By Scott Gilfoid: If IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KO’s) can’t get a fight against former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for later this year, he might want to look in the direction of undefeated WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (29-0, 26 KO’s), because he would gladly take a fight against Froch if it were offered to him, says his trainer Abel Sanchez.
Sanchez says that Golovkin would take a fight against Froch, and he would more aggressively than George Groves did last Saturday night in his loss to Froch in their rematch. In other words, Golovkin would be taking the fight to Froch and looking to take him out with every shot. It would be a much different fight than Froch’s last two bouts against the fragile-chinned and inexperienced Groves.
“Tom Loeffler, Gennady’s management team and I have spoken about this fight in the past,” Sanchez said. “Now that Carl has won this fight and done so well in front of that many fans, it’s a fight that could do very, very well in the UK. Golovkin would jump at the chance. It’s just a matter of putting all the financial things together and it can happen.”
The major question is would Froch want to tangle with a talent like Groves? Roy Jones Jr. and Max Kellerman of HBO both said that Golovkin would make Froch pay for the mistakes he makes in the ring if he were to take that fight. They see Froch making mistakes in his fights and getting away with it since his loss to Andre Ward, because the guys he’s been facing – Lucian Bute, Groves, Yusaf Mack, and Mikkel Kessler – didn’t have the talent to make him pay the way that Groves would be again and again.
“I’m sure Eddie has had conversations with Tom Loeffler and if it’s possible, why not? We fight on July 26th and if things go well, we have another fight in the fal,” Sanchez saidl.” Whether that’s in Vegas or the UK it really doesn’t matter. Carl has established himself as a star and is really going to bring some fans.”
Golovkin has a fight coming up next month against former IBF/WBA middleweight title holder Daniel Geale (30-2, 16 KO’s) on July 26th at Madison Square Garden in New York. But this fight is merely a routine title defense along the same lines as Golovkin’s mismatch against Curtis Stevens. I suspect it’ll be an even easier fight than that one was, because Geale can’t punch and mainly bounces around the ring trying not to get nailed by punches. It won’t be a competitive fight.
“I wouldn’t go as far as to say that Carl is made for him [Golovkin]. I think that they’re both the kind of guys that will give the fans a hell of a fight,” Sanchez said.
I think Froch IS made to order for Golovkin because Froch would likely try and attack Golovkin back each time he got nailed with big shots, and this would lead to Golovkin battering the heck for Froch and giving him a royal beating. Unless Froch got a clue that he was better off fighting totally in a defensive posture for 12 rounds, he’d likely get his bell rung over and over again in this fight if he tried to rush Golovkin like he did in the two Groves fights.
Getting Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn to agree to letting him fight a skilled an dangerous puncher like Golovkin may prove all but impossible. If you look at the guys that Hearn is targeting for Froch’s fights nowadays – Kessler and Chavez Jr. – it just looks like he’s playing it safe and not putting him in with the dangerous guys that have a really, really good chance of beating Froch like Golovkin and Andre Ward.
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