By Scott Gilfoid: It looks like George Groves is going to need to cool his heels and wait around for his rematch with IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch, because Froch is saying he’s close to getting a fight against former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in the United States, and that’s the one he wants to take next. Froch is interested in facing Groves again, but he wants to go after the bigger fight against Chavez Jr. first before he comes back and faces Groves again.
Groves needs to forget about Froch for the time being and get busy with his career already. Sitting around moping about how he got jobbed in his fight against Froch last November is pointless. WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward said already that he’s interested in giving Groves a shot at his title, so Groves need to accept his offer and forget about Froch.
“The fight with Chavez Jr. is one of the five options that I do have and that’s a fight I can get motivated for, a fight that excites me,” Froch said to Sky Sports. “To be on pay-per-view channel in America – very, very few British fighters have done that…That is a realistic option and that I’m very, very seriously considering. In fact, we’re closer to that happening than the George Groves fight.”
Oh man, don’t tell me that Top Rank is going to try and make Chavez Jr. vs. Froch a PPV fight in the U.S. What a loss. I can’t see that fight doing even 100,000 PPV buys. How can you make Chavez Jr. fight in a PPV bout against anyone nowadays after his loss to Sergio Martinez, his subsequent suspension due to him testing positive for marijuana, and then getting a gift decision in his fight with Brian Vera. I don’t care if Chavez Jr. beats Vera in the rematch; who wants to pay to see Chavez Jr. fight Froch? That fight should be on regular HBO, if anything.
I think I agree with Froch in his choice to take the Chavez Jr. fight. It’s a better match-up for Froch, and there’s less to lose if he gets whipped than there is if he gets knocked out by Groves. I wouldn’t mind seeing Froch fight Chavez Jr. or whoever his other 3-4 choices. I imagine one of those choices is Jean Pascal. I’d like to see that fight. I don’t care to see Froch chase James DeGale around the ring for 12 rounds. That’s dead. I assume that Andre Ward isn’t one of Froch’s choices given his reluctance to get back in the ring with the talented American. But if he’s one of the choices, then that’s a great fight. I hope Froch would have the decency to add Andre Dirrell’s name to the mix, because he never got a rematch after he whipped Froch in 2009 in Nottingham and found himself on the losing end of a highly controversial decision. I had Dirrell totally dominating Froch in that fight. It’s just so sad that Dirrell never got a chance to avenge his loss.
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