By Scott Gilfoid: According to IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute’s promoter Jean Bedard from Interbox, former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch and his team has failed to come up with an offer for a fight with them and Bedard is starting to think Froch is scared to take the fight.
Here’s my question: Will Froch give up his position as the IBF mandatory challenger in order to save his hide for another day or will he man up and take the fight? I mean, Bute is already bending over backwards and practically dropping for the ten count just to make the fight happen with Froch.
Bute, the International Boxing Federation champion, is willing to go to Froch’s home city of Nottingham, England just to make the fight happen. That’s how confident Bute is that he can beat Froch. He knows what he sees and has no problem flying over to the UK to give Froch a whipping in front of his loving British fans in Nottingham.
So what’s holding Froch back? Do you think it might be the talent that Bute possesses that has Froch and his promoter Eddie Hearn hesitating to take the fight. I guess if you see it from a different angle, you might think it’s a wise thing for Froch to skip this fight because it’s a bad match-up that doesn’t favor him at all and another loss for Froch will be his third defeat in his last four fights. He already got spanked by Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward.
You can also pretty much add Andre Dirrell to that list, because a lot of boxing fans think he deserved a win in his fight against Froch in 2009. But the reality is, if Froch gets taken apart and humiliated by Bute, it’s going to really drop Froch’s stock in a major way. Yeah, it’s nice to be brave and all, but it’s also stupid to take fights that you don’t have a high degree of certainty of winning. If I was Froch’s promoter, I’d be reeling him back in and steering him well away from Bute. Froch needs to be steered towards the winner of the April 14th fight between Mikkel Kessler and Robert Stieglitz. That’s a winnable fight for Froch, but the Bute sure isn’t. Anyway, that’s my take on how I’d be looking at this fight if I was Froch’s promoter or if I was Froch. It’s got loss written all over it for Froch.
Back in the real world, I think boxing fans are going to see Froch as having chickened out if he doesn’t take the Bute fight, especially with Bute willing to come all the way over to Nottingham to make the fight. And if WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward steps up and takes the fight with Bute, it’s really going to make Froch look bad as heck. I can see it: Froch says no to Bute, and Ward comes in like superman and accepts the Bute fight and then makes Bute look like an amateur in beating him in front of all his loyal Canadian fans in Montreal, Canada. I cans see Ward knocking Bute out to the point where he wouldn’t even make it to his feet for a long count.
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