By William Mackay: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) goes after his old World Boxing Council belt on Saturday night against Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) in their stage 3 part of the Super Six tournament in Helsinki, Finland. If successful in capturing the WBC strap, Froch has bigger plans in the future and wants to go after WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward in the finals of the Super Six tournament.
Froch had this to say in an article at ESPN.co.uk, “I give myself two years,” the 33-year-old said. “The weight is easy for me to make and I’m not showing any signs of wear and tear. A win would put Froch back on course to win the Super Six and he has designs on stepping up in weight and emulating Joe Calzaghe. I’ve at least three more fights in this competition and then I might step up to light-heavyweight and fight [Jean] Pascal to become a two-weight world champion. Joe Calzaghe stepped up from super-middleweight to light-heavyweight to become a two-weight world champion and I could do the same. I’ll probably fight [Andre] Ward in the final of the Super Six and that would be for both the WBC and WBA titles, for the undisputed world championship.”
Froch needs to focus first on trying to just get by Abraham on Saturday night. This is a big fight for Froch, as he’s coming off a 12 round decision loss to Mikkel Kessler in April and is facing the hardest puncher in the Super Six tournament in Abraham. Froch could just as easily lose this fight and find himself having lost his last two fights as he enters the semifinals of the tournament. It may be just a pipe dream for Froch the hope of facing and beating Ward in the finals. There’s 41-year-old Glen Johnson and Abraham. Either one of those fighters may be enough to ruin Froch’s grand vision before he can realize it. Froch could then move up to light heavyweight and face WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal or whoever is the main guy at that weight by the time Froch moves up, but it won’t mean as much if Froch comes into the light heavyweight division licking his wounds from three consecutive losses in the Super Six tournament.
Froch might be better off fighting at that weight, because the light heavyweight division has few stars and it’s a wide open division for a fighter like Froch. It wouldn’t matter if he came in with three losses in a row, he’d still be an immediate threat to the top fighters at that weight.
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