Mikkel Kessler vs Carl Froch ...

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Kessler by ****.

Kessler by ****.

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who has kessler beat to make everyone so sure he would beat froch?

Exactly.

One way you could look at it is:

The only note worthy thing Kessler has done in his career is loose a lop sided decision to a 36 year old man who went life and death with Robin Reid.

Or, you could look at his other wins as well:

Such as beating the **** out of Andrade for 12 rounds or KOing a fairly competent Beyer in the first round.

Kessler has received too much hype in my opinion, this tournament will be asking him a lot of question. I suspect he has the answers but lately he has dropped behind Froch in the written test; Froch UDing and KOing two of the best North American SMWs (perhaps the two best?). Although, granted the Palle dispute is the reason for that.