Comments Thread For: Carl Froch Discusses His Side of The "Amir Khan Feud"

[la pantera]

I thought Khan's last win was pretty entertaining.

Froch's resume is better? Isn't he also over a decade older?

Khan is a far superior boxer to Froch and after a few more years under Freddie's tutelage he'll be light years ahead. People will forget who Froch is after he loses the next two bouts in the tourney.

Well at least Froch doesn't duck the best challenges out there...according to a writer here Amir Khan may vacate his title if they push for a fight against Marcos Maidana...hmm..I wonder why Khan/Warren will stay away from a real challenge.

[Dave Rado]

Also, a rather interesting article popped up this morning:

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=336818

This is why I am a bigger Froch fan than Khan fan. There wouldn't even be this rumour with Froch holding a belt, he's try to savagely beat whoever came to get it.

Froch's attitude to fighting the best is fantastic.

His attitude in terms of showing proper respect for his countrymen's achievements is terrible.

As a fighter, Froch is just outside world class, IMO, with enough qualities to just beat some world class fighters who have major flaws (because styles make fights), but who will lose to most of the top 10 fighters he faces. Whereas Khan has the potential to be a truly world class fighter.

I don't agree with you about training. Robert McCracken is actually a good trainer, but Froch doesn't really listen to him. He was giving him great corner advice in the Taylor fight, but Froch just ignored him. Whereas Khan follows Roach's game plans to the letter, and before Roach, the training he had had was really awful.

As for the pressure Roach and Warren seem to be putting on him to duck Maidana, I think that's appalling, but I blame them much more than Khan. I also blame the British sports journalists who mostly know very little about boxing and are little more than cheerleaders, for not calling him on it.

Khan said recently in an interview that he wants to fight Maidana and that it would be a great fight for him, and I think he was sincere. He needs to stand up to Roach and Warren and tell them to just make the fight happen, but it's difficult for a 23 year old to do that. I'm sure that he has the guts to fight anyone in the ring, but I'm not sure if he has the assertiveness to stand up to Roach and Warren.

Froch is much older and that sort of assertiveness often comes with age.

The other thing is that Roach/Warren do have some decent arguments, although overall I think they're clearly in the wrong. It is true that it's pretty much unprecedented for a fighter to have to fight two mandatories in a row. Vitali Klitschko recently successfully challenged a similar attempt to force him to fight two mandatories in a row, and got that overturned, but no one accused Vitali of ducking. And Maidana didn't help his cause by fighting someone with a 22-5-1 record, in his last fight, even though top 10 fighters like Campbell were begging him to fight them instead. At a time when Roach was saying publicly that he wanted Maidana to raise his profile with another big fight before fighting Khan, so that Khan Maidana could be a mega-fight instead of a high-risk-low-reward one, and when HBO were offering him a good money fight against the likes of Campbell, it was extremely ****** of Maidana to turn that down and fight a real bum, a far worse fighter than Salita, and in Argentina rather than on HBO. How does that help his cause? If you're going to criticise Khan, you should criticise Maidana even more strongly.