carl froch, welcome to superstardom

[TheMacMagician]

He got up and won the fight. But up until that point it was pretty much what people expected of him, which isn't much.

Its safe to say now that kessler would beat him handily.

And I'm not sure he beats Jermain Taylor again if they have a rematch. But we'll see.

Seriously


Taylor was the clear betting favourite on both sides of the Atlantic so who how can Froch have been expected to have knocked him out as if it was just expected?

Taylor has only been stopped once in his career prior to this, to Kelly Pavlik who is one of the superstars of current boxing. He has two wins over Bernard Hopkins and isn't considered to be a walkover for any boxer on the planet.

How can you Froch just did what was expected as if Jermain is just some journeyman fighter?

Nobody has ever beaten Taylor easily, in fact Kelly Pavlik is the only other man to do so.

What I mean is that this fight didn't really show us anything really new. We know Froch has power and a chin and heart, and thats great But it didnt show any improvements in terms of defense or things of that nature that could help him against people like Kessler. I do like him more after tonight but he needs to show something new before he moves it up to people like Kessler.

Didn't show anything new? Seriously, you can't doubt that Froch was an underdog in this fight, genuinely steppin up to WC Level, against a skilled boxer with a good bang. He took what Taylor had and then proceeded to knock him out, all be it at the end.

The new things shown is that Froch can step it up to the top level, whether he won't get knocked out properly on the way is open for debate, but he stepped up, took everythin on offer, can pick his arse up from a bad knock down, and go on to smash the other guy up. Not many get away with that kind of turn around. New news has to be that Carl Froch is now WC level, which not many thought he would be, (all be it without any defense), and nothing less, surely no fraud.