Froch: I’m like a caveman ready to tear someone apart

By Boxing News - 11/19/2011 - Comments

Image: Froch: I'm like a caveman ready to tear someone apartBy Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) figures he’s got the power advantage over WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) and thinks that with that advantage he’ll come out on top next month on December 17th in their Super Six finals bout at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Froch told Sky Sports News “I’m like a caveman ready to tear someone apart. I’m going to walk forward, hit him hard and often, and I just feel with his lack of punching power he’ll struggle to hold me off.”

It’s kind of sad how deluded Froch is. He seems to think that just because he can plod forward and take punishment that he’s going to be able to beat Ward. It’s not going to happen. It takes more than being caveman-like to beat a quality fighter like Ward. If all it took was to beat Ward was to be a primitive caveman than Ward would have lost his fight against Arthur Abraham in the Super Six tourney. It takes more than just brute strength. You have to have talent with a capital T, and Ward has an abundance of that quality.

But what we saw instead was Ward dominating Abraham by a lopsided 12 round decision, winning by the scores of 120-108, 118-110 and 118-111. I feel sorry for Froch, because he’s going to lose badly next month and his dreams of being the best fighter in the super middleweight division well be flushed down the toilet with the loss to Ward. Oh, I’m sure Froch can rebuild and pick up some wins over guys like Glen Johnson and Abraham. But when it comes to facing the best in the division in fights against Ward, Lucian Bute, Mikkel Kessler and Andre Dirrell, Froch is going to struggle and lose.



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