By Scott Gilfoid: With Andre Dirrell still temporarily on the shelf until September, WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) is the best fighter in the super middleweight division right now at this time. On October 29th, Ward is going to knock off the current WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) in the finals of the Super Six tournament in New Jersey.

Ward thinks that some boxing fans are under a false understanding about him and about Froch, according to an interview by Lem Sattersfield at Ringtv. Ward bristles at what some people think he’ll against Froch by fighting him in a “Slick” manner to avoid getting hit and tying to use his boxing skills to beat him without trading. Ward doesn’t see himself trying to avoid exchanges to keep from getting hit or roughed up by Froch.

I totally agree with Mr. Ward. He’s not going to play it safe and fight a finesse type of fight plan against Froch. All you have to do is look at Ward’s fights against Sakio Bika, Allan Green and Mikkel Kessler to know that he doesn’t look to not get hit. He likes to get in the thick of things and fight wars. It’s not Ward’s fault that he’s blessed with amazing hand speed, an extraordinary inside game that rivals the great Bernard Hopkins and that he’s good at getting out of the way of incoming fire.

Ward is so good that he can fight wars against big punchers and beat them at their own game. Frankly, I don’t see Froch as a huge puncher. He’s got power, but he’s not a huge puncher by any means. I see Kessler, Dirrell and even Green as having better overall power compared to Froch. What Froch is good at is throwing arm punches without winding up. He’s a lot like Vitali Klitschko with his ability to do.

Froch obviously does this to compensate for his lack of hand speed, because it takes him too long to wind up with his shots. But Froch is still too slow to land his punches against skilled fighters with speed like Dirrell and Ward. I see Froch hitting air all night long against Ward on October 29th, and losing every round in a lopsided 12 round decision loss.