By Mark Vester
WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch is not worried about the officials in Denmark. He travels over to fight Mikkel Kessler on April 24 in the second stage of the Super Six tournament. Froch is confident the WBC appointed officials will do the right thing.
"I don't feel I need a knockout to win. I won't look for a knockout, I'm a big puncher. If the knockout comes, it comes. I'm the WBC champion. It's honorable title and an honorable governing body. I don't go into a fight expecting to knock someone out," Froch said.
Froch has been chasing the Kessler fight for a very long time. Andre Ward may have taken some steam out of the upcoming fight when he dominated Kessler in their first stage bout. At one time Froch thought Kessler was the biggest fight he could make, next to Joe Calzaghe. He doesn't seem to look at the Kessler fight in the same light.
"It's a great defense of my title. The greatest match [of my career] was winning the title from Jean Pascal. That was a night I'll never forget, fighting for the vacant title that Joe Calzaghe vacated because Joe Calzaghe knew what everyone else knew, that I would have knocked him out," Froch said.
"Beating Jean Pascal was a very memorable night, a great night. A very big fight was defending the traveling over to defend the title against Jermain Taylor in the middle of the forrest. I came into a sticky patch in the third round to come back and annihilate him in the last two rounds. I don't there is something that will top that, other than moving up a weight division and winning a title or winning the Super Six."
