In which round will Carl Froch stop Denis Inkin?

Offer?

After Bute beat Tatevosyan, he was offered an eliminator fight to be Berrio's mandatory. Froch was then offered the opportunity to fight Bute in that eliminator. It was the fastest way to a title. He declined. Bika accepted. Bute fought Bika and Froch fought...Tatevosyan. Bute then fought Berrio and Froch fought...Reid. After the Reid fight, Froch said Tatevosyan had told him how much better he was than Bute. Froch also said he'd easily have KO'ed both Bute and Berrio and would in fact have finished "glass-chinned joke" Berrio faster than Bute, for after all, he had dispatched Tatevosyan early, and Bute didn't dispatch him at all.

So...after dodging Bute, Froch fought the man Bute just beat and bragged how he'd KO...Bute...and Berrio. (He also mentioned how Kessler wasn't the test he looked for; he wanted Joe, who beat Kessler, and that he'd beat Joe too, but that's another story)

That's it.

 

Back to the thread...

I think round 9 or 10. Froch will not wait longer than that because it might be too late. He'll want to force it quite early, to see what's what. By the 9th or the 10th...he'll get it on.

 

There was never any chance of Joe fighting Froch after Kessler. Nothing has changed. Froch is only calling out Joe because it keeps his name in the papers and casual fans might think he might be able to beat Joe. We all know that, Froch and Joe included.

Also...

Are you suggesting Froch dodged Bute because he had a knee problem?

Did he develop that knee problem after the Tatevosyan fight? If so, it means he didn't have it when he decided to fight Tatevosyan. So, in that case, why fight the man Bute beat instead of Bute himself, if you know you can KO the guy anyway? If he had done that, Froch would have gotten a shot at Berrio for the belt.

Or did he develop that knee problem before the Tatevosyan fight? If so, it means he fought Tatevosyan with a dodgy knee! But why would he have done that given that he fought Tatevosyan only four months after his previous fight? If he had developed a knee problem before the Tatevosyan fight, he would have seen to that and would have fought e.g. Tatevosyan later...it wasn't as if Tatevosyan was in a hurry, having been beaten up by Bute less than two months previously, or that Froch was getting stale due to inactivity; after all, he fought Tatevosyan as early as four months after his previous fight. See, Steve, that doesn't make sense one way or the other.

Now, I am not saying that Froch didn't have knee problems or that he didn't have the operation. He did. We all know that. What I am saying is that the knee problem wasn't so critical that it would have stopped Froch from fighting Bute instead of Tatevosyan. And supposing that it was, after all, so critical, instead of fighting Tatevosyan, Froch should have sorted out his knee and accepted to fight Bute after he recovered, in the eliminator. But he didn't think he was ready. And the dodge knee is only an excuse for dodging Bute. So, not only did Froch dodge Bute, but he talked trash about how he'd KO him and Berrio too, whilst at the same time using a dodgy excuse for not fighting Bute in the first place. Not cricket, is it?

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(If you want to continue this chat, please start a thread on the subject...I don't want this thread to be about anything but Froch v. Inkin). Cheers, mate. :good