Please for christ sake do not let Froch fight ward again, what is there to gain? latest reports is andre ward has said hes open to a rematch but does not think froch will take it, almost as if taunting him take it. my annoyance for froch has grown so much recently.
After the Groves fight I don't think even Froch would take this Ward offer.He is now arguably only the SECOND best SMW in the UK.
I really can't see why Carl would go for the Ward fight ahead of Groves. Even if the dangling carrot of avenging the defeat is there for him I think in his heart he must know that there is no winning this fight. He almost admitted as much with a slip of the tongue he made at the Groves press conference where in defending his record he said that Ward is a fighter who will "probably never be beaten." Even if he does seriously want Ward next though I'd think that Eddie and McCracken would be less keen and will be nudging him elsewhere. There's big money in fighting Ward but there's also huge money in fighting Groves. Ward has HBO but a second Groves fight would pull much bigger ppv numbers over here as well as potentially a much larger live attendance. It's the fight that most are demanding (does anyone on either side of the pond really want to see Froch-Ward II?), the big money is there, and most importantly from Froch's point of view it's an eminently more winnable fight. With both head and heart I would think that the natural conclusion to for Carl come to has to be that Groves is the obvious choice. Nothing else makes close to as much sense....unless he'd rather retire.
Froch has more chance of beating groves again than ever beating ward. The money will also be good for a Groves re match. i can't see the Groves rematch not happening. Unless Froch gets offered a career high purse vs Chavez Jr.
his stock has nt fallen that far he is proven at world level for over 5 years and whilst his performance against gg was well below standard i feel people are getting carried away and he is allowed an off day and still won the fight using his customary tough resilence and a bit of help from the ref, froch is a world class operator and thus warrants respect all this he is the second best smw in the uk is a drastic over reaction imo people are fotgetting groves lost and groves lost because his tactics were poor in the second half of the fight and there is nothing to say he wont make the same mistake again and thus get beat again
Two big stumbling blocks... 1. Froch knows Ward takes him to school again. He doesn't really fancy the fight and is only talking it up to further his so-called 'warrior' image. Deep down, Froch wants nothing to do with Ward. 2. Ward will never, ever be stupid enough to fight Froch in Britain. He doesn't need to and he wouldn't risk being robbed the way so many others have been lately. He knows what goes on over here.