By Scott Gilfoid: The soon to be 38-year-old WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) is chewing up time with his career by sitting around without fighting. Thus far, Froch has wasted a year of his career after beating the previously unproven George Groves last year in May.
Instead of realizing that he beat a guy that had never beaten anyone of note, Froch has been sitting around as if he just won the Super Bowl of boxing. Froch recently was hoping to fight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., but that fight isn’t going to happen now after Chavez Jr. was beaten by Andrzej Fonfara by a 9th round stoppage this month.
Froch and his promoter Eddie Hearn had for some envisioned there being a great deal of interest in fight against Chavez Jr. in the U.S. As it turns out, they would have been badly wrong, as Chavez Jr’s fight against Fonfara brought in mediocre ratings on Showtime. Not only that.
Chavez Jr’s two previous fights against Brian Vera failed to bring in the big ratings that he had enjoyed during his brief time as the WBC middleweight champion.
Without the fight against Chavez Jr., Froch is like a rudderless ship on the ocean, unable to come up with any ideas for a direction to take with his stalled boxing career. This stultified state that Froch is stuck in has only tough choices for him if he chooses to continue his career. In other words, there are no soft opponents for Chavez Jr. for Froch to pad his record with now.
If Froch wants to continue fighting, he’ll have to decide on taking on one of these names: Andre Dirrell, Andre Ward, James DeGale, Sergey Kovalev or Adonis Stevenson. Of course, Froch could do something really weird like elect to face Groves or Mikkel Kessler again, but I don’t think the British boxing public will give Froch the time of day if he takes on one of those guys.
“It’s difficult to say where I go from here, but I think the curtains are closing on my career and something needs to happen fast if I am to fight again,” said Froch via the Nottinghampost.com.“If I’m very, very honest I’m so satisfied with the career that I’ve had, it’s been an unbelievable journey. I’ve been a pro for over 12 years. I’ve achieved so much in what’s been a fantastic career. I’ve got no complaints whatsoever. I’m so satisfied and so, so happy. I’ve been very fortunate. If I don’t fight again, I won’t be crying into my pillow.”
Wow, looks like Froch has lost his ambition, doesn’t it? Two fights against Groves seems to have made Froch content rather than him seeing it as nothing more than a case of him being a domestic level fighter who’d never beaten anyone that you can call a good fighter in the 1st tier. We’re likely to see Froch’s wins over Groves be put in perspective soon when Groves faces newly crowned WBC super middleweight champion Badou Jack this summer.
If that fight goes like I think it will, Groves will be knocked out by Jack, and suddenly Froch’s wins over Groves won’t seem like such a big deal after all. With his wins over Groves rendered meaningless like his win over Lucian Bute, Froch will be stuck with very little in terms of accomplishments as a pro. I mean, he’s got the win over Arthur Abraham and Jermain Taylor, and that’s about it as far as I’m concerned. Froch lost to Andre Ward, and he arguably lost to Andre Dirrell as well. Beating Jermain Taylor wasn’t a big deal because Taylor’s career started going downhill after his two losses to Kelly Pavlik before Froch ever faced him.
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