By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (30-2, 22 KO’s) thinks he can drag WBA champion Mikkel Kessler (46-2, 35 KO’s) into the later rounds next Saturday night and drown him in front of a packed O2 Arena in London, UK. The place will be filled with Froch’s British fans and he feels he can draw energy from them to get the stoppage.
Froch said to Sky Sports News “I’m ready to do the business and get redemption against Mikkel Kessler. It’s still going to be just as brutal, just as vicious, just as hard early on, but as the fight goes into 8, 9 and 10, and it’s in the championship rounds, 10, 11 and 12, that’s when I can take him and clean him out, knock him out and force a late stoppage.”
Froch talks a good game, but when he’s been in there with quality opposition, he’s failed in the past. Froch talked a mile a minute about how he was going to beat Kessler three years ago in 2010 in Herning, Denmark, but then when Froch got whipped, he was filled with excuses.
Froch later fought Andre Ward and talked the same self-promoting stuff, and when he got dominated in that fight, we heard the same kinds of excuses about Froch not being mentally switched on for the fight.
I suspect we’ll hear similar excuses from him next Saturday night at the O2. I mean, Froch can’t use the travel excuse anymore because London is just a hop, skip and a jump from Nottingham, Froch’s hometown.
It’s going to have to be a brand new excuse that we haven’t heard before. My guess it’ll be something about an undisclosed in injury that slowed Froch from training camp.
I’d rather hear Froch just admit that he got beat by the better man, but I suspect we’ll hear either the ‘I wasn’t switched on’ excuse or the ‘I had an injury that I didn’t anyone about’ excuse. Either way, it’ll be so sad to hear the excuse instead of Froch just admitting that he got beat by the superior fighter.
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