By Scott Gilfoid: It’s three years later and IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (30-2, 22 KO’s) is still bellyaching about his 12 round unanimous decision loss to Mikkel Kessler (46-2, 35 KO’s) from April 2010 in the Super Six tournament. Froch has seemingly never been able to come to terms with that loss, and he just can’t admit that he lost to the more talented fighter without putting the blame on some other factor.
Froch said to Sky Sports “I wasn’t 100 per cent and I still nearly beat him. Now, I’m on the crest of a wave…I was ill-prepared last time, my flight was delayed because of the ash cloud. I’ll be ready this time, more than ready, and he won’t be able to cope.”
Now look at those sad, sad excuses. Froch it putting it on an ash cloud for why he lost.
Good, god, man, I thought I’d heard some doozies in my time but this one takes the cake. An ash cloud kept you from being 100%? This is so disappointing to hear you put it on a harmless ash cloud for why Kessler whipped you from one side of the ring to the other for 12 round long rounds. You’re lucky the judges scored the fight as close as they did because I thought Kessler should have won by at least 9 rounds to 3.
Kessler and Froch will be facing each other in a rematch on May 25th at the O2 Arena in London, UK. If Froch loses this fight then he’s going to have to finally admit that he just doesn’t have what it takes to beat Kessler because any excuses that Froch can dream up for another loss will just make him look like a poor sport who can’t give his opponent the props that he deserves.
Froch is going into this fight with a two-fight winning streak, and under normal circumstances that’s not much to crow about. However, those wins – against Lucian Bute and Yusaf Mack – have made Froch cocky to where he seems to think he can’t lose to Kessler this time. Believe me, Froch can and will lose to Kessler unless we can some kind of weird scoring like we saw in Froch’s HIGHLY controversial win over Andre Dirrell in the Super Six tournament.
Like in this fight, the Dirrell-Froch fight took place in the UK in Nottingham, and Dirrell put on a defensive clinic in dominating Froch from start to finish, but when the scores were handed down two of the judges gave Froch the decision. Seeing that fight, I believe Kessler can lose on May 25th, but not if the judges are actually seeing the fight and scoring it the way they’re supposed to.
The sad thing is I think Froch will probably be satisfied with a controversial victory over Kessler, because he doesn’t seem bothered in the least about his controversial victory over Dirrell. If he’s not bothered about the Dirrell fight then he probably won’t be bothered if the judges give him a hometown decision against Kessler.
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