Froch: DeGale Beats Groves Every Day, It's a Mismatch!

By Terence Dooley

London's George Groves posted a seventh-round RSF win over New Jersey's Denis Douglin at Liverpool's Echo Arena tonight to keep himself on-course for a shot at WBC Super middleweight titlist Anthony Dirrell in 2015.  Despite picking up a cut over his nose, Groves, 21-2 (16), kept his composure and worked his straight right hand well to take a TKO win over the visitor, who drops to 17-4 (10).

"It was what I needed," said Groves when speaking to Sky Sports.  "He put up a great fight.  You've got to find your distance and range against someone in the opposite stance.  Roll on the big one, the WBC.  The WBC is the quickest route and Sauerland, my promoters, will try to secure it in the very near future."

Carl Froch, who stopped Groves in Manchester last November before brutally knocking him out in May at Wembley Stadium, dismissed the Londoner’s performance.

“I think he's been Cobra'd,” said Froch. “It’s the same with Lucian Bute. He was in there struggling with a Light Middleweight, he was getting caught by shots that at World level would knock him out.

“Let DeGale and Groves fight each other and maybe I will fight the winner, but it's a mismatch, DeGale beats Groves every day of the week.”

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