Quote Originally Posted by Tam Seddon View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Primo Carnera View Post
So basically , there is no real injury, because if there was an injury, the IBF would've given him some time to recover. Especially after he accepted the mandatory fights against Groves. The IBF were gonna look into that, and so he vacated.
The Chavez fight (WOW! can't wait for that. ) couldn't happen because they couldn't make the figures work with Arum in the equation , so they've probably thought "let the dust settle, then we'll do it."
Now , there's been talk of a fight with Hopkins at the City Ground . I don't see what's in it for Hopkins (apart from money) if there's no belt at stake.
IF Degale won the title against Dirrell, and IF Froch wanted to fight him, I'd tell Froch to get fucked and arrange a fight with Groves.
it's all well and good Froch talking big, empty names like Chavez , but we'll see how relevant he is when he isn't a World champion. He'll probably retire by then , which would probably be about the most acceptable scenario.
There is an elbow injury and Froch can't fight till the summer. He also doesn't want to fight Degale, so why make him wait around or fight for an interim belt if he's not likely to fight hum? Froch was being sound in vacating the belt so this gives Degale the opportunity instead of wasting time for Degale getting his shot
Tam, if you genuinely believe he was doing it to be sound , then fair play to ya. but, if he has a genuine injury, after bending over backwards to satisfy the IBF by taking the Groves fights, don't you think he had a good case to go to the IBF and say, "Look , I'm injured at the minute , and when I come back , I think I deserve the right to a voluntary." especially after fighting the mandatory twice on the trot.
He may be a sound guy (maybe not?), but he ain't so sound that he's gonna say "listen Chunky, I've got this elbow injury that'll keep me out for a month or 2 , so I don't want to hold up your career, you go for the title."
that's bullshit, he doesn't give a flying fuck about Degale and I don't expect him to either.