By Scott Gilfoid: Enzo Calzaghe, the father and trainer for former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, says he doesn’t see IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch as a great fighter but rather just a merely a good fighter.
Enzo told Sky Sports News “He’s [Froch] a good fighter, a good fighter….He can get plan A or plan B; he can’t find plan C…Greatness is a different level.”
True, very true. Froch is just another good fighter, nothing spectacular. There’s nothing that stands out about Froch other than his ability to absorb punishment on his big lantern chin. That takes a special quality to be able to walk though the kind of shots that Froch does each fight, but I don’t call that greatness.
Froch was exposed in his fights against Andre Ward, Jermain Taylor, Andre Dirrell, Jean Pascal and Mikkel Kessler that he’s not a great fighter. I agree there isn’t a plan C for Froch. I’d go one level further by saying I don’t think Froch has a plan B either other than turning to rough house tactics like the ones he used in his questionable win over Dirrell in 2009.
Froch didn’t really adapt in that fight other than turning it physical and that should have been stopped if the referee had it on the ball in that fight. I didn’t see a plan B from Froch in his losses to Kessler and Ward. He basically stuck with the same plan the entire fight and ended up getting beaten in both fights.
Froch faces Yusaf Mack on November 17th in Nottingham. We’ll get to see if Froch can find a plan B when Mack starts feeding him power shots to the head and gets him in trouble. If Froch can survive the hailstorm of punches and comeback to win the fight then maybe we can say he has a plan B, but I’m not counting on it happening.
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