carl froch, welcome to superstardom

[Kev]

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.

I remember you making this same comment about Manny Pacquaio when he tore apart David Diaz and I was pretty mystified then


What 'new' things are you expecting to see every time a top level fighter performs exactly?

You rarely if ever discove anything 'new' about any established seasoned boxer when they step in the ring, you already know their strengths and weaknesses, what we want to see is how far their strengths can carry them and will they get punished for their weaknesses against the top guys.

In the case of Froch, yes is he sloppy, he holds his chin out in contemptous fashion and leaves his hands low, but he also has big power, vicious uppercuts, a solid chin, great stamina and total self belief to win under any odds. Those have always been his characteristics and always will be, what we are seeing now is how far his abilities will take him and how much will his defensive frailties going to haunt him in the future. If you're expecting him to turn into a fleet footed Ivan Calderon elusive type or a fast punching, high workrate, long armed Paul Williams type in the future it just ain't going to happen, fighters fight to their own style and you're not ever learning anything 'new' about any of them.