By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s) may be on the verge of becoming irrelevant in the super middleweight division if the much younger, 25-year-old George Groves (19-0, 15 KO’s) can beat him and rip his straps from around his waist in their now confirmed fight on November 23rd in the UK.
Groves says his trainer Adam Booth is going to come up with the perfect plan to defeat the 36-year-old Froch and take his traps from him.
Groves said to Sky Sports “I have a great team around me that can put together the right game plan to beat him and become a world champion and a major force in the super middleweight division.”
I think Booth is actually pretty good at coming up ways for his fighters to beat their opposition. I mean, I don’t think much of him as an actual trainer, but I do think he’s a strategy guy when it comes to winning fights.
With that said, the ideas that Booth comes up with don’t take a rocket scientist to come up with. Most of the time he gives pretty obvious advice, but he is good at coming up with sound game plans for his fighters.
If Groves doesn’t beat Froch on September 23rd, it won’t be because he used the tactics against him. Booth will no doubt have watched Andre Dirrell and Andre Ward’s schooling they gave Froch in the Super Six tournament, and will merely use something similar to beat him.
Groves will need to box Froch, get in quickly to nail him with fast combinations and then dart away before Froch has had time to swing one of his slow right hands back. The only thing Groves needs to worry about is not doing something brain dead like Lucian Bute did against Froch by retreating to the ropes and trying to fight him in that spot without moving.
That has got to be the dumbest move I’ve ever seen one of Froch’s opponents make. Booth will make sure that Groves doesn’t repeat Bute’s mistake by keeping him in the center of the ring at all times against Froch, using lots of movement and feints to keep Froch guessing.
I think Froch has royally made a huge blunder in accepting this fight against Groves. He’d been better off dumping the IBF title and walking away to try and badger Mikkel Kessler into a third fight or maybe taking on one of the unproven contenders that few boxing fans have heard of.
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