By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) says that his training is going well and his injured back is getting better. In his column at thisisnottingham.co.uk, Froch says “Training is going really well. I’ve got a few niggles and knocks, the normal type of stuff that you pick up week to week. But the injured back is right on track – and everything is going to plan. Having done so much work in the last camp, finding my stride again has been easy.”

Froch will be facing Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) next month on November 27th at the Hartwall Arena, in Helsinki, Finland. Froch and Abraham are both coming off of losses in their last Super Six tournament fights and neither of them looked at all good.

Froch already postponed the fight with Abraham due to a back injury, he said. It’s hoped that Froch’s back problem doesn’t flare up again and cause him to pull out of the fight for a second time. Abraham thinks Froch is mentally damaged from the Kessler loss, as Froch keeps harping about the loss and thinks he should have won.

Froch already won a controversial 12 round decision over Andre Dirrell last year in the opening bout of the Super Six tourney. Froch looked horrible throughout – slow, wild and easy to hit. However, the European judges handed Froch the decision, which few fans outside of the UK agreed with.

In Froch’s column he says “Firstly, the news that one of my previous victims, Andre Dirrell, has withdrawn from his fight with Andre Ward in the Showtime Super Six tournament, citing neurological reasons.”

While Froch is correct about Dirrell pulling out of the Super Six tourney due to neurological problems, I would hardly call Dirrell one of Froch’s victims. If anything, you could call Dirrell a victim of a bad decision but not a victim in the sense that Froch took care of him in the ring in any real way.

Dirrell looked amazing in that fight and I thought it was one of the best performances I’ve seen from a fighter. He showed defensive brilliance, making Froch miss all night long, and lighting fast hand speed.

Froch says “He [Kessler] borrowed the belt [the WBC super middleweight title] from me earlier this year), it will still be good to get the green strap around my waist again.”

I kind of doubt Froch will do anything other than get knocked out by Abraham next month. Froch is too easy to hit, too slow, and too much of a plodder to beat a monstrous puncher like Abraham. I see Abraham putting Froch out of his misery and sending him off to another loss, but this time by a crushing knockout.