Froch: "I've Always Done Well Against Southpaws"

Boxingnews24.com Scott Gifoid22nd September, 2009

WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (25-0, 20 KO's) likes his chances against American Andre Dirrell (18-0, 13 KO's) on October 17th, saying to Live Fight "Once I get my right hand going it usually closes the show." That indeed is true. What Froch fails to say is that it usually closes the show against the mediocre European fighters that he's spent the majority of his career fighting.

Against Froch's best two opponents, Jermain Taylor and Jean Pascal, Froch, 32, was only able to knockout Taylor, who already had been stopped previously by a smaller middleweight Kelly Pavlik. I can understand Froch wanting to do a little bit of bragging about himself, but come on, you got to come up with something better than the European fodder that Froch has built his record on. That's like me strutting around patting myself on the back about being the best kickball player in the 6th grade. Froch has got to come up with something better than this.

Froch: "I've always done well against southpaws. Magee and Tatevosyan were both southpaws and I'm the only person to halt them both in style." Who? I never heard of either of these guys. I had to You tube both of them and almost died with laughter.

What the heck is Froch doing throwing those names around as an argument that he'll do well against the southpaw Dirrell. There's no comparison between Dirrell's talent and fighters like Magee and Tatevosyan. Froch would have been better off not mentioning names at all if he wanted to sound more credible.

Froch goes on to point out that southpaw fighters have problems against him. I believe Froch. Of course they would. Dude, you haven't fought anyone with a pulse, get it?

The funniest part of the interview is where Froch mentions Dirrell's isolated training location in the mountains, saying "If anything being isolated up there is giving him [Dirrell] nothing else to think about but me. Thoughts of me catch up with and ripping him apart." I sounds like Froch has got a real imagination. He's really inflated his own self importance to the point where he sees Dirrell thinking about him. Yeah, I bet he is. Dirrell thinks Froch will be his easiest opponent in the Super Six tourney and isn't worried in the least about fighting him. Believe me, Dirrell is ice cold calm. He's not worried about Froch at all. There's no fear on Dirrell's part.

Froch then starts in with the excuses when told that Dirrell has watched his fight with Jermain Taylor. "I've dealt with broken ribs, a cruciate ligament operation and an ulcerated cornea before the first bell rang." Thankfully, Froch didn't go further than this in moaning about his aches and pains. But it's funny to see Froch making excuses about his crummy performance against Taylor.

I guess he feels he needs to because Froch was getting the living daylights kicked out of him up until Taylor ran out of gas in the later rounds. I should have guessed that Froch would have an excuse for his off night. I don't know why Froch just didn't just lay it on the table and talk straight and just say, 'Taylor was good and I sucked.' I could respect that. Froch did look horrible in that fight until Taylor got tired. Why not just tell it like it is instead of mentioning injuries?

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