Froch: I’ll butt Ward back if he butts me

By Boxing News - 08/27/2011 - Comments

Image: Froch: I'll butt Ward back if he butts meBy Scott Gilfoid: Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) is promising to turn his October 29th fight against Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) into total chaos if he gets accidentally butted by Ward. Froch says he’ll butt Ward back and make a mess of the fight. That’s really smart, isn’t it? Froch gets head butted accidentally by Ward, and he then loses his senses completely starts head butting who knows what else to poor Ward.

I can just see it. Ward barely taps Froch with his head, and Froch goes bananas, head butting, body slamming, rabbit punching, holding and hitting, the whole works. You know what will happen, don’t you? Froch will disqualified, and Ward will be crowned the rightful king of the Super Six. I think Froch needs to realize this fight isn’t taking place in his home country of England. Fouls will be called here if he starts going primitive on Ward.

This is what Froch said to British writer Steve Bunce at espn.co.uk: “I don’t want you to butt me like you butted Mikkel Kessler. I’m not joking. I don’t want you to butt me, I don’t want the fight to be ruined by cuts. If he butts me, I will butt him back, don’t worry. And then it will turn into madness.”

This whole episode took place at the Matchroom Sports’ head office, and was witnessed by fellow Matchroom fighters Kell Brook and Darren Barker. I hope none of them were influenced by Froch’s bad talk. They’re both younger than him and at an impressionable age. The last thing we need is one or both of them aping what Froch is saying.

Froch acts like he’s the innocent one here, but when you look at his fight against Andre Dirrell in 2009 where Froch went foul happy, body slamming Dirrell, tagging him in the back of the head, and holding and hitting like no tomorrow. All during this foul display, the referee just stood there without even trying to penalize Froch. No fouls, no disqualification, nothing. I just wish we had someone like Jay Nady in there to pull the trigger on Froch when he first lands one of his rabbit specials. The body slam would have been a fight ender. Nady would have had Froch out of there so fast his head would be spinning.



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