by Scott Gilfoid: Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) could get a chance to win back his old World Boxing Council super middleweight title against Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 Ko’s) in their stage 3 Super Six tournament fight on October 2nd, in Monaco. Mikkel Kessler, who beat Froch to take his WBC title last April, has now pulled out of the Super Six tournament because of a bad eye injury. Kessler won’t be able to fight again for another nine months so that his ailing eye can heal. This in turn will leave his WBC title available possibly for Froch to fight for it against Abraham. Naturally, it’s probably not how Froch would like to have won it back but I’m pretty sure he’ll take it if he beats Abraham.

Of course, there’s a very good chance that Froch is going to get sparked out by Abraham but he could in theory beat Abraham and maybe get the title. But even then, I see it as nothing more than Froch keeping the belt warm for a little while before he takes on either Andre Ward or Andre Dirrell and promptly losses his WBC title again. But it would still be an accomplishment if Froch could beat Abraham and win back his lost title. There’s a small chance that Kessler and Froch could meet up again some day in the future when Froch is either eliminated or after he wins the tournament.Frankly, I don’t see Froch winning it.

Kessler says that he wants to fight the winner of the Super Six tournament next year in April or May. I don’t see Kessler being ready to take on top quality opposition in his first fight back from a long layoff, so I think that was mostly just blather. If Kessler does come back in April or May, he’ll be facing a lower level fighter and not the Super Six tournament winner. I can just see that. Kessler is coming off an eye injury and long layoff and he immediately gets thrown in with Ward or Dirrell and has eyes torn apart again. And then he’d be right back where started. if Kessler is serious about wanting to fight the winner of the Super Six tournament, then once he finishes losing to whoever that is, Kessler can then look to a fight against Froch in 2012. I don’t know how much either of them would have by then. Froch would be 35, and Kessler around 33. That’s pretty old. It might not be interesting by then.