Good time to pick this thread up again! Froch vs. Kessler was competitive, but not close enough to be a FOTY for me. Kessler won that fight pretty clearly. But it WAS the best mainstream fight, in my opinion - so I understand that you would want to pick Froch vs. Kessler if you, unlike me, didn't sit and comb though YouTube for the slightly more obscure fights that were going on this year. I've found maybe a dozen fights that were better than Froch vs. Kessler in 2010, and I believe that Nobuo Nashiro vs Hugo Fidel Cazares II is my favorite. Awesome, awesome fight.
duddy v chavez jnr , christ saw better fights in the pub yesterday and with more skill too than these 2 overrated pretenders . be real mate!!!!!.
I'm a little surprised people commenting Froch/Kessler was at all one-sided. I thought it was extremely competitive and though I scored it for Kessler, a lot of those rounds were just slightly edged by him by my account. Those guys were terrifically well-matched, I thought.
Froch-Kessler turned into too much of a drunken brawl for my liking. I preferred JMM-Katsidis to this. And like Swarmer above, I personally found Hasegwa-Montiel to be a brilliant fight. Great comeback by the little Mexican.
I understand what you're saying, and I agree about a lot of it. It certainly wasn't 117-111, as one judge had it, but I had it scored 116-112, and that's relatively comfortable. The rounds were close, yes, but few of them were "****-I-don't-know-how-to-score-this" close - they were even, but Kessler was recognizably a better, in my opinion. I just felt that the fight lacked that extra 5% to make it a FOTY candidate, that little bit of urgency that Froch could and should have felt earlier. It just took Froch a bit long to get going. Hm. I think I need to see this fight again, either way.