lpinoy
10-28-2010, 01:49 PM
By Scott Gilfoid:
It’s sad that former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) persists with the mistaken belief that he should have been given the decision over Mikkel Kessler in April in their stage 2 Super Six tournament fight in Herning, Denmark.
I don’t know of too many people, other than loyal British fans of Froch, believe he won the fight. I had Kessler winning eight rounds to four, and I was giving Froch some mercy rounds. It wasn’t that close of a fight because Froch failed to fight in the first half if the fight when he laid back and let Kessler do all the fighting.
You don’t just give away six rounds and think you’re going to come on in the second half and get the decision. Speaking with East Side Boxing’s On the Ropes Boxing Radio, Froch said “As far as I’m concerned, I won the fight. So I take that confidence from that fight.”
I hate to break this to Froch but I don’t know what kind of confidence he can get from a fight that he lost, because I think Froch looked horrible in that fight. I mean if I went out and got spanked, I wouldn’t be on my hind legs crowing as loud as I could about how I should have won. I’d recognize that I got beat. That’s why I think Froch needs to confront reality and acknowledge that Kessler handled him fairly easily.
Froch says “The fact that I went over to Herning three days before the fight, which I should not have done really – it was delayed because of the volcanic ash clouds. When I was out there I was very tired trying to get into a new sleeping pattern, and a new bed, etc. It affects you physically. I had all that to contend with, and I flew in and still put on a great performance against a Mikkel Kessler that was in the best shape of his life.”
It really seems like Froch is making excuses now. The guy needs to deal with his defeat, learn from it and accept it. He lost to a better man, just as he probably should have lost to the talented Andre Dirrell last year when Froch won a controversial 12 round split decision while fighting in front of his home fans in Nottingham, England.
It’s sad that former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) persists with the mistaken belief that he should have been given the decision over Mikkel Kessler in April in their stage 2 Super Six tournament fight in Herning, Denmark.
I don’t know of too many people, other than loyal British fans of Froch, believe he won the fight. I had Kessler winning eight rounds to four, and I was giving Froch some mercy rounds. It wasn’t that close of a fight because Froch failed to fight in the first half if the fight when he laid back and let Kessler do all the fighting.
You don’t just give away six rounds and think you’re going to come on in the second half and get the decision. Speaking with East Side Boxing’s On the Ropes Boxing Radio, Froch said “As far as I’m concerned, I won the fight. So I take that confidence from that fight.”
I hate to break this to Froch but I don’t know what kind of confidence he can get from a fight that he lost, because I think Froch looked horrible in that fight. I mean if I went out and got spanked, I wouldn’t be on my hind legs crowing as loud as I could about how I should have won. I’d recognize that I got beat. That’s why I think Froch needs to confront reality and acknowledge that Kessler handled him fairly easily.
Froch says “The fact that I went over to Herning three days before the fight, which I should not have done really – it was delayed because of the volcanic ash clouds. When I was out there I was very tired trying to get into a new sleeping pattern, and a new bed, etc. It affects you physically. I had all that to contend with, and I flew in and still put on a great performance against a Mikkel Kessler that was in the best shape of his life.”
It really seems like Froch is making excuses now. The guy needs to deal with his defeat, learn from it and accept it. He lost to a better man, just as he probably should have lost to the talented Andre Dirrell last year when Froch won a controversial 12 round split decision while fighting in front of his home fans in Nottingham, England.