By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s chances of emerging at the Super Six tournament winner took a huge, and I mean huge, drop today when it was learned that Froch will be facing World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) on October 29th in their finals bout at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. That’s it, Froch has pretty much no chance of winning this fight as far as I’m concerned. It’s over with.

Froch’s main chance at winning was if the fight were to take place in his home city of Nottingham, England. If Froch could landed the fight there he might have been able to get another Andre Dirrell-esque type decision where he gets the nod despite being out-boxed all night long. I had Dirrell winning that fight by an 8 rounds to 3 with 1 even score.

Froch would be hard to beat in Nottingham, I must admit. But put him in Atlantic City, and it’s going to be like Superman being exposed to krytonite. Froch is going to lose his powers and won’t even come close to winning the fight. I predict Froch won’t win one round, and rightly so, Ward is a much better boxer. Froch is just a decent puncher and not even a huge one. He doesn’t have the hand speed, he doesn’t have the power and he doesn’t have the smooth silky skills of a fighter like Dirrell.

Froch needs to be like Dirrell to beat Ward. Froch is more like Pawel Wolak, while Ward is similar to Floyd Mayweather Jr. You can’t expect a slow, wide open brawler like Froch to come out on top against a slick fighter like Ward. It’s just not going to happen. So the news that the Froch-Ward fight will be taking place in Atlantic City is practically the early crowning of Ward as the Super Six tourney king.