Does Carl need to change his style/box differently to beat Abraham

The comments about Froch having to bodyshot AA worry me, I rarely see Froch attack the body

 

Where did this Froch go? He moves like a zombie now, shame he took so long to get to world level. I see much more athletic quality in him here.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/venu44/videos/5/

 

Carl Froch's boxing style is very similar to Calzaghe's....

































































dancing style.

 

I was thinking exacly the same ...stay behind that reach advantage. Work on his stamina to be able to throw that jab as much as it's need it . Make Abraham work hard pass the jab and catch him with counters.

So he doesn't have to change anything ...only increase stamina so you can keep that jab efficient from the beginning to the end.

 

He needs to develop a defence, or he's getting stopped.

 

Abraham's power is unproven in my opinion at 168 anyway. Yes he hits hard, but I see nothing to suggest its particularly harder then any of the other participants of super 6. He KOd a probably shot Taylor and had to rely on an illegal punch against an undefended Dirrell to KO him.

 

Yeah i agree, People seem to forget that he had problems in the build up to the fight and he still kept going and found 2nd wind late on. That was the most tired i seen him so early but his stamina built over years of training took him to final bell.

I agree partly with Raashid on Abrahams' power but in saying that, he hurt Dirrell and and obviously knocked out Taylor but i don't think his power is as devastating as it was at 160 but he's still able to take down anyone who trades with him like a ******. So Froch must be careful.

 

I think Kessler's body work took quite a lot out of Froch in terms of stamina.

 

Really think Carl can do a number on him if he keeps his work rate till the end of the fight. The other thing is that AA has not proved to be the monster hitter at 168 as the knockout of a shot middleweight that had gassed doesn't count and Dirrell seemed to cope well with his power shots

 

Dirrell was getting caught at end, before he took a knee, think AA had a chance of stopping him at that stage.

 

Looks like we are on the same wave length. Must have typed at the same time!

 

Erm...Froch has an Iron chin and I dont see Abraham being the key to the lock. Froch has hanged it out to grass for years and never been in the creek before. Dont see Abraham having a new combination, the only question I have is how much punch resistance does the iron chin of all iron chins have left.

Froch will only have so much left to take, I think if he takes too much from a world class operator coming up it could be his first KO loss...but not in this fight...its not yet.

 

I think if he fights the right type of fight this could be a fairly easy night for Froch. I am also not sure that AA has the type of power at SMW to really hurt Froch, I mean Froch has showed he can handle big shots from Kessler and Pascal; does AA punch much harder than Pascal???

I also think if he works the body, Abraham can be hurt badly early on and if shows the killer instinct he lacked against Kessler I can see him stopping him