By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) wasn’t impressed with two-time light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson’s performance against WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal last Saturday night in Montreal, Canada. Froch, 33, thinks he would beat Dawson if they were to fight, and he also thinks all of the other Super Six tournament fighters would beat him as well. In an interview at Livefight.com, Froch says “He [Dawson] says he can make 168 lbs still but after seeing his strength and his fitness at 175 lbs being a bit questionable, I think that would be a bad move to head down as I reckon any one of the Super Six would have his number.”

I don’t know about that. If Dawson turns his game around, ups his work rate and becomes more aggressive, I think he would beat most of the Super Six tournament fighters except for Andre Dirrell and Andre Ward. Those two guys would probably be too much for Dawson. But I see Dawson easily beating Froch based on his superior hand speed, southpaw stance and better boxing skills. I’d like to see the fight. Dawson was beaten by Pascal by an 11 round technical decision after being cut above his right eye from a head butt.

At the time of the stoppage, Dawson had come alive and had Pascal hurt from a couple of exchanges. Dawson looked terrible in the first 10 rounds, as he just wouldn’t exchange for more than a punch or two. He wanted to have a boxing fight, but he needed to jump on Pascal and just let his hands go. I see this as a training issue. Dawson needs to either get a new trainer that can teach him to throw sustained combinations or else his current trainer needs to teach him these things if possible. If not, Froch is probably right about all of the Super Six tourney fighters beating Dawson.

Froch’s standing is a little higher now that Pascal beat Dawson, since Froch defeated a younger Pascal by a 12 round decision two years ago in 2008. It was a good win, but Pascal has improved immensely since then and I don’t see Froch beating him now, not with the kind of hit and run style that Pascal uses now. His style is very hard to beat unless you can jump on him and try and bury him with shots. That’s not easy because he moves well and tends to grab his opponents in a clinch to shut them down. Once separated, he’s able to land fast punches on the outside and move around.

Froch has this to say about Pascal: “Me and him have become like Rocky and Apollo. We’re friendly outside the ring and I wished him all the best before his fight. But, yeah, a rematch is something I would honour the man. Whether we can do a catch weight for the title fight – it’s something I would consider after the Super Six tournament has concluded.” Froch says he would beat Pascal in their rematch. I have my doubts about that. I don’t really see the attraction of this fight for Pascal, because once Froch is eliminated by Arthur Abraham in their Super Six tourney fight on October 2nd, Froch won’t be an appealing opponent for Pascal.