Froch vs. Ward - Saturday fight/chat thread

[Beanz]

There are boxers and there are fighters. There are a select few elite in the hurt game who can effortlessly combine both. Then amongst these few there are those who touch greatness, who can mix it up and evolve mid contest. These warriors transcend the sport, their exploits bleed onto the front page, their fearlessness allows them to dismantle the emerging careers of athletes of great promise and expose those whose excellence has been prematurely announced. They are legends the benchmark against whom future boxers are measured. Carl Froch has the chance to join the select few, the men who are spoken of in hushed tones of awe. That chance is in his lethal hands, the well honed chiselled, spiteful tools of his noble trade. Can the Cobra strike and snatch the mantle of greatness from the hallowed hall of British super Middleweights who punched and fought their way onto the world’s stage, burning the image of their greatness onto the consciousness of pugilistic punters across the globe? Tonight we will find out.

[Violent Demise]

There are boxers and there are fighters. There are a select few elite in the hurt game who can effortlessly combine both. Then amongst these few there are those who touch greatness, who can mix it up and evolve mid contest. These warriors transcend the sport, their exploits bleed onto the front page, their fearlessness allows them to dismantle the emerging careers of athletes of great promise and expose those whose excellence has been prematurely announced. They are legends the benchmark against whom future boxers are measured. Carl Froch has the chance to join the select few, the men who are spoken of in hushed tones of awe. That chance is in his lethal hands, the well honed chiselled, spiteful tools of his noble trade. Can the Cobra strike and snatch the mantle of greatness from the hallowed hall of British super Middleweights who punched and fought their way onto the world’s stage, burning the image of their greatness onto the consciousness of pugilistic punters across the globe? Tonight we will find out.

Uh yeah. Ok.

[Beanz]

There are boxers and there are fighters. There are a select few elite in the hurt game who can effortlessly combine both. Then amongst these few there are those who touch greatness, who can mix it up and evolve mid contest. These warriors transcend the sport, their exploits bleed onto the front page, their fearlessness allows them to dismantle the emerging careers of athletes of great promise and expose those whose excellence has been prematurely announced. They are legends the benchmark against whom future boxers are measured. Carl Froch has the chance to join the select few, the men who are spoken of in hushed tones of awe. That chance is in his lethal hands, the well honed chiselled, spiteful tools of his noble trade. Can the Cobra strike and snatch the mantle of greatness from the hallowed hall of British super Middleweights who punched and fought their way onto the world’s stage, burning the image of their greatness onto the consciousness of pugilistic punters across the globe? Tonight we will find out.

Uh yeah. Ok.

Well it was getting a bit heavy so I thought I'd lighten the tone and lower expectations

[Mars_ax]

In honor of Carl i'm having a few Bass Ales tonight.

Gus Johnson, Bernstein and Tarver calling the fight for Showtime, looks like it will be another 15-20 minutes before it starts.

[Gandalf]

Jesus, I woke up 40 minutes before the fight. Sorry, I thought I was Ward there. I mean, Godless damn, I woke up too late. Better late than never, let's have it Froch!

[Spicoli]

Finally, dear jeezus! 2 years. Heart says Froch and brain says Ward. Call me a turncoat...I hope Froch busts him up and gets the win.

[jakey g]

Finally, dear jeezus! 2 years. Heart says Froch and brain says Ward. Call me a turncoat...I hope Froch busts him up and gets the win.

my thoughts exactly, im sat on my own , speaking to the screen, got a fridge stacked , goood times

[Youngblood]

Sup Guys. Hope it's a good scrap. Don't care who wins as not really much of a fan of either, but it is a cool stylistic match up and the culmination of the Super 6 tournament idea, a new way to market the sport. Sure it ran into problems, but overall I think it generated a lot of exposure for the fighters, for boxing, and created an audience for future match ups in the division.

I gotz beer.

Let's do this thing.

[Beanz]

There are boxers and there are fighters. There are a select few elite in the hurt game who can effortlessly combine both. Then amongst these few there are those who touch greatness, who can mix it up and evolve mid contest. These warriors transcend the sport, their exploits bleed onto the front page, their fearlessness allows them to dismantle the emerging careers of athletes of great promise and expose those whose excellence has been prematurely announced. They are legends the benchmark against whom future boxers are measured. Carl Froch has the chance to join the select few, the men who are spoken of in hushed tones of awe. That chance is in his lethal hands, the well honed chiselled, spiteful tools of his noble trade. Can the Cobra strike and snatch the mantle of greatness from the hallowed hall of British super Middleweights who punched and fought their way onto the world’s stage, burning the image of their greatness onto the consciousness of pugilistic punters across the globe? Tonight we will find out.

So once again i got it spectacularly wrong

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Carl Froch was comprehensively beaten by Andre Ward. His bravery and durability in withstanding a 12 round onslaught by a former Olympic gold medallist 7 years his junior can not be questioned. The Cobra was made to look sluggish, almost pedestrian at times by the slick American, a boxer whose greatest asset seems to be the ease with which he makes himself unhittable. The elusiveness of Ward was not the surprise on the night, it was his willingness and ability to stand and trade with Froch, forcing the old school warrior from Nottingham back against the ropes, turning his own vicious long game back on to the older man. Carl rallied late on and over a vintage 15 rounds he may well have caught up with a fading Ward, but it is 2011 and over a championship distance of 12 rounds the venom was drawn from the cobra's bite. The snap usually present in his punches, was nullified by Ward's excellent reflexes, and as a counter puncher relentlessly marching forward, it is the Californian man whose name will go down in the record books as holder of 3 belts and winner of the super 6 tournament. Pound for pound Ward has made a case to crash into the top 5, and if he continues to fight like he did against Froch it will just be a matter of time before his name is mentioned in tandem with greatness.