Anderson Sparring With Froch: I'll Finish George Groves!

KENNY ANDERSON bids to become Hatton Promotions latest champion next week and has warned George Groves: “I am going to make a mess of you.”

Anderson challenges for Groves’s Commonwealth super-middleweight crown at Manchester’s MEN Arena on November 13 in the chief supporting bout to the WBA heavyweight title fight between David Haye against Audley Harrison.

And the Edinburgh hopeful who has won all 12 professional contests has promised to be a show stealer when he faces the touted Londoner.

Anderson, 27, said: “Groves should watch out and worry about who is behind him – ME. I am a man and he is a wee boy, and I will make a mess of him.

“His team took the same risks with David Haye in his 11th fight and he came unstuck against Carl Thompson.

“The same thing is going to happen to Groves in his 11th fight. David is an exceptional fighter and could bounce back, but Groves isn’t one and I am going to finish him.

“I have respect for any fighter, but he has got merits he doesn’t deserve and will come a cropper against me.

“I am not under-estimating Groves, but look at his opponents. Groves has fought just one British fighter, Paul Samuels. The rest have been hand picked foreigners."

Anderson has spent the last two weeks sparring with former WBC super-middleweight champion, Carl Froch and insists he is in top shape despite taking the Groves fight at ten days notice.

He added: “It has come at short notice, but I am not surprised. My trainer Kevin Maree said something like this would happen and he was right.

“I was already training for a British title eliminator later this month and I have had two weeks sparring with Carl Froch which has brought me on a lot.

“Carl is a tremendous fighter, a great person and just a much better version of George Groves.”