May i start off by saying i hate ICB and nameless from the very pit of my very angry stomach and will take my revenge on both of them when i decide to pounce.
I write this as i have received many requests for me to explain my thoughts on the fight itself. This isnt a biased review of the fight, as i have explained many MANY times i find carl froch to be a somewhat of an arrogant twat and i dislike mikkel kessler for being foreign. This is pretty much what i saw and have since seen over and over again since the fight took place and im sure theres a good few people that will think im completely right.
At the time of the fight i was at my great mate grahams house to watch the fight due to the fact he had booked it on primetime and i was way too tight to pay the £15 needed to watch it at home. I was surprisingly sober at the time due to feeling the need to sober up while out because i assumed the fight would be shown at silly o`clock on US tv and only got told at 9pm that the card had already started me and graham rushed back to his house which was quite fine as it had been another very uneventful evening for catching poontang.
round 1-tentative start from both guys, both guys feeling eachother out as you would say. Froch goes to the body early doors and kessler tends to concentrate on finding any openings that arent there. For the most part of the round froch is the guy looking to sense an opening and kessler seems on the defensive. Froch trys to land bombs but gets nowhere
end of round 1:
Froch: 10
Kessler: 9 = 10-9 froch
round 2-finally things actually gets going. Kessler decides its time to fight on the front foot and froch obliges by allowing the space to close up. Kessler trys to desperately take the initative but every time is frustrated by frochs counters and the fact he is landing the far heavier punches. Kessler trys to smother frochs work and carl simply uses that to his advantage picking kessler off when he gets the chance.
end of round 2:
Froch: 10
Kessler: 9 = 20-18 froch
round 3 - frochs most dominant of the 3rounds. Kessler ups his work rate, carl just uses what god gave him and comes back at him with faster, harder counter punching. The fans are getting more and more into this fight as it goes on, the opening exchanges are dull but finally the 2 fighters are deciding its time to go to work. Kessler takes some hard exchanges towards the end of round 3 and froch realises he has him in a trance. You can clearly hear frochs girlfriend rachael something shouting for carl as they are the only brits in the crowd it appears. Its at this point that i head to the fridge to get me and my great mate graham another beer because all of this is making us thirsty.
end of round 3:
Froch: 10
Kessler: 9 = 30-27 froch
round 4 - its as if as each round goes by the 2 guys decide its time to get working. Kessler again ups his tempo and froch counters that with superior counter punching. Excellent work from froch who has his opponents number every time they come forward. At one stage froch has the confidence to start potshotting his opponent and even raises his fist to the fans to indicate he is in control of the fight. Kessler finally begins to land some big overhand rights towards the end of the round and the opinion is that he is finally growing in confidence.
end of round 4:
Froch: 10
Kessler: 9 = 40-36 froch
round 5 - the round of the fight and what i assumed would be the deciding factor in it. Kessler comes out much more aggresive than previous and froch matches him on the backfoot again. Kessler gets beat to the punch every single time and appears to become frustrated with the fact he is being heavily beat and resorts to trying to wrestle carl into making a mistake. Midway through the round froch lands a counter that sends kessler to the floor in a heap, only hang on.........the biased ref has ruled this a slip, a punch lands clean on the face, the fighter goes over.......its a slip?? at this point many of us begin questioning is this a showtime screwjob. Think about it only 1 man has a 100% record, all the fighters that have fought in their hometowns have won and it makes for a hell of a lot better viewing having a wide open tournament than one that is dominated by one particular fighter (carl froch)
end of round 5:
Froch: 10
Kessler: 8 = 50-44 froch
round 6 - Kesslers back. Its as if a different man has entered the ring (another conspiracy that he could at any stage been secretly given a performance enhancing drug, why is he so entent on suddenly drinking from his waterbottle more and more?). Dominates with that amazing jab of his and suddenly froch is getting beat to the punch all of a sudden, makes light work of carls desperate attempts to wrestle his opponent and takes the round at ease.
end of round 6:
Froch: 9
Kessler: 10 = 59-54 froch
round 7 - Kessler senses a turn in the fight and just like 6 has realised its now much more better to put the pressure on and take the fight to his opponent. Froch seems relaxed, too relaxed. Kessler is once again landing his overhand right freely and froch seems disoriantated and struggling to find an answer to kesslers aggression, though he is landing very little in power punches its clear to see that mikkel has upped his game and froch is struggling to deal with the pace thats been laid out.
end of round 7:
froch: 9
kessler: 10 = 68-64 froch
it was a slip in the 5th round watch the replay , froch didnt land only air!!
