By Scott Gilfoid: Tonight, IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s) beat WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (46-3, 35 KO’s) tonight by a 12 round unanimous to even the score in their two fights together, but instead of talking about wanting to move on and face the other fighter that whipped him, Andre Ward, Froch says he wants to fight Kessler a third time.
Froch said “It’s one [victory] a piece. Who knows? You [Kessler] fancy a third one? It feels really good. The only thing that feels bad is that I had to beat such a nice gentleman, a real warrior.”
Yeah, I bet Froch would like to fight Kessler again with a price tag of 15 pounds on pay per view. I wonder how many times Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn can sell this one before the public loses interest.
Fighting Kessler for a third time is one way for Froch to avoid fighting Andre Ward again or facing unbeaten Brit George Groves. Somehow, I don’t think Froch fancies facing either guy.
Unfortunately, I don’t think the British public would stomach a third fight between Froch and Kessler, especially if it’s another pay per view fight like tonight. Maybe I’m wrong about this but I don’t think the British public will want to pay 15 pounds to see Froch fight Kessler over and over again without stop because it just gives the appearance that Froch is avoiding the guys he should be fighting and just looking to milk the Kessler PPV fights.
After watching how boring tonight’s fight was, I don’t care to ever see Froch and Kessler fight again. That just wasn’t interesting to me because of all the jabbing that Froch did and the lack of punching. This same fight would have likely been booed out of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, had it taken place over there because the U.S fans would have been disappointed with the non-action.
It’s not entirely Froch’s fault the fight lacked action. I give heaping portion of blame to Kessler just standing on the outside seemingly afraid to move forward to land his power shots. Kessler reminded me of watching someone climb up on the high diving board and then not jumping off for fear of the pain of the impact on the water.
Kessler definitely didn’t do what he had to and lost the fight because of it. Froch didn’t win the fight tonight. Kessler lost it by being too timid to pull the trigger with his power shots and combinations.
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