By Mark Vester

WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler is hungry for a unification bout with unbeaten WBC champ Carl Froch. Both fighters are involved in Showtime's Super Six Tournament. Froch defends against undefeated Andre Dirrell on October 17 in Nottingham. Kessler faces undefeated Andre Ward on November 7 in Oakland, California. Kessler is already looking ahead to a showdown with Froch.

“As a fighter you only think one fight at a time, but if I have to fight Carl, I think it will be a massive fight. I have watched Carl become a world champion. Before I fought Joe Calzaghe, two years ago, he was not a big name then. But he’s a big name now, he has a dangerous kind of style. I admire him. I think it’s going to be a great fight," Kessler told The Telegraph.

Kessler has a lot of respect for Froach. He views him as the fighter to take the throne that Calzaghe left behind in the British boxing scene.

"He has the heart of a champion, and you have to have this in this sport. I think a fight between the two of them would have been very, very good. Calzaghe is a difficult fighter, who makes life difficult for you, has great handspeed but not great power. But in Carl, you have a real man, a real warrior. To get up off the floor against Taylor and then beat him in the US showed him what he is made of. Britain has a genuine world champion in this guy from Nottingham," Kessler said.

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