Carl Martin Froch vs. Jean-Thenistor Pascal - IB's standalone RBR scorecard

Would of be Cobra'd for sure IMO and I rated Stevenson despite finding him utterly reprehensible as a human being. Stevenson's run at 175 was a lot of smoke and mirrors if you look at his resume although he didn't get his shot until later on so from a boxing standpoint it's a shame we never saw him kickstart his career earlier.

 

What big fight did Stevenson ever actually make? He had that shameless arrangement with Alvarez to just keep taking step aside money so no good mandatory challengers could ever pull up on him.

Ward? No. Kovalev? No. Pascal? No. Hopkins? No.

He was a classic example of a 'lineal' champ milking his belt for all it's worth with a safety first approach to match making for the majority of his run at 175.

 

Interestingly enough I watched this fight live because Pascal used to be my favourite fighter and back then he had much more of a slick RJJ type reputation, but this fight proved how he would fight when he had to dig deep.

 

Stevenson was Froch's mandatory at 168. Stevenson moved to 175 because Froch wouldn't fight him. He'd have obliterated Froch in my opinion.

 

Froch didn't want to get brutally KO'd. Some guys have no problem fighting scrub mandatories, but when a real challenge become mandatory, and they duck.

 

Well that's just like your opinion man.

Personally I see it differently. It was Stevenson who abandoned his mandatory status and left the division.

I wasn't a big Froch guy but trying to paint him as a ducker and Adonis as some take on anyone anytime kind of fighter is laughable IMO.

 

Like I say, it's funny how fighters are okay with fighting a bull**** mandatory against a scrub, but when there is an actual threat that becomes mandatory, all of a sudden it's not in fashion to fight the mandatory.