By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) has got a tough fight coming up on June 4th against veteran Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) in the semifinals of the Super Six tournament at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Instead of focusing at the task at hand, Froch has been talking about who he might be fighting in the Super Six finals and who he’d like to fight after the Super Six is completed.

Froch has listed Sergio Martinez, Jean Pascal and Lucian Bute as some of the guys he’d like to take on once the tourney is over. However, I get the impression that Froch sees the Johnson fight as a done deal, like it’s a fight that he’s pretty guaranteed to win. In looking at the gift decision that Froch got in his first fight of the Super Six tournament against Andre Dirrell and then looking at how he got royally spanked by Mikkel Kessler in his second fight of the tourney, I honestly don’t know how Froch could be looking past anyone.

The only real win that I can see Froch having gotten in the tourney was against a depleted Arthur Abraham, who was coming off of a bad 11 round schooling by the talented Dirrell in his fight before that. Really, Froch could easily have a record of 1-2 in the Super Six tournament competition instead of 2-1. That’s hardly impressive going into a fight with a guy like Johnson who can really bring it and expose all of Froch’s weaknesses.

Froch doesn’t have any kind of inside game to speak of. He’s not a good inside fighter. Look at Froch’s fights, he can’t fight on the inside to save his life. We saw in his bout with Dirrell that Froch was resigned to holding and hitting and landing a lot of questionable shots in clinches. Those kinds of things will lead to Froch losing points and possibly being disqualified if he tries them in his fight with Johnson because the fight will be taking place in the U.S. and those kinds of tactics aren’t allowed here.

If Johnson stays in close with Froch, it’s going to leave Froch in a bad position where he’ll have to either develop some inside fighting ability on the fly or he’s going to get beaten. Since it takes years to develop quality inside fighting ability, I can’t see Froch doing well against Johnson if he keeps it on the inside. I see Froch floundering and angry and frustrated. Hopefully, he doesn’t come unglued and start body slamming and fouling like mad when/if things don’t right for him against Johnson. I’d had to see him have a meltdown in what would be his last fight of the Super Six tourney.