By Scott Gilfoid: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch expects that he’ll look good tonight in beating Yusaf Mack at the Nottingham Arena in front of 9000 screaming Brits. For Froch’s sake he better hope so because he has a lot riding on this fight. If he loses he can forget about fighting Andre Ward and Mikkel Kessler.
Froch may still fight Lucian Bute in a rematch, because as Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn recently said that Froch is contractually obligated to face Bute again, but facing just Bute isn’t what Froch had in mind. He and his promoter Hearn want 2013 to be a big year of rematches for Froch.