By Tom Graves: ‘The Cobra’ himself said he may well move up to the light heavyweight division, of course this all depends on the outcome of The Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament. The Nottingham Super middleweight has a bout set for June 4th against Glen Johnson which is a semi-final and if victorious he will face the winner of the other semi-final Andre Ward v Arthur Abraham.

The odds stack up to the final being between Andre Ward & Carl Froch. Froch stated “I’ll probably fight Ward in the final of the Super Six and that would be for both the WBC and WBA titles, for the undisputed world championship.”

So putting the Super middleweight division aside what is out there for Carl in the 175 pound division?

Perhaps, a second bout against Jean Pascal. In 2008 Froch faced the canadian for the vacant WBC super middleweight title and won after a very hard-fought 12-round battle, the action was closer in competition than the scorecards showed 116-112, 117-111 and 118-110 in Froch’s favour.

A rematch would be an exciting spectacle seeing as Pascal and Froch have made a promise to face each other again in the future and Pascal has been successful since stepping up in weight and became the WBC light heavyweight champion defending the title four times, including a bout against ‘Bad’ Chad Dawson, and most recently a controversial majority draw against Bernard Hopkins.

An all British clash could be a possibility for Froch against young interim WBO world titlist Nathan Cleverly, the 23 year old Welshman has been rising up the light-heavy ranks since becoming the commonwealth champion in 2008. This match-up would be the closest thing boxing fans would get as the equivalent of a Froch v Calzaghe fight that never happened.

Cleverly has some qualities and similarities reminiscent of Calzaghe, being welsh, quick handed, possessing knockout power (Calzaghe knocked out a lot of opponents earlier on in his career) and looking similar in looks and attitude within the sport.

In his next fight Cleverly faces without doubt his toughest test to date in Juergen Braehmer for the German’s WBO light-heavyweight title on May 21st. If all goes well, down the line I see Froch versus Cleverly a very exciting potential fight for British boxing.

Enzo Maccarinelli has recently made the decision to drop to light-heavyweight in order to try an resurrect his career. The 6ft 4inch Welshman is undoubtedly past his best but if he somehow succeeds at this new weight it would make for an interesting bout against Froch.

Chad Dawson, the 28 year old southpaw is just coming of his first defeat to Pascal by a technical decision in the 11th round, when Froch does move up the difference in their boxing styles would make a potential fight extremely interesting. Dawson’s right handed technical text book style versus Froch’s cagey, low guard defense, slugging style of punching.

Bernard Hopkins, the legend is now 46 years old but is still up their with the best. He recently fought his way to a draw against Pascal after going down in the 1st and again in the 3rd. Many people feel ‘The Executioner’ was robbed that night so following the controversy of the fight, WBC chairman Jose Sulaiman sanctioned an immediate rematch.

Depending on the result of the rematch of course, I believe a Froch v Hopkins fight would be the best match up for years within the light-heavyweight division. Not only would these two men’s styles clash but their personalities, I could imagine both of them involved in a war of words pre-fight.

I am looking forward to watching Froch compete at light-heavyweight just as his nemesis Calzaghe did after his reign at Super-middleweight to see how successful Froch can be. For now ‘The Cobra’ has the Super six tournament to win but the future of Carl Froch at Light Heavyweight is an interesting spectacle.