By Scott Gilfoid: Trainer Adam Booth feels that his fighter Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves (17-0, 13 KO’s) doesn’t need a fight against IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch in order to make his mark in boxing. Booth believes that Groves can get there even without a signature victory over the 35-year-old Froch.
Booth said to the westlondonsport.com “If the Froch fight happens further down the line then great…we won’t be upset if it doesn’t happen. George’s career is about so much more than Carl Froch.”
Perhaps it’s for the best that Groves doesn’t fight Froch anytime soon if ever because right now I think he’d get flattened. Groves is still fighting like he’s lost his senses completely. It’s like he doesn’t have any ring IQ and just goes out looking to throw a massive amount of shots hoping to score a KO. I don’t see much in the way of technique or finesse from Groves.
Supposedly, Groves had fixed the problems he made in his fight against Glen Johnson, but in his most recent fight against Dario German Balmaceda earlier this month, Groves looked like the same primitive that he did in his fight with Johnson. Groves was just loading up like a savage brute against Balmaceda, and not setting up his shots in way by using his jab or lightening up on his power to catch his opponent by surprise.
It was just awful to look at, and all I could think of after the fight is that Booth has got to go. If a fighter continues to fight the way that Groves has been then someone has to be the fall guy, and I believe that guy should be Booth. Groves needs a good American trainer like Freddie Roach to teach him how to spar, and he needs the good sparring that is available at the Wildcard gym in Los Angeles, California.
Groves will be fighting on the Froch vs. Mikkel Kessler undercard on May 25th at the O2 Arena in London, UK. Groves’ promoter Eddie Hearn has been talking about getting a big name for Groves to fight for that card, but it’s painfully obvious that the big name, if you want to call him that, is the recently knocked out Brian Magee. I’d really, really surprised if that’s the name that Hearn doesn’t reel in.
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