As blatant a knockdown as you can get
It was the exact same incident that floored abraham against dirrell and yet that got scored a knockdown, why??
because sauerland and showtime are conspiring against carl froch who we all know is the best super middleweight in the world right now
John Ruiz is the top fighter of all time? Great stuff
Have never claimed ruiz is the best fighter of all time
I have him, ali and louis tied as the greatest heavyweights that ever lived but we will never know who was the best of the 3 because they are all from different generations.
PS:For those wishing to hear more of my fantastic "john ruiz awareness" ive a ton of old vids, links etc to back up my claim that he is the greatest heavyweight of our generation
its my personal list of my top faves of all time, where the hell does it say "p4p top 5 all time rankings"
twat
oi cunt when did i say he was in your p4p list???stop making up shit silly little boy
Seems like you score boxing in a weird way I was routing for Froch but I had kessler two rounds up my scoring, If u give all the close rounds to Froch because he was the champion then you can make a case for him to get a narrow win, Old Skool judges who used to judge like this would have gave it to Froch
read through your posts again,your a retard who has no clue about boxing,youve got froch in your top 5 of all time,of coures you think he won,froch said he was going there for the knockout and got beat by 3-4 clear rounds,end off,next fight AA knocks himout
its my personal list of my top faves of all time, where the hell does it say "p4p top 5 all time rankings"
twat
Third viewing, i muted the TV set, 6-6 draw.
I didn't watch it live, downloaded it a watched it the day after. I got the same score, 6-6. I didn't mute it though, I always get bored with no commentary or foreign commentary, not sure why.
Big words for a little man, do you kiss your boyfriend with that mouth?:gay:
black-ink - mate i always prefer to not listen to the commentary when scoring a contest, i had froch a clear winner with sauerland and showtime obviously conspiring against him to set up this blatant injustice
read through your posts again,your a retard who has no clue about boxing,youve got froch in your top 5 of all time,of coures you think he won,froch said he was going there for the knockout and got beat by 3-4 clear rounds,end off,next fight AA knocks himout
get a life cunt,kessler beat him fair and square,116-112 to kessler,you giving froch the 1st 4 rounds says it all-cunt
Big words for a little man, do you kiss your boyfriend with that mouth?:gay:
black-ink - mate i always prefer to not listen to the commentary when scoring a contest, i had froch a clear winner with sauerland and showtime obviously conspiring against him to set up this blatant injustice
A non biased account? And you have Carl Froch as 5th best of all time???????
Even worse you got Ruiz the best of all the time!!!!!!!
Fukk outta here son.....
You really had it 8 rounds to 4, in Froch's favour?
When i was watching this fight live, i was in too much of an emotional state to think about scoring, i never score fights involving my favourite fighters the first time round, as i'm sucked into the action too much to care.
As the fight came to an end, i said to my cousin, Kessie's got this....i can smell the hometown cooking. On that first viewing, i thought Froch did well, but fighting away from home on Sauerland soil, i knew he wasn't gonna get the decision. Froch knew, as the scores were read out, he wasn't getting the decision.
I decided to score the fight on a second viewing, i gave the verdict 7 rounds to 5 in favour of Kessler.....a lot of that was crowd influenced.
Third viewing, i muted the TV set, 6-6 draw.
All in all, it was a close fight that, if in England or neutral venue, Froch would have gotten the nod.
On Danish soil, it was always going to be Kessler when going to the cards.