By Scott Gilfoid: British super middleweight champion Groge Groves (14-0, 11 KO’s) will be facing Kenny Anderson (15-1, 11 KO’s) on March 16th at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London, UK. This is Anderson’s big chance to put Groves on his duff and end the hype once and for all.

Anderson cannot afford to fight the same way he did last time he mixed it up with Groves in November 2010 in a fight that Anderson lost by a 6th round TKO. Although Anderson did well initially, dropping Groves to the canvas with a peach of a right hand in the 3rd, he completely blew it after that by wasting too much time tracking the feints that Groves was using instead of all out attacking.

The blueprint to beat Groves has already been produced by both James DeGale. I know DeGale lost, but I had him winning 7 rounds to 5, and I don’t think DeGale would ever be given a decision over Groves in the UK, so I dismiss the judges scoring in that fight. DeGale showed in that fight the way to break Groves and that’s by ignoring his silly feints that he likes to use 24/7 and to after nonstop to force him to run and fight. He can’t play the hit and run game nor can he use feints when he’s running for his life and/or having to fight all out.

I happened to see some of the sparring between Dirrell and Groves and noted that Dirrell had Groves completely confused with his pressure. Groves couldn’t pull any of his old tricks with the feints and wasn’t quick enough to run from the much faster Dirrell. As such, Groves was forced to eat multiple hooks and right hands from Dirrell.

So, the key for Anderson in beating Groves is to completely scrap the useless strategy that he used last time in which Anderson sporadically attacked and fought with too much focus on his feints. This time Anderson needs to ignore all that and just go after him to knock him out in the first three rounds. Yeah, I imagine Groves will run for his life and stink up the joint to try and escape the pressure being put on him, but that’s okay. It happens like that. Anderson has to just keep after Groves until he breaks him down and scores the stoppage in the early rounds.

The undercard of this fight appears to be a rather dull one missing stars and it’s still largely incomplete. I’m not exactly thrilled by any of these names.

Sam Webb vs. Matthew Hall
Billy Joe Saunders vs. TBA
Bradley Skeete vs. TBA
Frank Buglioni vs. TBA
Dean Byrne vs. TBA