Khan favors Froch over Groves

froch0002By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan is going with IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (32-2, 23 KO’s) to beat George Groves (19-1 15 KO’s) in their rematch this month on May 31st at the Wembley Stadium in London, UK. Khan likes Froch’s strength and experience in this fight, and he feels that Froch will be ready for Groves in the early part of the fight to avoid getting nailed by his big shots like last time they fought in November of last year.

“I think it’s a 50-50 fight,” says Khan to Sky Ringside. “It’ll depend on who starts first, and who starts the quickest. If you look at Groves what gave him confidence in the first fight is putting Froch down, and then he had a great few rounds after that. This time Froch is going to know what to expect. He’s going to be more smarter in this fight. I favor Froch in this one. He’s the bigger, stronger guy with more experience, but I think the tables can turn.”

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Hearn: Froch and Groves will knock lumps off each other on May 31st

froch92By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn is really looking forward to the rematch this month between his fighter IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (32-2, 23 KO’s) and George Groves (19-1, 15 KO’s) on May 31st at the Wembley Stadium in London, UK. Hearn thinks that Froch and Groves will stand in the center of the ring and trade power shots in front of what will likely be 80,000 fans.

For some reason Hearn doesn’t think that it’s going to be a tactical fight, even though it would be in Groves’ best interest to fight in that manner. It helps Froch if Groves stands in front of him because he’ll have a better chance of wearing the younger fighter down, and possibly getting a non-controversial stoppage this time around.

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Groves not worried about facing DeGale again, once Froch is out of the way

groves33By Scott Gilfoid: It’s quite possible that George Groves (19-1, 15 KO’s) could find himself facing James DeGale (18-1, 12 KO’s) in a rematch for his first title defense of his IBF/WBA super middleweight titles if Groves gets past IBF/WBA champion Carl Froch (32-3, 23 KO’s) in their rematch this month on May 31st at the Wembley Stadium in London, UK. Groves beat DeGale by a narrow 12 round majority decision three years ago in May of 2011 by the scores of 115-115, 115-114, and 115-114.

It was far from a conclusive victory, but there was never a rematch for some reason, even though DeGale badly wanted one. Groves moved on and fought a series of lesser fighters before getting the fight against Froch last November for his two titles, which Groves subsequently lost by a controversial 9th round stoppage.

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Video – Froch talking retirement if he loses to Groves

froch1111By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (32-2, 23 KO’s) says he could retire if he conclusively loses to George Groves (19-1, 15 KO’s) in their rematch on May 31st at the Wembley Stadium in London, UK. Froch is confident that he’ll win the rematch, but if by chance he gets beaten badly, he’ll hang up his gloves.

“Hypothetically, if I was to lose, I would retire…If it goes wrong then I’ll probably retire,” Froch said during his Facebook question and answer session with Groves.

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Groves: Froch can’t beat me even with his A-game

froch562By Scott Gilfoid: Challenger George Groves (19-1, 15 KO’s) sees IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (32-2, 23 KO’s) in a no-win situation for their fight on May 31st at the Wembley Stadium, in London, UK. Groves feels that no matter what Froch does in this fight, he’s going to get beaten. Froch’s lack of hand speed, defense and mobility will be his undoing in the fight, says Groves. More importantly, Groves feels that Froch has already mentally accepted that he can’t win this fight, and he’s just looking to play out his string, take his loss and then retire immediately after their rematch.

Groves said to Ringside, “Froch doubts himself. He seeks reassurance. He needs to feel love, to be told constantly that you’re doing well, you’re doing great. Whether he’s on his A-game…he’s still not going to be quicker than me, he’s still not going to have better movement than me, he’s still not going to have a better defense than me. I’m still going to hurt him every time I hit him.

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Froch uses reverse psychology with Groves

froch333By Scott Gilfoid: In an incredibly boring Ringside episode between IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch and George Groves this week, Froch basically used reverse psychology on Groves by complimenting him right off the bat, and giving him kudos for a great fight the last time they met up last November. Froch hardly disagreed with Groves at all during the episode until the end, but even when he was disagreeing, Froch looked pretty meek about it and wasn’t losing his cool.

As I said, it was very, very boring to watch, and I must say Froch really undermined himself by not telling Groves what he really thought of him. I mean, why hold back your thoughts if the idea is to get fans believing in the fight? Like last time, Groves was really giving it to Froch the whole time, but Froch was hardly fighting back verbally and it wasn’t even a fight. I wanted to just walk up to Froch and shake him awake because he was hardly even there. Heck, they might as well have had Eddie Hearn answering Froch’s questions for him because it would have amounted to the same. Froch was totally detached and emotionless.

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Groves with big advantage over Froch in rematch

froch5629By Scott Gilfoid: Challenger George Groves (19-1, 15 KO’s) is going to have a tremendous advantage against IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (32-2, 23 KO’s) in their rematch this month on May 31st at the Wembley Stadium in London, UK. With the aggressive fighting style that Froch showed in their previous fight last November, Groves now knows exactly how Froch will be attacking him, and he’ll be ready for the 36-year-old Froch this time around.

Last November, Froch repeatedly would charge forward in a primitive manner and would just throw wild flurries of shots. Froch paid for this in the 1st round when he charged forward and ran into a straight right hand from Groves that decked him. Groves continued to make Froch pay for his sloppy fighting style in rounds 2-7. However, where Groves made a mistake is by not using movement to get out of the way of Froch’s all-out attacks in rounds 8 and 9, when Groves was starting to tire. This enabled Froch to land shots that he wouldn’t have been able to land against smart fighters like Andre Ward and Andre Dirrell.

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Will Groves’ stamina issues come into play against Froch in their rematch?

groves5778By Daven: Recently it emerged that George Groves (19-1, 15 KO’s) has been taking two days off a week for his upcoming fight against IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (32-2, 23 KO’s) on May 31ast at the Wembley Stadium in London, UK. This is absolutely staggering news. He’s supposed to be in his youth and has little history of injury problems yet he can’t work a full schedule? Really shocking to hear if I’m being frank.

Whilst Froch is working in the Rob’s gym in Sheffield Monday-Friday and running whilst back in Nottingham on weekends, Saint George Groves is prancing around London kissing babies and signing autographs for old ladies. Oh yeah he also expends his energy on Twitter abusing Froch, he did the same thing last time and that worked out well didn’t it?

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Froch-Groves 2: The verbal sparring resumes

froch6By Daniel Hughes: This coming Thursday on the UK boxing show Sky Ringside see’s the coming together of IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (32-2, 23 KO’s) and challenger George Groves (19-1, 15 KO’s) ahead of their much anticipated rematch next month on May 31st at the Wembley stadium, in London, UK.

This is a chance once again for the 26-year-old Groves to do what in my opinion he did so well first time around by getting into Froch’s head in the build up to the controversial first meeting last November. It surprised many how easy Groves was able to rile Froch last year, and you could see how uncomfortable the WBA and IBF 168lb champion looked the last time the verbal sparring was taken up a notch.

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Groves: This is the end for Froch

froch332By Scott Gilfoid: George Groves (19-1, 15 KO’s) sees IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (32-2, 23 KO’s) as having a bad case of the nerves as the two of them get nearer to their fight date on May 31st at the Wembley Stadium in London, UK. Groves thinks the punishment that he dished out to Froch last time they fought in November of last year has the 36-year-old fighter worried about the rematch, and he believes that Froch isn’t relishing the thought of having to get in the ring with the younger 26-year-old Groves again.

Groves expects to put an end to Froch’s career on May 31st by beating him in front of a packed house at the Wembley Stadium in front of a hostile crowd.

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