Interview with Matt Christie: http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/BN08/detail.asp?id=2694 LONG after the bruises that Andre Ward inserted beneath Carl Frochs skin have dispersed, the defeat they attributed to will remain. The fact that Carls second loss came against a boxer who appears to be one of the finest in the sport will not appease a proud warrior who has never shied from conflict. Froch is a fighter who would prefer to be painfully knocked out by a stronger man than artfully discarded by an elusive one. I got beat fair and square by a guy whos quite a messy spoiler, Froch calmly explains two days after losing the Super Six final. Ward can obviously fight, dont get me wrong, and I will not take that away from him. In fact, I dont think hell ever get beat but, at the same time, I dont think hell be a superstar. Hes not a big draw. Hes one of those fighters wholl continue to dominate at world level, unless he gets caught but hes very difficult to catch cleanly. Now the dust has started to settle, Carl does not dismantle the model of professionalism he exhibited in his post-fight interview when he offered no excuses. But, for two years, Froch has been annoyed by the smug grin that Andre has carried everywhere on his Super Six journey like a tickling stick. The Englishman couldnt wipe it from his rivals face nor stifle the frustration it caused. A frustration that bubbles when Froch is reminded of Wards comments that he hurt the Englishman on more than one occasion. He didnt hurt me, whatever he said, Carl sighs. He was just trying to make himself feel like he could do damage. Hes not a big puncher and he caught me with a couple of left hooks but they didnt hurt. I dont think he should move to light-heavyweight. Hes physically quite strong, he has strength up close but thats it. You have to give him respect but he didnt hurt me. If he had hurt me, I would have been honest about it. A couple of people have hurt me, Mikkel Kessler, Robin Reid with a shot I didnt think was going to land, but Ward is not a banger. Frochs natural instincts for revenge, desires that were uttered immediately after he was adjudged a unanimous loser, are already being culled by common sense. He concedes that a rematch is unlikely. When you lose to a fighter you always want to set the record straight, Carl admits before realism strikes. I appreciate and understand that its not a match thats going to immediately come back to me. Its not one of those that will easily be made, its not one where people will say Lets get the rematch on. One, because it wasnt an exciting fight through no fault of my own and two, hes not going to want to fight me and Im not going to go to California to fight him. Its not a feasible match, theres no rematch clause and I wouldnt get excited about fighting Andre Ward again, I really wouldnt. If the opportunity came along to set the record straight, though, its a fight I believe Id win, Id do things differently. Perhaps Carl knows, deep down, that there is not much he can do differently against a fighter like Ward. Wards hard to beat and a pain in the arse, he admits. The self-proclaimed Son Of God bettered Froch in a way that Mikkel Kessler who tightly and contentiously outscored Carl last year could not manage. Froch was convinced he beat Kessler, but against Ward, when the final bell rendered his mission impossible, "The Cobra" knew he had lost but he refutes any suggestion he took a beating. It was a feeling of frustration rather than a feeling of a beating, the 34-year-old exclaims. I was talking to [girlfriend] Rachael [Cordingley] earlier and explaining that, when youre as good as I am, or as good as Ward is, you dont really get beatings because you know how to look after yourself. You know how to move, how to slip and slide. Theres nobody out there who can give me that whupping that makes me think I should retire. There have been beatings lately, but Im too good for that, and Im not being big headed. Okay, I didnt beat Ward but I certainly didnt get beat up. Andre indeed won the fight, impressively and far more convincingly than two (115-113) of the scorecards suggested, but it is Froch who appears to have more options. While Ward blasts into the upper echelons of many pound-for-pound charts, Froch is left to sift through future opponents like Kessler, IBF champion Lucian Bute, WBC light-heavyweight boss Bernard Hopkins and his WBO counterpart Nathan Cleverly. In a sport where risk collides messily with economic reward, Ward could yet be a victim of his own success, trapped inside a body laced with gifts that he never gets the chance to fully open. For Froch, though, he can move on from this humbling defeat and go back to doing what he was put on this earth to do: Fight.
Ohhhh just shut up, you complete twat.. Froch got dominated against Ward. Dominated from pillar to post. Absolutely outboxed, outsmarted and even out-toughed. It was a total mismatch from start to finish. So no sh*t that Froch cannot have anything negative to say. Khan-Peterson on the otherhand was a very close fight in which many had Khan winning. On top of that the referee played a significant role in the fight unlike in Ward-Froch where Smoger did an excellent job as always. And do I have to bring back Froch's comments when he lost to Kessler? "I got robbed. I'm never fighting anybody in his hometown again" "I'm thinking about leaving the Super Six"
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Ward is much better than Lamont. That doesn't change the fact that Froch got outclassed in a good refereed fight and Khan-Peterson was a close fight with a negative role from the referee.
Well then you can't compare, Ward is a far better fighter then Peterson and i'm a Peterson fan. Khan if he was that good shouldn't of even had bother with ref should he? if he was that good he would of won at a canter. He didn't cos he couldn't keep range with that viper like jab that Darni and all the other cocksuckers talk of.
Froch clearly and I mean CLEARLY, lost the fight in a good refereed fight. Amir didn't get the decision in a close fight where the referee played a significant role. So why would you say: "Someone should E mail this to Amir Khan, that's how you accept defeat" when Amir got "defeated" in almost the exact opposite way as Froch did. If you want to make a better compariosn, compare Froch's reaction when he lost to Kessler to Amir's reaction when he lost to Peterson.
Hey, I also think Amir's reaction is in a not so good taste but the point I'm trying to make is that he has a case unlike Froch. Like I said, Amir is only doing this to get the rematch done. Amir already said that if the outcome is overturned he will give Lamont his rematch in a neutral venue.