Do I smell a little double standard here? How do you explain Ward dominating a Mikkel Kessler with double vision, while Froch lost a close but clear decision to the danish cyclops?
I will take your word for it. I read that it was the largest indoor crowd at 60 something thousand but if you say thats just in Europe so be it, it is still a great turn out
Definetely. The talk by Warren pre-fight was that he expected the record to be broken. In the end there was 'only' 55K, which, while still very impressive, wasn't enough to keep Warren from taking a fairly big monetary loss AFAIK.
I agree the result looks terrible for Froch, and have never said different. The only things going for Froch was that he thought the fight was cancelled, was fighting away, had his flight cancelled 3 times, then was brought into the country at a couple of days before the fight where he then had to have a longish drive and then do press work to make up for lost time. I wont make a point of the burst ear drum as many fighters go in with injury. So with the travel probs and Froch not getting into the country till late, is very different than not having those issues if you are at home. But still yes it is a bad loss for Froch in a close fight, considering Kessler was not well. Still I think Froch has a better resume than Bute with Taylor away, Dirrell, Pascal, Abraham at a neutral site. Consider these fights happend one after the other and he fought Kessler away, I consider it a better resume than what Bute has, oh and Froch has beaten Magee also
So does that mean he's gonna wait for Kessler to get back his injured eye and on top of that get back to fighting form? Then he can come to Parken, and we can all greet him as he gets KTFO.
definately trails Kessler. That wasnt in question. Kessler has the best SMW resume at this time for an active SMW
As everyone knows resumes are a fraction of what needs to be considered. As example, at this point in time, Kessler's vision issues definitely trumps his past achievements for any future match making consideration. You can't hit what you can't see, and this has absolutely nothing to do with extraordinary foot movement by Bute. if Bute takes this fight I swear I'll start calling him the Son Of The Slapper.
The guy has won 7 of his last 8 fights by KO. He's far from a slapper. You can't criticize him if his list of opponents at SMW is limited. Kessler is the most legitimate option on the table right now.
Andre Dirrell is a chicken**** farce disgrace to the sport. Is he even ready to fight yet, or is Dr. Shaw-hi keeping him sidelined? Pretty funny that he dropped out of the super 6 and then four months later he was miraculously healed and started talking **** again.