Looks Like Super 6 Has Been Shortened

Rather then find a sub for Kessler to fight Green, Froch has let on that his fight with Abraham will be a semi-final. Kind of the only direction to go and also a bit of a blessing as this means there are only 3 fights left in the tournament, the 2 semis and the winner. Also, it looks like the Froch bout will be for the WBC title, which means the final will be a unification bout for the WBA-WBC.

WBC will make Kess the 'emeritus' champion, Froch calls it the marital title ;D

BBC Sport - Carl Froch fight with Abraham to be for world title

Also says the final will probably be at MSG.

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Originally Posted by amat

Rather then find a sub for Kessler to fight Green, Froch has let on that his fight with Abraham will be a semi-final. Kind of the only direction to go and also a bit of a blessing as this means there are only 3 fights left in the tournament, the 2 semis and the winner. Also, it looks like the Froch bout will be for the WBC title, which means the final will be a unification bout for the WBA-WBC.

WBC will make Kess the 'emeritus' champion, Froch calls it the marital title ;D

BBC Sport - Carl Froch fight with Abraham to be for world title

Also says the final will probably be at MSG.

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Does that means Kessler can come back in 5 years and fight the champ in his first fight back?

This is great for everyone except Andre Ward. Dirrell is the only guy in the tournament with the skillset to beat him.

If the semis are Ward-Dirrell and Abraham-Froch, I think that this tournament has saved itself. Of course it's no-ones fault that it has gone tits up and none of the fighters deserve punishing.

I actually think it could be a Dirrell-Abraham final. I wonder how Arthur would feel going up against the man who lost him his 0 to what he believes was play acting. Could the final be something like RJJ vs Montell Griffin II. That would be an awesome ending to the whole thing though I don't think Arthur has the skills to do that to Dirrell. Glad that titles should be being unified too. Boxings governing bodied should be getting together to try and enforce unification bouts rather than having loads of champs.

Over at the scene they are saying Froch has jumped the gun nothing has been decided yet.

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Originally Posted by skel1983

Over at the scene they are saying Froch has jumped the gun nothing has been decided yet.

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If this hasn't been decided yet I think it's the best outcome for boxing.

I don't know for a fact but to me it seems like this is the obvious conclusion and that the only thing holding this up would be stupid Lou Dibella and Allan Green. Obviously they don't want the one and done scenario so they will likely have to be cut a sweet deal to not be in the tournament. I mean if he won by KO over some sorry substitute then couldn't he potentially make it to the final round? It's 4 AM so I won't try to do math right now.

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Originally Posted by CFH

This is great for everyone except Andre Ward. Dirrell is the only guy in the tournament with the skillset to beat him.

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lers hope dirrell doesnt get through, he is a disgrace

So Ward more than likely will not fight either Froch or Abraham if one of them losses ? That kind of sucks. I was hoping everyone fought each other.

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Originally Posted by The Fightfan

So Ward more than likely will not fight either Froch or Abraham if one of them losses ? That kind of sucks. I was hoping everyone fought each other.

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i was hoping that everyone would get a free slap on Dirrells cheek, but that isnt gonna happen either

sucks or what?

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Originally Posted by CFH

This is great for everyone except Andre Ward. Dirrell is the only guy in the tournament with the skillset to beat him.

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Good.

In the battle of the two Andre's there is only one that I want to win and it's the one that doesn't think he is the reincarnation of a ram.

It's the only way to finish the tournament really with two others out, so I am all for it.