...never thought these 2 would take up such a challenge, if they win the tourney I will eat an even bigger peice of humble pie. Credit is due 10000% Still back Froch to win, people are reading too much into the Taylor fight. It was a close fight (froch dominated the last half when he shook off the nerves of 1st defense in US) self doubt if any has been erased. His boxing in 2nd half of Pascalfight was also excellent. Dirrell will be a test( I beleive he is th most gifted athletically/Power) out of all 6 but we don't know how he will cope mentally, he also has been shaken up a few times in his career. I would go far to say Dirrell may win the tourney, but Im putting my money on Frochy.
Reading too much into the Taylor fight? Taylor is a known underachiever, who rarely maximizes his abilities. Still, Froch needed him to give the fight away to win. Froch didn't dominate the second half of the fight, he became competitive in the second half, which anybody can do against Taylor.
"never thought these 2 would take up such a challenge" Glad to hear, but i dont understand why: Anthony Mundine Entertainment Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Joe Calzaghe Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom Danilo Haussler Weser-Ems-Halle, Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany (Not that Haussler was a big name, but it was in Germany) And it looks like he will fight once in England, and two times in the US, in the first tree rounds
Froch will start good the tournament but if he don't change his style a little bit he will accumulate too much punishment in camp and in matches for a short period of time. That said I think he will lose in the semi-finals.
These fighters are good for Froch. Against intellegent boxers like Joe Calzaghe, Bernard Hopkins or Chad Dawson Froch has NO CHANCE of winning except by KO. He was totally outclassed by Taylor for the whole fight. He looked like Frankenstein's monster in there following Taylor around. His only gameplan was to get punched in the face until Taylor gassed out. All credit to him Froch has the heart of a lion and stamina to give Joe Calzaghe a run for his money, but on that night against Taylor he was taking a HUGE step up in class from his usual competition and it showed badly. These are going to be great fights and I see Froch having a chance against any of these competitors, the most difficult fight would be Taylor if Taylor actually had mental strength and stamina, fortunately for Froch he doesn't.
Froch will be lucky if he wins one fight in this tournament, and if he does it will be against Abraham. Dirrell will just outbox him and make him look bad and Kessler is going to knock Froch the **** out. He might beat Abraham just based on him being more active and being significantly bigger than him but i'm not counting on it. I'll be pretty shocked though if Froch wins one fight in this tournament. You would have to be a fool to put your money on him winning the whole thing.
Well I think every Dane knows that Kessler has wanted to fight the best boxers for years. But politics and a bad promoter have kept it from happening. I think this is the right step for all the boxers in the tournament. May the best man win. Dane or not
