Daruiz Michalczewski vs Carl Froch

Carl Froch is a really tough opponent who will hurt you (no matter if you are better skill wise) Froch has proved his toughness and ability to turn fights around several times. Would be a good fight.

 

I'm not saying Groves is on par with DM, far from it, DM would walk through him.

What I am saying is that people don't just walk through Froch. Guys with chins like Froch are not going to just balk at the prospect of facing a bigger puncher and go into a shell like so many other DM opponents. Froch would fire back even when getting hit cleanly and DM was pretty easy to hit himself, it would be competitive because of their styles.

 

Hopkins was wobbled by Taylor in their first fight yet his chin held up at light heavy against punchers like Kovalev and Pascal, though of course Froch is easier to hit than BHop.

Eubank also got dropped by the average puncher in Collins but when he moved up to cruiser showed an iron chin against Thompson.

Even the iron chinned Toney has been dropped at lower weight yet showed an iron chin at heavy.

It's easy to pick on single instances like the Taylor knockdown and be fooled into thinking a certain way. I mean people actually questioned DM's chin for a long time because of what happened in the Rochiggiani fight fight where he took an innocuous shot after a break but looked like he'd been hit with a bat.

Froch does have an iron chin and even a puncher like DM would likely have to work hard to stop Froch and eat a lot of punches himself to get that stoppage.

 

Groves hit him with EVERYTHING and couldn't get it done.

Kessler, too.

Buzzed and laid out are two different things.

If it's not granite at SMW, whose chin is then? Name them.

 

Tiger wins.

Froch is a fantastic fighter and I like him a lot, but he's not really a top-tier talent in terms of skill, fluidity and athleticism. He's a tough dude who punches hard as hell.

I think Tiger is a level above Froch.

 

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Shades of Kosta, indeed! :good

 

But Carl knocked out 80,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium in front of George Groves.

This is a complete mismatch. DM's power jab would do a number on Carl's nose.

 

Thanks for saving me the trouble of explaining :good

The critic is also failing to mention that Taylor was outboxed for the last 6 rounds before being beaten to a standstill.

Groves was TKO'd prematurely after the KD in the first fight, and KTFO in the rematch.

To suggest that Frochs chin is anything but granite suggests a hater.

To suggest that Taylor and Groves can't punch is embarrassing.

 

Good matchup. DM was a lazy, slow starter same as Froch. It would start slow and tentatively, then I think this would be a brutal toe-to-toe battle from round 5-6 on. DM was susceptible to cuts. Might favor Froch here for a late TKO on cuts.

 

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