By William Mackay: Ever since former WBC Carl Froch was beaten by Mikkel Kessler last April in his stage 2 Super Six bout, Froch has been acting like a fighter that is shell-shocked from the experience of getting beaten is going to try everything within his power to keep from suffering another defeat.

In this case, Froch is working hard to keep from fighting his next opponent in the Super Six tourney, Arthur Abraham, in a location that he feels he can’t win. Froch doesn’t think he can win in Abraham’s home country of Germany.

It doesn’t matter that Abraham is a huge puncher who rarely wins any of his fights by decision. It doesn’t matter that Froch, before getting beaten by Kessler, was looking mediocre and very beatable in fights against Jermain Taylor and Andre Dirrell.

Froch somehow doesn’t seem to understand how badly be performed in both of these fights. As bad as Froch looked in those fights, he looked much worse in his fight with Kessler. Froch appeared to get old overnight in that fight, looking tired by only the 6th round and failing to throw enough punches to win.

Froch fought desperately in the 11th and 12th rounds, but by then, Froch had basically given the fight away due to his lack of effort in the middle rounds. Now Froch is worried about getting beaten by a decision in a fight against Abraham.

It seems pretty silly because Froch has got the perfect style for Abraham. Unless Froch starts protecting his head from getting hit so much by putting some effort into keeping his hands up, he’s going to find himself getting hit with some monster shots that may knock him cold.

Froch is a good fighter against basic stationary types that can’t move and don’t do much, but against a quality fighter with a chin, Froch struggles. Abraham isn’t the best fighter in the Super Six tourney, but he’s got more power than the other fighters and is trouble against the slow plodders like Froch.

For this reason, I think Froch doesn’t need to worry about losing a decision because the chances are Froch is going to be scooped up off the canvas like waffle by the 4th or 5th round against Abraham and will wonder what hit him.