By Scott Gilfoid: It looks like Carl Froch is going to try and duplicate the efforts of Librado Andrade in his first fight against IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute by pressuring him to the point where Bute is exhausted and hurt. Froch thinks he can do the same thing, and is going to be putting Bute under an extreme level of pressure from the start to the bloody finish.
Froch said to the BBC Sport “I want to put it on him, put him under some serious pressure and make him feel the pain early on and get him out of there. He’ll either go into his shell and want to go home or come out fighting like a wounded animal.”
Oh brother, Froch sounds like he’s reading a fight novel rather than giving a clear description of what’s going to take place on Saturday. If anything, I see it working in reverse with Bute putting pressure on Froch, and backing him up once Froch tastes some of his power. If Froch thinks Mikkel Kessler and Andre Dirrell punched hard, just wait until he gets a load of Bute’s powerful left hand body smashes. He’s not going to like what he feels from Bute on Saturday.
If Froch does take the fight to Bute like he’s describing, it’s going to make this fight a short and brutal fight with Froch likely walking into either a decapitating head shot from one of Bute’s left uppercuts or a big left hand to the body that sends Froch down in utter agony clutching at his midsection in pain.
When Bute does unload on Froch with one of his crushing body shots, there’s not much Froch can do other than collapse on the canvas and pray that the pain will subside soon enough for him to get back to his feet and resume fighting before the referee reaches the 10 count.
The bad thing is a lot of referees will simply stop the count when they see a fighter stricken from a hard body shot, so even if Froch can get up from the knockdown, he’ll likely only have a few seconds to do so before the referee pulls the trigger and halts the fight. But it matters little even if Froch does get up. Bute will only knock him down again as soon as the action resumes.
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