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Quote Originally Posted by Rantcatrat View Post
Froch can box (Jermain Taylor).
Recall that Froch was losing *badly* before KO'ing Taylor.

I'm curious what the odds are for this fight. I honestly see Froch as a full class below Ward and having virtually no chance of winning the fight.

IMO he lost the fight to Dirrell. He lost to Kessler (which was the ugliest, sloppist, most amateurish looking fight I've ever seen between two supposedly elite fighters). On my cards, he's lost half of the Super 6 fights he's been in.

He looked good in the Johnson fight though, I'll give him that. So maybe he's really just improved drastically since the beginning of the tournament.

I'd still be happy to lay down a wad of cash on Ward with even halfway-decent odds.
The counter argument, which erics makes, is other than Kessler when has Ward look as dominant as he's made out to be? He beat Bika but the fight was closer than the scorecards suggested in my opinion. At the same time, Froch's fight against Johnson was relatively close too. Froch and Dirrell was a crappy fight and tough to score, and I believe we can be honest with ourselves that any way you look at it, it was close. In any event, we have no idea how Ward would perform against Dirrell. Dirrell. Froch looked better against Abraham than Ward did and won by more rounds.

Also, I was at Froch's fight against Taylor and I'll tell you how it looked from a spectator's perspective. Taylor was winning the fight going into the later rounds, but somewhere around round 9, give or take a round, the momentum in the fight began to swing toward Froch, at which point Froch began outboxing Taylor.