Its been fun Kessler but please call it a day

Firstly before i start off my prediction and breakdown for the fight was pretty much spot on with the exception of the 1-3 rounds and 4-6 rounds being reversed.

http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=463161&page=19

Froch definitely deserved to win that fight and he fought very well, i still had it reasonably close at 7-5 but the rounds Froch won were big and the rounds Kessler won were close but clear. Im not quite sure how an earth two of the judges had it so wide but im kind of fed up as a lot of other fans are of scorecards that dont truly reflect what has actually happened in the fight.

Now i know not everyone is going to agree with what i have to say but i honestly think Kessler is shot or very close to it. I found the fight very hard to watch having witnessed his performance against Calzaghe. Just to summarise last night his legs were made of lead, his accuracy at times was shocking, his head movement non existent, his chin deteriorated and his ability to fight for 3 minutes of every round clearly in the past. Criticise me if you want but a prime Kessler in that ring would have stopped Carl last night. It still took a very good performance from Froch to tame that version of Kessler and at times he was lucky he had that great chin to fall back upon because he was still forced to take the better punches of the fight.

I just hope Kessler calls it a day now, he clearly cannot reproduce the form that once made him such a formidable force. Despite the fantastic performance from Froch i can't help but think it was a somewhat shallow victory considering the version of Kessler he was facing. It is clear to me that the previous meeting was a last hoorah and took everything Kessler had left, the proof was in the pudding in the preceding bouts to the second meeting. If Kessler did have anything left it was surely beaten out of him last night, as a fan that was hard to watch.

 

Kessler is one tough ****er, his body cannot operate at nearly the same effectiveness it once did, hence why it was the fight it was. Surely you would know that if you had seen more than 2-3 Kessler fights.:good

 

Well if you actually read the ****ing post and my prediction you would see that id predicted the fight correctly having looked at his fights with the likes of Green and Magee. Having evaluated the information it was clear that Kessler was no longer operating at his best and thus the fight was relatively easy to predict, i did not however think he was that far gone. Again if you had seen more than 2-3 of Kessler's fights you would be able to come to that objective conclusion yourself. I suggest you stop making this more difficult than it is.

 

A few times Kessler would spin Froch and then nothing happened, that was just one example of the many where Kessler couldn't release his punches whereas in the past Froch would have been given a spiteful one, two. The fight itself was fun but very difficult to watch because you just knew Froch was getting away with so much he wouldn't have 6 or 7 years ago.