By Scott Gilfoid: Before his last fight against Arthur Abraham in November 2010, Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) was belly aching about possibly retiring if he were to lose the fight. Froch’s thoughts were that if he couldn’t compete at the highest level he didn’t want to continue fighting.
As things turned out, Froch was able to beat Abraham in their fight, in part due to Abraham having over-trained for the fight and not fought the right kind of fight. Now, Froch is facing 42-year-old Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) in the semi-finals of the Super Six tournament in April or May.
Losing to a fighter as old as Johnson would be a huge embarrassment for Froch, and good indication that he can’t cut it at the highest levels of the sport. If there’s any doubts at all that Froch couldn’t handle it against the upper echelon in the division it will be proven once again when Johnson is dominated in the finals by Andre Ward later on this year.
For Froch, I really don’t know how he would take a loss to Johnson. Unless he somehow convinces himself that he really should have won the fight, like Froch did with his 12 round decision loss to Mikkel Kessler in April. Froch stubbornly resisted acknowledging that he got beat by the better man, and insisted that he would have won the fight had it taken place in his home city of Nottingham, England.
The sad thing is Froch is probably right. He likely would have won a home town decision against Kessler, just like Froch won what appeared to be home town decision against the talented Andre Dirrell in October 2009. But I wonder if Froch will hang up the old gloves if he’s beaten up by Johnson? My guess is Froch will continue to fight and will have some excuse for the loss.
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