How Far Away Is Froch From Being a Pound 4 Pounder?

[Mar]

Nah, I wouldn't mate! He is a European level fighter imo, Defence is and always has been not good enough at the highest level.

I'm not disputing his technical ability, which is European level at best. But Hatton's technical ability was limited, and he didn't beat a top fighter who was in their prime, yet managed to float around the top 10 for 3 years.

Froch has 3, possibly 4 (if he beat Abraham) very good names on his resume. Surely that counts for something?

I guess for Hatton, you could argue he cleaned up his weight division, then moved up a division and captured another title, therefor you can argue the point, Froch needs to clean up the SMW before he could be considered IMO

Yeah he cleaned up at 140 at a time when Mayweather and Cotto moved to 147. He cleaned up a division that consisted of Malignaggi, Urango, Maussa, Harris, Witter. Tyszu was a great win, but Tyszu was also ageing. Castillo was a good win, but again he was ageing.

I see wins over Pascal, Dirrell and Taylor being just as impressive as anything Hatton did at 140, maybe with exception of Tszyu.

I think Froch's resume stands up nicely alongside it, and i think it will better it if he was to beat Abraham.

Froch is coming off a loss, and there's a good possibillity he's about to loose two in a row, i'd say it's way too early for pfp talk. Just yesterday there was a thread suggesting direll should be kicked out of the tourny now he's used as part of an argument to raise froch's stock ??