By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) failed in his attempt to get his next Super Six tournament fight staged in his home city of Nottingham, England. The 33-year-old Froch was willing to pay Showtime $250,000 of his own money for his bout against Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) on June 4th to take place in Nottingham.

Instead, Froch will have to settle for fighting Johnson at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Johnson, 42, lives in Miami, Florida. However, he’s not a huge draw in the U.S., which has many different fighters to choose from for boxing fans.

In an interview at the telegraph.co.uk, Froch said “Glen’s a Jamaican and so it made sense to explore perhaps him coming to England to the busiest venue. The gate would have been significant and the atmosphere would have been raucous for my homecoming.”

Froch is hard to beat when fighting in Nottingham, as we saw in his first fight of the Super Six tournament against Andre Dirrell. Froch appeared to lose the fight by a significant margin in the minds of many fans, yet Froch was able to win a 12 round decision with two of the European judges scoring the fight for Froch and the Mexican judge scoring it for Dirrell.

Froch lost his second fight of the tournament when he had to fight Mikkel Kessler in Denmark. In Froch’s most recent fight in the tourney, he defeated Arthur Abraham by a 12 round decision in Helsinki, Finland. That fight took place in a neutral venue.

Froch doesn’t have anything to worry about by the Johnson fight taking place in New Jersey. Johnson isn’t a huge draw, so it’s pretty much going to be a like another neutral venue fight for Froch. The fight is going to take place on Sky and Showtime.