By Mark Vester
A war is brewing for April 24. Carl Froch will head to Denmark to defend his WBC super middleweight title against Mikkel Kessler in Herning. Froch-Kessler is a second stage bout in the Super Six super middleweight tournament. Speaking with British pundit Steve Bunce of The Mirror, Froch made it clear that Kessler has all of the advantages that night but it won't matter in the end. Froch plans to win big.
"He has all the advantages - he is at home, the crowd will be on his side and he knows defeat means the end of his Super Six dream. His biggest advantage will be the fact that he will not want to let any of his devoted fans down and I've seen up close and personal just how loud they can be," Froch said.
Kessler was the favorite to win the tournament when Showtime first put it together. Andre Ward boxed Kessler's ears off in the first stage of fights. Froch wants to finish the job in April by knocking Kessler out of the tournament finals.
"That defeat makes this fight even better because Kessler is an old-school warrior and he wants to win the Super Six and not take an early bath - it's my job now to make sure that he gets beat again. There will be 10,000 in Herning and I know that it will be a hostile place, but I have to make sure that I take a lot of my supporters with me," Froch said.
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