Kessler's never taken a couple of flush bombs from anybody with very good power...he is too good to be caught like that anyway... ...Bute took some big, flush shots from Berrio...and Bika...as everyone who's seen those fights will know... ...there are no indications at all that Kessler's chin is not very good, but there's no reason to assume it's better than Bute's...and, even if it were, it would have to be iron for it to make much of a difference against a puncher with very good power like Froch, ASSUMING Froch would actually land a few big ones, flush, which I'm not at all sure he would...
I think Taylor will beat Froch, therefore we have good chances of seeing Taylor-Bute being made because the US networks are interested in that one !
He's not a fast combination puncher, but he can get his jab and right uppercut off very quickly and from awkward angles.
Wait and see...it's far, far from certain that Bute beats Andrade in a rematch in the first place...(if he gets past the voluntary challenger - BIKA?? - that is...)
I don't know about Froch. The best fighter he has fought is Jean Pascal. For those that have seen Pascal's previous fights before Froch, realize that he is not a World class fighter. Pascal struggled several times against second rate, brought in to lose and get a pay check opponents. Pascal was completely unproven. I think Taylor will be too quick & skilled for Froch and will win by TKO.
pascal fought with a shoulder injury for 1 year! But this said i admit the level of competition they face are not the same! Taylor UD
Taylor "lost" to all the best competition he faced, whatever the score cards said. He lost to Hopkins (and never seemed to recover from the first fight thrashing the old man laid on him in round 10), he lost of Winky, was made foolish in front of Cory Spinks and then took a beating from Pavlik. Froch has won all his fights clearly and there was NO DOUBT when he won his belt. Plus, he doesn't run like a little girl after taking a good shot... unlike Taylor after Lacy caught him.
Pascal was getting rocked by scrubs, and has never looked good. He is a Roy Jones want a be, minus the talent. His best win was against Kingsley Ikeke , who was out of the ring for 2 years and moved up in weight for the fight. And Ikeke was not that good to begin with. The one time he stepped up lost.
Do you think Froch would beat Winky Wright, Bernard Hopkins? Taylor fought on even terms with those fighters, I suspect Taylor is on a different level than Froch. Froch is slow, easy to hit and unproven against elite oppononets.
Pascal has never beat any real opponent, and he has never really looked good. The one time he stepped up, he lost. People are saying he had a shoulder injury, and just take our word that Pascal is a very good fighter even though he has never shown anything in the ring. And I think they are wrong. I think both Allan Green and Edison Miranda would beat Pascal. Those fights should of happend. But he fought guys like Omar Pittman instead.
The two would probably badly outclass the slow, ponderous Froch. Taylor fought comepetitive close fights against Winky and Hopkins.