By William Mackay: Fighting in Germany is totally out of the question for former World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) in his next stage 3 Super Six tournament fight against Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s). Froch would like to fight in either his home city of Nottingham, England, America or Canada. Froch feels doesn’t have a chance of winning his next fight if it takes place in Germany, where Abraham now lives and fights. “In Denmark or Germany, or anywhere east of Nottingham, I’m not going to be in a position where I can win the fight on points,” Froch says in an article at BBC Radio Nottingham. “I put myself in that position once, and lost my world title. So the fight is in Nottingham or it’s on neutral territory – in America or maybe Canada.”

Froch, 32, appears to be really jaded from his 12 round unanimous decision loss to Mikkel Kessler last month on April 24th in Denmark. For some reason, Froch feels that he won the fight. He must have read some of the comments boxing fans have been making about the fight in which many of them think that the judges got the scoring correctly when they gave the victory to Kessler. Indeed, I would guess that the majority of boxing fans feel that Froch lost the fight. I just don’t understand why Froch doesn’t see his fight with Kessler the same way that fans do.

Froch says “After losing my belt to Kessler in Denmark in a fight I feel I won, and didn’t even come close to winning on the judges’ scorecards, there’s no way I’m going to put myself in that position again. Froch’s opinion about fighting in his opponent’s backyard has dramatically changed since he suffered the loss to Kessler. Froch now seems convinced that he can’t win a fight in Germany no matter what he does. It’s unfortunate because he’s making things harder than they should be and there’s really no reason for it. Abraham has never won a questionable decision in his career and he’s almost all his fights in Germany.

When Abraham wins, it’s usually conclusive beyond a shadow of a doubt. Abraham generally knocks his opponents out and he’s not much of a boxer like Andre Dirrell, who lost a questionable decision to Froch while fighting in Nottingham. The chance of Abraham beating Froch by a close decision is probably quite small when you look at how Abraham usually wins his fights. Abraham is either going to knock Froch out or Froch is going to knock him out. I doubt the fight will even go to decision. Abraham can’t box to save his life, so if Froch doesn’t get knocked out, he’ll probably beat Abraham by fairly convincing decision that is beyond question.

Froch recently said that he’s going to try and take a page out of the playbook that Dirrell used in his fight against Abraham. It’s difficult to image Froch boxing Abraham for 12 rounds. That’s not Froch’s style of fighting and I have serious doubts about whether he’ll be able to pull it off without going to war with Abraham and getting knocked out. Dirrell boxed Abraham for 10 rounds until being hit in the head in the 11th round after slipping on the canvas. Abraham was subsequently disqualified for the foul.