By Scott Gilfoid: WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (46-2, 35 KO’s) doesn’t like the fact that IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (30-2, 22 KO’s) made excuses after he got whipped by him three years ago in Herning, Denmark.
Froch lost the fight to Kessler by a clear cut 12 round unanimous decision, but then afterwards he blamed the defeat in part on an ash cloud that slowed his progress to Denmark. Kessler didn’t like the excuses and saw Froch as just someone that couldn’t come to terms with the fact that he got beat by the better fighter.
Kessler said “I want him to admit I won the fight because I thought so.”
Froch said “If that fight, punch for punch, had happened in Nottingham, I would have won.”
How sad, Froch pulling the old Nottingham card out of his deck to explain how he would have won the fight another universe of time.
It’s too bad, Froch, because the fight didn’t take place in Nottingham, and never will. It took place in Denmark, and you lost.
I would never expect Froch to make the Nottingham excuse because after his controversial win over Andre Dirrell in Nottingham four years ago, the last thing I would have expected from Froch is for him to mention how he was given a decision that many boxing fans to this day saw as a hometown decision.
I know that fight is probably foggy in the minds of many boxing fans, but they need to watch it again on Youtube, and they’ll know what I’m talking about. Dirrell dominated Froch in Nottingham, and Froch won.
Now Froch is saying he would have beaten Kessler if the fight had taken place in Nottingham, and of course you have to agree with him. That’s an argument Froch can’t lose. Heck, I think he’d have beaten Andre Ward as well if the fight had been staged in Nottingham, but that doesn’t mean that he he would deserved the decision. But I still think Froch would have won.
Kessler shouldn’t waste his breath asking for Froch to admit that he lost the fight because it’s pointless. I mean, there was that ash cloud that halted his progress, right? Oh brother, I thought I’d heard them all until that beauty was produced.
Froch and Kessler will be fighting on May 25th at the O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom. I hope Kessler has a great fight because I have a feeling it’s going to be tough on him if the fight goes to the scorecards.
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