Definitely. They TOTALLY nullified any "Southpaw" advantage Bute might have had. I don't think he landed a single uppercut to the body, the entire fight.
Nah. Froch's faults are there for all to see, but his strenghts are too and those were just too much for Bute who never deserved that no. 1 ranking, imo.
While not making excuses... Both froch and his trainer have said not everything was right on the night of the ward fight... Without elaborating we wont know....but they do admit they were beaten by better man and wont look for excuses
Carl Froch would do the right by getting a rematch against Kessler before fighting Dirrell. Anthony Dirrel needs to go back and get medical clearance from Dr. Shaw-Hi in order to fight Andre Ward. It's called taking care of unfinished business.
Honestly that same could be said about Ward with his hand hurt going into the fight.. its a wash.. So no excuses for either man Froch just got beat that night.. I think your wrong here questioning Wards Power, balls and killer instinct.. Ward had enough power to keep a warrior like Froch off his ass.. He even had Froch going backwards at times in their fight.. Ward can speak on his own balls.. ill leave that to him.. If Froch was able to bum rush Bute and KO him.. Why does that make what Ward could do against Bute weaker.. Ward murders fighters on the inside.. Bute as shown tonight has no inside game.. Ward eats him alive all day inside and make sure the fight stay there... Why cause he clearly has the skils to do so...:hey
After last night's performance, Froch would have a higher chance of defeating Ward, if based in nottingham.
Snake blood - it can fit in a pipe, trust! I don't believe Froch was 100% in his fight against Ward, and he tends to perform a lot better when based at home. So, such a prediction doesn't seem as farfetched as you're making be.
I would actually like to see the Dirrell Rematch in Britian... as long as Dirrell doesn't run like a ***** again it could be a pretty good fight..