By Scott Gilfoid: In a fight that could have gone either way, IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s) defeated WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (46-3, 35 KO’s) by a close 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the O2 Arena, in London, UK. The final judges’ scores were 118-110, 116-112 and 115-113.
You can ignore the judge that scored the fight 118-110 for Froch because that score is no indication of how the fight was fought. Froch barely won the fight and spent pretty much the entire missing over and over and over again with his shots. I haven’t seen Froch miss this much since he fought Andre Dirrell in 2009. It was downright embarrassing to see Froch whiffing with his punches like a blind man.