By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) is going to need three to four weeks for his injured back to heal before he’ll be ready to take on Arthur Abraham in the Super Six tournament. Froch injured his back somehow in training.

And the injury hasn’t helped Showtime’s tournament, because we’ve already had Mikkel Kessler drop out recently and the two talented Americans Andre Ward and Andre Dirrell can’t agree on a venue for their scheduled fight this month on September 25th.

Froch’s injury was perfect in terms of keeping up with how bad things have gotten recently. All we can hope now is that Froch’s injury doesn’t linger and cause him to miss even more time. When you’re dealing with back injuries, these things can go on forever. I read Froch as the type that won’t get in the ring unless he feels 100% healthy.

He doesn’t want anything to take away from his performance and give his opponent a small edge. The problem is when you get injuries, the time that you miss in training causes you become rusty and you lose a certain percentage of your ability because you’re not training. We could see that with Froch.

This perhaps the worst possible time for Froch, because he’s taking on a knockout artist in Arthur Abraham and there’s a good chance Froch is going to get knocked out. Even in his best condition, Froch would have big problems with Abraham because of his power and due to Froch’s bad habit of fighting with his hands down by his waist.

It could be that Froch is starting to show his age with this injury. When you get up there around your mid 30s, things start to fall apart on you. We could be seeing that with Froch and his back ailment.