Yusaf Mack

By Marcus Stewart: The incredible fighting machine which is Carl Froch will be defending his IBF title against little known American Yusaf Mack. It’s a fight that Froch should win with ease against the predictable and untalented American.

Carl Froch is a proven warrior and has beaten some of the best super middleweight in the world. From Andre Dirrell to the over hyped Canadian Lucian Bute. He’s a beast and definitely a force to be reckoned with. Technically Froch should still be undefeated after battering Mikkel Kessler and dominating Andre Ward. This fight is more of a warm up bout for the rematch in Montreal against Bute, whereby he’ll be able to expose the Romanian based Canadian in front of his home fans.

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KO’s) may be talking about fighting to his 40th birthday, but American Yusaf Mack (31-4-2, 17 KO’s) is ready to kick his duff off the hill and take over as the IBF champion on Saturday night in their meeting in Nottingham. Mack figures that Froch is ready to picked off and he feels he’s just the man to do the job on him.

Mack said to thesun.co.uk “Froch has had his time, he had his world title shot. Now it’s my time.”

I agree. Froch had his time and is now 35, and in the position after a lot of grueling fights to where he’s vulnerable. Mack could be the guy to do it. That’s not to say that he will, but it’s possible. Mack is a little younger than Froch at 32, and he doesn’t have a lot of hard miles on him.

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By Scott Gilfoid: 35-year-old IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KO’s) figures he can go another five years into his 40s as a fighter. Froch is projecting that he can still fight at a high enough level to be effective even that far in the future as he approaches his fight tomorrow night against Yusaf Mack (31-4-2, 17 KO’s) in Nottingham.

Froch said to the Dailymail.co.uk “Rob [McCracken] wants me to do it…why not? Age is a number. I live right. No smoking, no drinking, no putting on weight. I feel great. A lot of my recent fights looked like wars but I haven’t taken too much punishment.”

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By Scott Gilfoid: Percy Custus, the trainer for American power puncher Yusaf Mack (31-4-2, 17 KO’s), says they’re ready to defeat IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KO’s) after having studied his style and they know what to do to beat him this Saturday night at the Capital FM Arena, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Custus told Sky Sports News “He’s [Froch] only a human being…We made a couple of adjustments for Carl Froch because we know a couple of things he’s going to do.”

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By Scott Gilfoid: American light heavyweight Yusaf Mack (31-4-2, 17 KO’s) got under the thin skin of IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KO’s) in their recent press conference when he did a little good old fashioned Philadelphia trash talking. I guess Froch isn’t used to the give in take of fighters from Philly because he got all bent out of shape about it.

Mack said this as quoted by thesun.co.uk: “I said he’s a fake Joe Calzaghe and it got under his skin.”

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By Scott Gilfoid: The big punching Yusaf Mack (31-4-2, 17 KO’s) intends on leaving a lot of sad and gloomy faces this Saturday night in Nottingham when he beats their hero IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KO’s) and then brings his International Boxing Federation strap back to the United States to show it off.

Mack said thesun.co.uk “This is the first time I have fought outside the United States. I intend to go back home [to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] with the belt to make this trip worthwhile.”

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By Scott Gilfoid: Light heavyweight contender Yusaf Mack (31-4-2, 17 KO’s) brings a nice little two-fight winning streak into his fight this Saturday night against IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KO’s) in Nottingham, UK. Mack isn’t going to let Froch back him up and pound away on him like he did his last opponent Lucian Bute.

Mack has already said he’s going to stand his ground and not let the 35-year-old Froch put him in a position where he’ll have to fight with his back against the ropes in a helpless position.

Mack said “Once Froch feels my power, he’ll respect me. He won’t be rushing in fighting a bigger, stronger guy like me…he has to beat me.”

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KO’s) fights Yusaf Mack (31-4-2, 17 KO’s) this Saturday night at the Capital FM Arena, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. Froch, 35, can’t afford any slip ups in this fight because a loss here will erase his dreams of a murderers row of top fighters that he wants to fight against Lucian Bute, Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward.

Froch has fought a number of tough opponents in the last few years in Jermain Taylor, Jean Pascal, Andre Dirrell, Arthur Abraham, Glen Johnson, Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward. Froch has struggled in virtually all of those fights, and is lucky that he has more than two wins out of that bunch.

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