By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s) thinks that unbeaten challenger George Groves (19-0, 15 KO’s) is afraid about their fight in less than 2 weeks on November 23rd. Froch believes that Groves is worried about what he has coming to him for all the trash talking that he’s done for the past month or so in questioning Froch’s legacy and failing to give Froch the respect that he feels that he deserves.
Froch said to the Daily Mail “He has a suspect chin and he has never been asked to dig deeply into whatever reserves he has, not at this level. Is he tough enough? Is he physically at the races? I really don’t think so…I think he is very fearful of what is coming and each day he wakes up knowing that he is one day closer to discovering he is in at the deep end and out of his depth.”
Froch is yapping about respect as well that he feels that Groves isn’t giving him. Froch says he’s not going to shake Groves hand after the fight unless he apologizes to him. That’s kind of funny that Froch would even be concerned about that kind of thing, because I think it’s academic that there’s a lot of bad blood between them. Even if Groves were to lose the fight, which I don’t think he will, he’s probably not going to waste time groveling in front of Froch to make things nice. I have no idea why Froch should care about respect from Groves. Froch shouldn’t need to be validated by his opponents. That should come from within rather than having someone pour bucks full of praise over his head to make him feel good or whatever.
I think Froch needs to start focusing on where he can go and what he can say to himself and fans if he loses this fight. That’s something Froch may need to get ready for because he’s facing a younger fighter in 25-year-old Groves, and Froch looked terrible in his last fight against Mikkel Kessler. He looked all of 36 in that fight, and was as if Froch had aged 5 years in one fight. I never seen him look so bad, and perhaps the only reason he won the fight was because of how demotivated Kessler looked for the first five rounds. He looked like someone that didn’t want to be there, and he basically gave the fight away. When Kessler did start to fight hard in the 6th, he dominated Froch pretty much from that point on and I had Kessler winning most of the last 7 rounds of the fight. Kessler’s problem is he gave away the first 5 rounds by standing there looking totally clueless on the outside as if he’d never seen a limp jab before.
Groves is going to take the fight to Froch, nail him with fast shots, and make him pay each time he lands one of his own punches. I see this as a really one-sided fight unless Froch can somehow score a knockout or find the fountain of youth to rejuvenate him to what he was back in 2009.
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