By Scott Gilfoid: After talking about how he was interested in facing WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs), Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) and his promoter Eddie Hearn haven’t looked to get the fight against Golovkin.
According to Steve Kim, Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler has had no response from Froch and Hearn with a fight against Golovkin. That doesn’t mean the fight isn’t going to happen, but it doesn’t look good right now with Hearn and Froch not taking the initiative to set up the fight.
With all the talking that has been done towards this fight, it’s going to look bad on Froch’s part if he doesn’t step up and face the hard hitting Golovkin. I mean, boxing fans are going to think that Froch got cold feet and decided to take the safe route by retiring rather than taking a huge risk and getting blasted out by Golovkin in front of massive amounts of fans.
“Tom Loeffler says no response from the Froch/Hearn side in regards to a GGG fight. So yeah, as New Edition said,’Mr Telephone man..’ #boxing,” Steve Kim said on his Twitter.
Froch’s legacy really needs a win over someone like Golovkin because Froch hasn’t beaten what you can call a good fighter since his controversial win over Andre Dirrell in 2009, and even that fight was considered a loss by many people. Froch’s other important wins were shallow to say the last due to him getting them either against flawed fighters like Arthur Abraham, or guys that were no longer at their best like Lucian Bute, Jermain Taylor and Mikkel Kessler.
I think all three of those guys would have beaten Froch if they were in their prime when they fought him. Heck, Kessler already beat Froch in their first fight in 2010 when Kessler was still at roughly 80 percent of his prime. In their rematch in 2013, Kessler was clearly at only a fraction of what he’d been earlier in his career.
Froch’s best win of his career in my estimation is his victory over Jean Pascal in 2009, but Pascal was always a flawed fighter and not someone that you could count on. But with all the empty wins that Froch has, he needs a victory over Golovkin for him to be seen as a guy that did something with his career. But if Froch fails to take that fight due to him playing it safe then I see Froch’s legacy as totally lacking.
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