By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KO’s) will be making an announcement this coming Monday on August 20th about who his next opponent will be in November. This is supposed to be a tune-up/stay busy fight for the 35-year-old Froch, so one can’t really expect much in terms of quality. The fight will take place in Froch’s home city of Nottingham, in the UK.

Unbeaten super middleweight contender Thomas Oosthuizen had been in the running for the fight, but his management decided not to take the fight because the money wasn’t right. Oosthuizen, perhaps a future world champion, would have had to take his chances at trying to win a decision in Nottingham where in the past Andre Dirrell lost a controversial decision over Froch in 2009.

Froch’s promoter is quoted by fightnews.com as saying “The [Lucian] Bute fight night will go down in history as one of the greatest nights in British boxing history. Carl is chomping at the bit to get back into the ring and feel the roar of the Nottingham fans that he loves so much.”

If the Froch-Bute fight is all it takes to be one of the greatest victories in British boxing history then that’s not exactly a great commentary about British boxing, is it? Froch beat an unproven champion in former IBF super middleweight champion Bute. Before that fight, Bute had taken a lot of stick for having never really faced anyone during his six years as the IBF champ. It’s hard to imagine how Bute was able to go that long without fighting the top fighters like Andre Ward, Joe Calzaghe, Andre Dirrell, Anthony Dirrell, and Mikkel Kessler. But the victory really wasn’t a sign of how great a night it was in British boxing history, but perhaps more so an indication of Bute being over-hyped and unproven.

Froch is a decent fighter but he’s already been exposed in losses to Ward, Kessler and his highly controversial, foul-plagued decision over Dirrell while fighting at home in Nottingham, England. With Froch, you really can’t tell whether he’ll win or loss when he’s matched against quality fighters. I expect Froch to win his next fight in November, but that’s because Hearn is likely to dig up a soft opponent for him so that Froch can keep winning a little while longer. Froch has a rematch coming next year against Bute in Montreal, Canada, and there’s no telling what will happen there.