Hearn wants Froch-Ward 2 in 2013

By Boxing News - 11/14/2012 - Comments

Image: Hearn wants Froch-Ward 2 in 2013By Scott Gilfoid: Despite the fact that his fighter Carl Froch was completely schooled in a one-sided fight by American WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward, Eddie Hearn says he’s interested in putting that fight together again in the United States.

It doesn’t make sense from Froch and Hearn’s perspective because nothing has changed since them. Froch is still the same fighter that Ward dominated last December and a rematch between them would only be worse for Froch and Hearn the second time around because Ward won’t have a broken left hand.

Hearn said to Sky Sports “You know the U.S networks want to make that Bute fight, would like the Kessler fight and I’m hearing out of all their mouths that they really want Froch-Ward II next year. That’s a fight that could be heading again to America. we’ll do all we can.”

In the absence of any other appealing fights then I can understand a Froch vs. Ward II fight taking place. However, I’d much rather see Froch give Andre Dirrell a rematch and then take on his brother Anthony Dirrell. I’d also prefer Froch fight Adonis Stevenson. He is after all Froch’s mandatory challenger and he went through all the effort to defeat Don George in an eliminator bout. It would be a pity to see Froch skip that fight and then the International Boxing Federation would be put in the position to stand by and either do nothing about it and make their eliminator bout a meaningless thing or they could strip Froch and let Stevenson claim the trap.

But I don’t think it’s interesting to see Froch fight Ward again. The way that Ward beat Froch you can tell that it will always be that way no matter how many times they fight. It wasn’t competitive, so I don’t see why HBO or Showtime would want to waste valuable American television time by setting up another Froch-Ward mismatch. Please spare us of having to watch Ward whip Froch again. I’d rather see Sergio Martinez fight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. again in a terrible mismatch then I would Ward fight Froch and spanking him for a second time.

Of course none of this will matter at one bit if Froch can’t beat Yusaf Mack on Saturday night and if he can’t defeat Lucian Bute in their rematch next year sometime. If Froch loses those fights then no way will there be a Froch vs. Ward rematch.



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