler being almost shot. I think he just got beat by a good fighter in Andre Ward. Kessler was already beaten by Calzaghe three years ago, and you certainly couldn’t say that Kessler was over the hill in that fight. Kessler is limited technically because he doesn’t that well, isn’t that fast and isn’t a huge puncher. However, he’s better than Froch in most of those areas and pretty much even in terms of power. Froch may be a little bit more of a puncher, but he loses with his lack of hand speed, movement and poor defensive skills.