Froch deserves credit for fighting away so much.

No. Part of the agreement between Ireland and Great Britain is that someone from Northern Ireland has the right to choose their nationality. Guess where McCloskey's nationality is. That's why McCloskey always says he is fighting at ''home'' in Donegal, because he's Irish.

 

Then substitute someone else in the example who fights out of Northern Ireland like Magee. It doesn't change my initial point, it just wasn't the world's best example.

 

The examples you use involve two domestic, in this case British fighters, fighting each other which isn't the same thing as two fighters from different nations

 

Calzaghe was Welsh and had many fights in mainland England so does he count as a road warrior aswell? ( imo he does and so does Glen)

 

cotto looks iiiiiiillllllll in your avvy dude

 

:deal Nobody and i mean NOBODY in the world at Supermiddle has the resume and CV that Carl Froch has.

Goes ANYWHERE...fights ANYONE...ALWAYS exciting...and he gets the job done.

Hes number 1 without a shadow of a doubt

 

You're proving my point.

 

His example makes perfect sense. Magee is Irish but technically he is from the UK. Magee's fan base in in Ireland, Froch's in England, so if Magee is fighting in Nottingham he is fighting away from home. It's the same for US fighters travelling to different states.

Ireland and England are separate nations in case you didn't know.

 

So we all agree Calzaghe wasnt a stay at home fighter then? Glad thats sorted

 

I agree with you on Froch. **** knows why you have to have a dig at Glen Johnson of all people in order to make a good point about Froch, but your anti-anyone-who-isn't-from-the-UK mindset has been noted before.

I think Froch deserves immense credit for his fight-anyone-anywhere mentality. I have massive respect for his performances on the road vs Taylor, Kessler and Abraham.

He is everything that Joe Calzaghe was not - a true warrior who doesn't give a **** about zero-protecting and cherrypicking. :good

 

Johnson's major fights against Americans, since we're established that it's not the same if two people based out of the same country fight each other outside of where their fan bases reside:

Allan Green - Las Vegas - neutral ground
Yusaf Mack - Ft. Lauderdale - home
Tavoris Cloud - St. Louis - Neutral ground
Chad Dawson - Hartford - Dawson's backyard
Chad Dawson - St. Petersburg - neutral ground
Montell Griffin - Ft. Lauderdale - home
Antonio Tarver - Memphis - neutral ground
Antonio Tarver - Los Angeles - Neutral Ground
Roy Jones - Memphis - away
Julio Cesar Gonzalez - SoCal, which for all intents and purposes against a Mexican is away
Omar Sheika - Philly - Sheika's backyard
Syd Vanderpool - New Orleans - Vanderpool's backyard
Eric Harding - New York, Harding's backyard
Merqui Sosa - Chicago, neutral
Bernard Hopkins, California, neutral


And against foreign fighters:
Clinton Woods - UK - away (all three times)
Thomas Ulrich - Germany - away
Toks Owoh - UK - away
Silvio Branco - Italy - away
Sven Ottke - Germany - away
Marcelo Zimmerman - Aruba - away

So in 20+ major fights, he's fought at home twice, and he's never faced a foreign fighter anywhere other than that fighter's backyard (unless you want to count Gonzalez, who was a Mexican fighting out of SoCal with the fight in SoCal).

Of course, all of this will be moot when Johnson inveitably fights Froch in Nottingham.

 

Its a shame the final 3 fights cant all be in a neutral country

 

froch is the only one that won with out being in his backyard.cause untill that point everyone who fought in there backyard won the fight.glen did it as well, now they get to fight.and glen will lose if he cant ko froch.im not even going to count rds glens wins in that fight because it want matter.

 

Agreed. Just a few recent examples the other way.....

Malignaggi was not at home in Texas vs Diaz in the 1st fight.

Allan Green was not at home vs Ward in Oakland.


Home is where your fanbase is. And its relative, with a lot of different factors.

 

I dont think it's a real life picture mate. Otherwise Cotto has a double-jointed forearm.