By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) still would like to fight a rematch with WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s) in the future once Kessler’s eye injury heals – if it ever does. In an interview at Livefight.com, Froch says “I was hoping to have gotten a rematch with Kessler through the format of the Super Six. But health must come first and having eye problems in the past, I can only sympathize with Kessler’s current situation and wish him well.” Kessler suffered a bad eye injury in his fight against American Andre Ward last year in his first fight in the Super Six tournament. Kessler fought with the injury against Froch, but was still able to beat him without showing any signs of having problems.

But Kessler decided to bow out of the tournament before fighting Allan Green next month rather than take any unnecessary risks with his vision. There is a possibility that Kessler’s World Boxing Council super middleweight title could be on the line for Froch’s October 2nd fight against Arthur Abraham in their stage 3 Super Six tournament fight at the Chapiteau de Fontvieille, Principauté de Monaco, Monaco. This fight will effectively be a semifinal match, because Kessler won’t be replaced in the tournament and Green is out because he no longer has an opponent and nor does he have enough points to make it to the next round. F

roch could find himself in the finals against either Andre Dirrell or Andre Ward if he wins his fight against Abraham. There’s a good chance that Froch could get knocked out by Abraham because of Froch’s tendency to fight with his hands down his sides. Abraham does really well against fighters that compete with their hands down.

Froch says “There is talk of my fight now being for the vacant WBC title. Whist I appreciate being afforded the opportunity to regain the prestigious belt, I wanted to win it back from Mikkel himself.”

Well, it’s probably not going to happen. Kessler is injured, his title may be on the line, and we don’t even know if Kessler will fight again. Froch needs to put his loss behind him and try not to get knocked out in his next fight against Abraham. He’s got a lot of things to worry about in that fight as it is. But I really want Froch to win so that Dirrell or Ward can show their skills against him in the finals.

Dirrell may not make it to the finals even if he beats Ward. Dirrell and Froch will both have four points each if they win their next fights. With Froch having beaten Dirrell in the past in a controversial 12 round decision fought in Froch’s hometown of Nottingham, and then Froch would get the nod to be the one that moves into the finals rather than Dirrell. I think that’s not fair. They need to have a tiebreaker match in a neutral venue to decide who gets to be the one that fights Ward.

In the meantime, Kessler has given up his WBC super middleweight title for the sake of the Super Six tournament, saying in an article at thesun.co.uk, “I’ve been assured that it will heal completely and that I will be back in the ring next year. As a fair sportsman, I do not want to delay the Super Six, which is still the best thing that has happened to boxing for a long time. That is why I have given up he title and I wish my fellow contestants the best of luck — may the best man win. I will be there to fight the winner in 2011.”