By Scott Gilfoid: If you listen to or ready a lot of former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s interviews in the months following his 12 round decision loss to Mikkel Kessler in April, you’ll notice that Froch seems unable to shut his yap about the loss to Kessler. It seems like he hasn’t come to terms with his loss and hasn’t mentally put the defeat behind him and moved on from it. Froch thinks he lost a home town decision to Kessler, despite the vast majority of fans disagreeing with Froch and thinking that Kessler rightfully won the fight.
This hasn’t been lost on Arthur Abraham, Froch’s next Super Six tournament opponent, whom he faces on November 27th, in Helsinki, Finland. Abraham thinks that Froch still has a lot of unresolved issues about his loss to Kessler and thinks that it’s messing with Froch’s mind. Abraham says in an article at The Daily Mirror, “It is all mental with him [Froch]. The Kessler fight is still in the head of Froch.” Abraham may be right, but whatever the case, Froch needs to pipe down about the Kessler fight, and learn his mistakes from it and move on instead of wishing the outcome had been different.
Abraham is going to take Froch’s unprotected head clean off unless Froch learns from the mistakes he made in the Kessler fight, and in the bout with Americans Jermain Taylor and Andre Dirrell. Froch is getting hit way too much for his own good. These aren’t just glancing shots. Froch is getting hit cleanly with shots that are sailing past his gloves, which for some odd reason are down by his waist.
The dude needs to get a clue and realize he doesn’t have cat-like reflexes to get away with fighting with his hands down by his waist like Dirrell and Roy Jones Jr. sometimes do. Dirrell, who is probably fastest fighter in the super middleweight division, holds his hands up by his head much of the time. He’s smart enough to know what could happen if he fights with his hands down too often.
Froch can beat Abraham if he improves his atrocious defensive skills. I personally don’t think Froch can at this point in his career. Old dogs can’t learn new tricks. They actually can, but in Froch’s case, I don’t think he can because I see him being stubborn about it and not recognizing that he has a problem with his game. As such, Abraham is going to knock Froch’s head into the next world. That’s my prediction.
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