Haye: Carl Froch to be Britain’s next unified world champion

By Boxing News - 07/31/2011 - Comments

By Scott Gilfoid: David Haye hasn’t given up his predicting the future for fellow Brits, even through his own fortunes have taken a death spiral recently with his humiliating one-sided 12 round flop-filled decision loss to IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko earlier this month on July 2nd.

Haye is now hoping that WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch can bring Britain a change of luck in his next Super Six tournament fight against WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward on October 29th. This is it for Froch, the moment of truth. Haye said this on his twitter page: “Carl Froch to be Britain’s next unified world champion.”

It seems more of a case of Haye wishing that Froch wins the fight than him having any real chance of doing that. But it is touching that Haye is pulling for his over-matched friend in this fight. I’m sure that kind gesture will be touching for Froch, but unfortunately it’s not going to have any bearing to what happens in the fight. Froch isn’t going to have Haye out there holding his hand on October 29th, telling it’s going to be okay and all that kind of blather. Froch is going to be sinking on his own in this fight.

I don’t expect him to pull a Haye and start flopping left and right, because Froch is one of those guys that is going to stick his chin out and fight until the bitter end. It will be bitter for Froch unfortunately. However, he can still pat himself on the back that he got this far in the tournament. I mean I don’t think he deserves to have gotten this far, because I see him having been beaten by Andre Dirrell in his first fight, but that’s besides the point. Froch is going to out like a leaky ship right into the middle of a perfect storm.

He’s not going to know what hit him. Ward is so much faster, so much more skilled and so far out of Froch’s league that he’ll be lucky if it goes the full 12. I can just imagine what Haye will be thinking as he watches Froch get thoroughly beaten round after round. He’ll probably want to give him some useless advice like ‘Cover up, don’t let him hit you so much.’ It won’t help. Froch will get hammered no matter what. He doesn’t have the hand speed or the talent to be competitive in this fight and his fate really is to be royally dominated.



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