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

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I heard someone say on here that Palle's out of the loop now anyway. I have no idea if it's true though. He best be:twisted:.

 

I agree a tournament's the right way of moving forward, but it strikes me as fairly simple (in this instance) that they could meet mandatory obligations at the same time. Certainly on the WBC side - 1-3 are all very strong contenders.

 

Ward and Dirrell are a real threat to anybody, even Kessler! Mainly because they are both the mostphysically talented.

I think they'd beat the **** out of Froch if their chins are any good.

 

to be fair your seriously under rate Froch though?

 

What am I supposed to be rating him highly on? He's got no boxing skill and his defence is the worst I've seen at the top level of super middleweight. His power is not one punch power, its an accumulative power that won't always save his ass. His output is not even spectacular, infact its average, and his physical ability is awful. He moves like an 80 yr old.

He's a tough hombre, tons of heart, good power, some nice offensive variation.

Maybe he is a little more than the sum of his parts and I do underrate him, he could be one of those fighters that is effective but just look slack, because he does not look like much in the ring. I believe he'll be out on his ass in this tournament.

For damn sure Dirrell and Ward would make him look a fool, I'm not even 100% confident about Kessler against them because they are fast and skilled. Kessler might be more refined, its timing against speed. Only a question of durability and experience for them.

 

I think that Froch is allot faster and more effective that people realise, and if he was as slow as we think surley fighters would just move out of the way of his punches.

Froch has very good foot work, and is brilliant at keeping his fighters in range. He can dictate a fight, a true ring genral. His defense is poor but i think he slips allot more punches than we think.

 

He must be to get a couple of good wins under his belt. He just looks terrible in there...but he got the job done over decent fighters.

He is definitely slow mind, he wasn't landing **** against Taylor until 6 rounds and Taylor starts to tire. And that's not because he's inaccurate. I mean it is pretty evident he's slow, his arms look like a guy punching underwater.

Maybe he does slip some punches, it can look worse than it is when you lean away from punches. Toney was like that, it looked like he was getting hit but on closer inspection it wasn't the case. Nevertheless, we can't ignore the windmill right hand Robin Reid landed, the right Taylor landed when he was square on that put him on the canvas. He's taken a volume of heavy blows in only a few fights at world class.

 

true, but if you look at him at a couple of days after the fight, he did not look that marked up after the pascal and taylor wins.

I fancy him over everyone in the tourney bar Kessler.

 

Wards a dark horse in this, I've only seen him twice but he seems a very decent boxer.

 

Bit racist mate.

 

was ward a gold medal winner???

 

Really?Have you seen him?

His footwork is terrible,absolutely terrible.

 

frochs strength is his ability to make fighters wilt and mentally give in. he's had quite a few fights where you could argue after 7/8/9 rounds he's probably been down on the cards(and his standard of opponent hasnt been very high bar his last 2 fights), but when you've thrown everything at a guy, and he's still coming forward throwing hurtful punches and you know he's not going to take a backwards step and you're not going to put a meaningful dent in him, then it can crush a fighters spirit and thats' generally when he starts to take over. same sort of scenario with prime margarito, not the most skilled, but incredibly tough and mentally unbreakable.

froch has just enough skill to hang with the best guys to make his style work, but theres no doubt in my mind that someone like kessler would be too much for him. not sure about ward or dirrell though.

 

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