By William Mackay: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) signed on with Matchroom Sports as his new promoter today, replacing his old promoter Mick Hennessy. Froch figures that he should have long ago had his fights shown on Sky Sports and is only now getting a shot with them after years of toiling away in relative obscurity while fellow British champions Amir Khan and David Haye regularly had their fights shown on Sky.
Froch sees himself with only five more fights left in his career, which could be Froch giving a conservative estimate. However, things could suddenly turn for the worse for Froch if he gets beaten by his next Super Six tournament opponent Glen Johnson or suffer a loss to Andre Ward in the finals of the tournament. A loss to either fighter would be a huge blow for Froch, because it stop the little momentum that he has with his career. He barely beat Andre Dirrell by a questionable 12 round decision in his first fight of the Super Six tournament in 2009, and then suffered a loss to Mikkel Kessler in his second fight of the tourney. Froch says “If I was trying to be realistic now I’d say five more fights.”
In his last fight, Froch defeated a smaller Arthur Abraham, who really looks out of place fighting in the super middleweight division. Next, Froch will be facing 42-year-old Glen Johnson, a fighter who is coming down in weight from light heavyweight to fight in the Super Six tourney. Froch is favored in that fight but a loss would be a crippling blow for Froch. Once the Super Six tournament gets done, things don’t get any easier for Froch, as he wants to fight a rematch with Jean Pascal and would also like to fight Sergio Martinez, Lucian Bute and Mikkel Kessler. Froch could easily lose all of those fights.
At that point, it really would be the end for Froch unless he wants to stubbornly stick it out like some aging fighters do when they can no longer beat the best.
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