Froch says Abraham has a crude fighting style

By Boxing News - 11/19/2010 - Comments

By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) has another tough fight coming up for him on November 27th in his stage 3 Super Six bout against the monstrous puncher Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) at the Hartwall Arena, in Helsinki, Finland.

Froch, 33, has never been in with a fighter that even remotely punches as hard as Abraham does. Those closest that Froch has come to facing a big puncher like Abraham was when he faced Andre Dirrell, and staggered on a couple of occasions by Dirrell’s powerful left hand bombs.

In looking at that fight and seeing how Froch was hurt by Dirrell twice, it leaves one with the impression that Froch has no chance of surviving the Abraham fight without getting knocked out. It might be possible if Froch adopts Abraham’s high guard or if he runs the entire fight like a rabbit.

However, Froch doesn’t have the wheels to run. His foot speed is poor and moves around the ring sluggishly, like a sputtering car that’s running on fumes. So running is out of the question. Perhaps if Froch studied the great Rocky Marciano and took a look at his ostrich defense he used in his 1970 fictional Super Fight with Muhammad Ali, Froch might be able to keep his head protected enough to where Abraham won’t be able to connect with anything big enough to stop him.

Of course, with Froch fighting with his head being hidden near the canvas, he’ll lose the fight by a lopsided decision, but at least he wouldn’t be knocked out.
In an article at thisisnottingham.co.uk, Froch said “He [Abraham] is very crude in his style and not pretty to watch. He chucks the first six rounds away and then steps it up in the second half when he is full of beans.”

You could say the same thing about Froch in terms of being a crude fighter. He’s not a stylistic fighter like Dirrell, and not really smooth on his feet, fast or a real technician. Like Abraham, Froch winds up with his shots and looks for knockout with almost every punch excluding his jabs.

The both of them are like carbon copies of each in the way that they swing for the fences when they punch. The only difference I can see is that Abraham hits a lot harder and has one punch knockout power. Froch is the type that needs to land a lot of shots for him to get a knockout.



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