By Scott Gilfoid: I recently sat down and re-watched WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s win over Arthur Abraham from last November, and I must say I wasn’t all that impressed from what I saw of Froch in that fight on the second viewing. I came away slightly impressed with Froch in November, and thought he did a halfway decent copy of Andre Dirrell in his one-sided win over Abraham.

In looking at the fight again, I came away thinking it was more of a case of Abraham being mentally and physically not present for the Froch fight rather than what Froch was doing in the ring. Abraham just looked shell shocked from the Dirrell fight. On May 21st, Froch is facing Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) in the semi finals of the Super Six tournament. Johnson punches hard, is always fit, and doesn’t get discouraged. He’s coming into the fight on a high from his 8th round stoppage of Allan Green in November.

Johnson is going to take advantage of the things that Abraham wouldn’t and couldn’t take advantage of, like Froch’s nasty habit of fighting with his hands down by his sides, inviting shots to his wide open head. Johnson is going to be throwing nonstop head shots with Froch’s head exposed like that. And, unlike Abraham, Johnson is capable of throwing a lot of punches without stopping. He’s not going to just fight in the last 10 seconds of the round. Johnson is going to be looking to bury Froch on 5/21.

Froch’s sloppy fighting style isn’t going to get the job done against Johnson, a fighter who’s been in with quality fighters like Chad Dawson and Tavoris Cloud. Froch, with his arm punches, is going to get drilled all night long by Johnson.