By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) is set to face WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) in the finals of the Super Six tournament after Froch defeated 42-year-old Glen Johnson in a tough fight on June 4th. Froch is a slow fighter that does well against other slow guys but who struggles against speed and talent.

We saw that in Froch’s very, very questionable win over Andre Dirrell in his first fight of the Super Six tournament, a fight in which Froch could barely lay a glove on Dirrell the entire fight. It was like Froch was fighting with a blindfold on the entire 12 rounds. We also saw Froch get beaten by Mikkel Kessler in his second fight of the tourney. Kessler beat Froch with speed, pressure and combinations. The guys that Froch did beat in the Super Six tournament, Arthur Abraham and Glen Johnson, were slow and threw few punches. Froch does good against fighter that don’t throw punches, because it allows him to dictate the pace. But you put him in with a Dirrell, Ward or Kessler, and Froch looks out of his class.

In eastsideboxing.com’s On the Ropes Boxing Radio, Froch said “He [Ward] doesn’t fully know how to take me on, but one thing he needs to realize is he’s getting beat when we meet…He’s going to see the very best of Carl Froch, the hard punching venomous Cobra. He needs to start worrying because he’s in serious trouble.”

I think Froch is delusional. This is going to be Ward’s easiest fight of the tournament by far. Froch isn’t as good as Kessler, and we saw that when Kessler beat Froch. And we know that Ward easily beat Kessler. We saw Froch look like a rank amateur against the talented Dirrell, a fight in which Froch got away with a massive amount of fouling. Froch won’t be permitted to foul Ward in the United States. That’s basically the only chance I can see Froch having to win the fight. If Froch could body slam and rabbit punch Ward all night long, yeah, I can see Froch maybe winning. But this fight will have an engaged referee working the bout and he’s not going to let Froch get away with turning the fight into a wild anything goes MMA type fight. Ward is going to be fighting Froch under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules in their Super Six tourney finals bout. As such, none of this rough stuff from Froch will be allowed.