Hearn still convinced Andre Ward will come to the UK to fight Froch

By Boxing News - 11/18/2012 - Comments

Image: Hearn still convinced Andre Ward will come to the UK to fight FrochBy Scott Gilfoid: After last night’s fight, IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn was desperately grasping at any possibility that WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward (26-0, 14 KO’s) will come over to the UK to fight Froch in the summer in an outdoor stadium in Nottingham. Froch beat Yusaf Mack by a 3rd round knockout last Saturday night, and Hearn was already looking ahead of Froch’s next fight with Lucian Bute in March towards a rematch with Froch.

Hearn said this about Ward during the post-fight press conference: “We’ll have to ask for an exception from the IBF [International Boxing Federation]. Adonis Stevenson [Froch’s IBF mandatory challenger] will have to wait [if the IBF grants the exception]. We want to fight [Mikkel] Kessler. Andre Ward said on his twitter that he’d fancy a trip to the UK. In think we would come. I want to do a stadium right with Carl Froch. An outdoor fight in the summer. I think the reality is Bute, Stevenson, Kessler and Ward.”

This is what Hearn is grasping at in thinking that Ward would want to come to Froch’s neck of the woods to fight him: “Why do I have to rematch from in the UK,” Ward said on his twitter. “I think I would like to fight in the UK ONE DAY.”

I guess people see what they want to see. I think thought Hearn’s prism he translated what Ward said into what he believed he wanted him to say instead of what Ward actually said. I don’t know how it is in the UK, but when an American says “I would like to fight in the UK one day,” it means they’re not into it. Yeah, we’ll get together one of these days. That means there’s no interest and I guess that statement is seen different from other parts of the world because in the U.S that means, “We’ll get together like in a 100 years.”

The fact is if Froch and Hearn want the Ward rematch then they’re going to have to accept reality and come to Oakland, California for a second helping of whoop a**. That’s just the way it is and the way it aught to be. Ward’s the two-belt champion and Froch is just the holder of the IBF strap. That means Froch has to do the traveling. The sooner he and Hearn accept that reality the better it will be for him. It’s no use getting Froch’s hopes all built up for nothing because it’ll be that much harder for him when Ward smacks him and Hearn upside the head with the truth – that he won’t be coming to the UK for the rematch.



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