C Froch vs H Wharton

Yes he would.

 

Wharton had brutal power at 168, a strong jaw and threw really nice combos.he was thoroughly methodical\slow of foot and the kind of fighter who seemed to stay in a Sparring partner-esque 3rd gear for long stretches if you played it cautious with him.. but could be impressive offensively against someone coming straight at him or staying at ring-centre throwing a high volume.

Sort of a 168 Jose Luis Lopez who was even worse against movers.

I expect Froch could win a close decision if he respects him and uses his reach and awkward outside skills to edge away and turn Henry when he gets set to thrown combinations.It would be quite close though.Froch is no masterboxer.

If he tries to have a war with Wharton, he could end up getting his skull caved in.

50\50 fight.Froch could well be on the receiving end of what he did to Jermaine Taylor.

 

if 'a Nigel Ben could outbox Wharton then .....:roll:

 

More a case of Wharton freezing for 4.9 rounds IMO. He didn't throw a punch until the last second of the 5th round, and that KD'd Nigel heavily - Henry's famed left-hook. From there, it was a 50/50 fight with Benn having to rope-a-dope and duck below knee height to get by...

Also Benn is a grossly underrated boxer - he outboxed Rod Douglas in the amateurs and caught Sanderline Williams with more boxer-type right hands than SW was ever caught with...he also failed to waste one punch in 16 rounds against highly awkward Galvano...and, used his rolling-weaving to off-balance and counter out both Eubank and McClellan in WBC defenses. He also outjabbed 6ft4 Lenzie Morgan, who had just himself outjabbed Tiozzo is a gross robbery. Nigel certainly wasn't flat-footed, either.

 

I like how Wharton would quadruple up his left hooks!

 

To be honest it's hard for me to vision this match

 

Jesus, the Ward defeat has got people under rating Froch big time. He is a level above what Wharton ever was. Froch wins a clear UD in this one.

 

Froch was schooled by a shot Taylor and green Dirrell, lost to a shot Kessler and did far better than I expected against a one-handed Ward.

 

Froch ud. Wharton had his qualities but was a bit slow and if Froch boxes him at long range he should win clearly.

 

Froch wasn't/isn't exactly fast...

 

Wharton was and is a great lad, tough, determined, game and ikeable but I woud have to favour Froch.

 

Who did Eubank stop at 168 other than Watson. Then look at who took him the course.

Benn struggled with a green drained Piper. He was hurt by weak punchers.

Carl has a good chance to win against Chris. Less so against Benn. But to say he can't last the distance is unfounded by anything we have seen.

Chris could not box on the front foot, at a high pace, etc etc

 

I don't have time to discuss all your points.

But I saw Benn beat Rod Douglas and it was not done byboutboxing him

 

The first fight in '85 he was outboxing him but Douglas came on and was too powerful for him and beat him up in the end. Consider Rod went 50/50 with world #1 Shawn O'Sullivan in '84.

The second Benn/Douglas fight was a brawl from the off, with Benn looking more powerful at the higher weight and knocking Rod down a few times - Rod went on to dominate and bash up Jeff Harding in the Commonwealths quite easily.

 

Not the point. The point is that Froch is wide open to Eubank's untelegraphed right hand that was laced with power, and Carl has shaky resistance (Reid, Taylor) of course.
He damaged Watson with it (R11 before KD's), Jarvis, sent Giminez reeling with an arm punch version and nearly stopped Watson first time (R5), Lindell Holmes and Close late second time with it (LH had never been close to being stopped -Van Horn thing was a body shot/exhaustion/one knee/fast count) and landed it beautifully against Benn (who took McClellan's right hands) in R7 of their first fight and R3 of their second fight...scored phenonemal KD's against Storey and Barratubena with it and sent Steve Collins over with it (who had only ever been down from body shots against K.Watts) - landed it at will against Calzaghe.
Point is, he could land it and you couldn't see it, and Froch eats them flush every fight since Westerman.