Carl Froch in Showtimes SuperMiddleweight Tournament, a shot in the arm for boxing !!

Do you mean Super Middleweight? And what happened to Bute?

 

Hate to sound skeptic but if this happens i'll be amazed. Whose going to want to watch Taylor Kessler after both have been KO'd by Froch?

 

Yes he did mean super middleweight and Bute's probably not prepared to get involved because it's too risky. Doubt this will happen anyway, especially not in this format. They're better off doing a Don King style elimination tournament.

 

that many fighters and that many possiblilites for pullouts/disputes etc, especially given the level we're talking(not prize fighter level with guys accepting any sort of deal to get exposure), i can't really see something of that scale being pulled off. maybe if they were all part of the same promotional company, but i just cant see it happening.

they did that heavyweight tournament awhile ago with povetkin etc, but we're talking elite skilled fighters in a healthy division rather than promoters trying to desperately squeeze some life out a moribund heayweight scene. plus it was on a far smaller scale.

 

Plus it would require co-operation from the sanctioning bodies. Froch and Kessler hold titles and over that timescale the potential for someone to get stripped would be high. Much better off doing an elimination style tournament, it's worked in the past. They're asking too big a commitment from the fighters with something like this.

 

Yep, I agree. Its too ambitious and will go tits up before the semi-final stage.

 

Wow if show time pull it off it would be the biigest coup in boxing over the last 10 years. Imagine the exposure for the super middleweight division. It'll become the most popular division (behind the welters of course :smooch) . Super middleweight would be bigger than middleweight. But like people have said earlier the sanctioning bodies would get in the way. But im sure they could just fight for the Ring Magazine title. I think that title is starting to hold more weight than the sanctioning body's belt

 

make abraham-kessler and froch-pavlik. have the winners fight each other. winner of that fights winner of bute/andrade 2. abraham/froch or froch/andrade would be the most fun. although i expect kessler is best equipped to deal with the aforementioned possible opponents.

 

Exactly.

 

I dont think Taylor should enter this tournament if it does take place. I mean he's courageous and all but another heavy defeat could end him in the ring and mentally. Imagine it he'll be having triple nightmares of Kessler, Froch and Pavlik :scaredas:.
On a serious note he should spend a year fighting cannon fodder to build up his confidence and slowly erase the scars from both the Pavlik and Froch fight. Then challenge for the top again

 

:goodAgreed. It also shows our lack of faith in the powers that be that we are all so skeptical as well.atsch

 

I don't think fighting cannon fodder would help Taylor. If we know its cannon fodder he would know. If we know he is certain to win he would know. Confidence would only come from beating someone good and surviving adversity. He was seconds away from beating Froch. There were plenty of plusses for him in that fight.

 

I think Dan means the heavyweight tournament in the mid 80s to unify the division that ended up with Tyson winning it. Even that got messy because Spinks held the lineal title and he left the tournament.