By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch is counting on a lot of Brits to show interest in his rematch against WBA champ Mikkel Kessler if Froch and his promoter Eddie Hearn can successfully negotiate the fight with the Dane. Right now it’s up in the air whether that fight will take place, but Froch thinks it will do really well if it does.
Froch said to thisisnottingham.co.uk “Everything is in place for what will be the biggest fight in Britain in the last 10 years. It’s the fight everybody wants. The television companies are happy and we have a couple of venues.”
Hearn gave Kessler and offer and right now they’re waiting to see if Kessler and his promoter accept the offer. The good news for Froch is that they haven’t shot down his offer or kicked it back to him with a counter offer. The bad news is they could still do this, and in that case Hearn and Froch might have to sweeten the deal by coming up with a little more green stuff presumably or maybe a change of venue.
I honestly don’t see the Froch-Kessler 2 rematch as being a big deal like Froch thinks it will be, and certainly not a fight that “Everybody wants,” as he refers to it. This is an old played out fight as far as I’m concerned. Kessler already beat Froch, so basically it’s just those two covering old ground. Where’s the excitement in that? Kessler didn’t get jobbed and neither did Froch, and I don’t see any point in them fighting again when it’s already been done before.
The guy that Froch should be fighting again is Andre Dirrell. Now that’s a fight that the American and British public would be chomping at the bit to see, I think. Dirrell got royally jobbed in his loss to Froch in 2009, and this would be Froch’s big chance to prove that he deserved the victory.
I had Dirrell dominating Froch and winning lopsided 12 round decision in that fight. I thought Froch should have been disqualified for the numerous fouls that he made in that fight. But as far as the Froch-Kessler rematch goes, I don’t think it’s going to be nearly as big a fight as Froch thinks it will be. If the fight gets made, I just hope Froch isn’t too disappointed in the fan turn-out isn’t more than 10,000, which is pretty much what Froch usually sells out for his fight.
It would be bad if Hearn rented out a 20,000 seat outdoor football stadium in London and then had to eat the 10,000 seats that he didn’t sell. That would be a huge financial disaster to say the least. If I were Hearn, I’d play it safe and look for a 10,000 seat stadium near Nottingham.
You can’t make the fight too far away from Nottingham because I don’t know that Froch can sell tickets outside of Nottingham, his home city. It would be bad if Hearn and Froch got ahead of themselves and booked a huge 20,000 seat stadium in London and then less than 10,000 fans showed up. I don’t know how many of Froch’s Nottingham fans would want to travel all the way to London to see him fight.
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