Froch moving to the U.S

By Boxing News - 10/19/2011 - Comments

Image: Froch moving to the U.SBy Scott Gilfoid: It looks like WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) is leaving the UK to move to the United States to continue his career here. This must be sad news for British fans, but I guess I don’t blame Froch. It’s taken him ages to become a star there, while other fighters have streamed to the top ahead of him. Hopefully there won’t be too many tears, but Froch is better off in America. He’ll make bigger money and live well.

Froch said to the dailymail.co.uk “Yes, you could say I’ll be turning my back on Britain, although we’ll keep a place in Nottingham. I wasn’t backed by Britain even after I won the world title. That fight was on ITV but even then British TV never really got behind me. But now I’ve had a couple of big fights in the U.S, the TV people over there are so supportive.”

It’ll be good to have Froch over here. Who knows? Maybe Froch can become an American and give up his British citizenship? I think Froch would have been a star a long time ago had he been fighting in the U.S instead of Britain. He would be a busier Kelly Pavlik type and maybe even a pay per view star.

The problem for Froch now is he’s facing WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward on December 17th in the Super Six tournament finals and I think it’s going to go badly for Froch. Ward will probably whip him and win by a lopsided 12 round decision, and that will get Froch off to a bad start for his U.S journey.

Froch is one of those types of guys that I think you have to selectively match. You put him in with a slugger, and he does well. But against a talented fighter like Andre Dirrell or Ward, Froch comes down to earth. It’ll be a shutout loss for Froch. The only hope for Froch is that he puts in a good effort in losing and can win fans.



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