Abraham was being pushed back all night against Dirrell. While I think Dirrell is a better fighter than Froch, he is not so powerful. Froch will push Abraham back all night and get round his gaurd with looping punches. Froch may not be the greatest skilled fighter in the world but he has an akward style and is harder to beat than the primitive Abraham. Froch UD 12 or very late TKO
Froch has a very strong chin, he has heart and he has stamina, he has power he has awkwardness, he has height, he has size, he has rough tactics and he has a good workrate. Abraham has heart, chin and power....he is small, he has a low workrate, he is very predictable, he is very primitive and he stays in his shell far too long. Froch will make Abraham fight three minutes of every round and Abraham wnot keep up.
Dirrell's punches are straighter, more accurate and a lot sharper than Froch's so that's not a good comparison. It can also be argued that Dirrel punches just as hard as Froch. He floored Abraham and had Froch hurt in their fight, these are two guys who apparently have granite chins. Abraham TKO.
Abraham is top 5 P4P puncher in the world at the minute, I think Abraham by late stoppage. If it goes the distance then I think Froch will nick it my SD or MD. Depends how many rounds Abraham gives away, for instance he can't throw away the amount of rounds he did against Dirrell.
If froch gets drawn into a war he will lose,no questions.He has to play it smart and show that he has got a boxing brain by using his jab and working from the outside and keeping AA at range. If he can do that he should win comfortably on points,or maybe a late stoppage if AA gets desperate.If he tries to fight fire with fire he will get ko'd no doubt about it.He needs to show that hes got the skill and the boxing brain as well well as the heart and chin which we all know he has
I'm going for Froch as well....I've never been convinced with Abraham bring successful in this tournament. In this fight Froch is actually facing a slower starter than himself. If he can utilise this and gain a points lead I think he'll win. I also thinks rounds 6-12 will be FOTY material :yep
If Froch could do this he'd have beaten Kessler. You have to assume Froch will take his usual gameplan in there. Besides, trying to keep AA at range with a jab won't work, he'll just soak it up.
What we've seen from Froch is a guy who's been lucky enough to be in with either skittish or shopworn fighters since facing Pascal, and he lost to Kessler clearly whatever some try and make out - it wasn't really a close fight. If Dirrell had committed more early on, Froch would have been knocked out. Taylor was kicking the **** out of him for six rounds before Froch pulled it back as Taylor did his usual fade. And Kessler, well he beat lost to the Dane. Froch's appalling technique is finally catching up with him and, against the defensively sound Abraham, I expect he's going to struggle. He has neither the workrate, combination punching nor balance to keep Abraham off balance all night. He'll be competitive, but I can't see him winning.
Froch has a small chance to beat Abraham. But he's tailor made for Arthur who has the power to stop Froch. Froch's hands are too low, his punches too wide. Arthur's tight guard will stop a lot of Froch's punches and AA will time the perfect shots to punish him. Froch needs to work Abraham's body, but I can't see him getting shots in without taking a lot back. Arthur via 9th round TKO.
froch has a very underated jab that needs to be used in this fight, if he gets drawn into a swing up with artur which i reckon he will then its all over, abraham punches too straight and hard for my liking as froch throws wide and likes to loop the big ones, if it goes the distance then depending on where it is will obviously be a big factor.