Comments Thread For: Froch Balks at Sweden, Will Fight Abraham in America

[Dick Buffman]

First off, I agree with Froch. Why anyone would wanna go to Sweden for any reason is beyond me, much less to box.

Secondly, the fact that Ward has all 3 fights in Oakland is the biggest disgrace in this whole tournament.

If Froch had all 3 fights in Nottingham, BS would be on fire condemning Froch, but since its Ward nobody seems to mind.

[THE REED]

First off, I agree with Froch. Why anyone would wanna go to Sweden for any reason is beyond me, much less to box.

Secondly, the fact that Ward has all 3 fights in Oakland is the biggest disgrace in this whole tournament.

If Froch had all 3 fights in Nottingham, BS would be on fire condemning Froch, but since its Ward nobody seems to mind.

I didn't know all 3 of his fights were in his hometown?

How did that even happen?

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

Fight somewhere nuetral.

[Chunk..]

First off, I agree with Froch. Why anyone would wanna go to Sweden for any reason is beyond me, much less to box.

Secondly, the fact that Ward has all 3 fights in Oakland is the biggest disgrace in this whole tournament.

If Froch had all 3 fights in Nottingham, BS would be on fire condemning Froch, but since its Ward nobody seems to mind.

Andre Ward is a black American, hence why he gets a pass on here.

[the niggest]

First off, I agree with Froch. Why anyone would wanna go to Sweden for any reason is beyond me, much less to box.

Secondly, the fact that Ward has all 3 fights in Oakland is the biggest disgrace in this whole tournament.

If Froch had all 3 fights in Nottingham, BS would be on fire condemning Froch, but since its Ward nobody seems to mind.

What's wrong with Sweden?

[Dick Buffman]

What's wrong with Sweden?

Its ****ing lame... and the food sucks.

[Dick Buffman]

I didn't know all 3 of his fights were in his hometown?

How did that even happen?

I'll be damned if I know, but it happened. Pretty big oversight if you aks me.

If you could even call it an oversight since its so damn obvious what an advantage it is.

[ShoulderRoll]

Andre Ward is a black American, hence why he gets a pass on here.

What does him being black have anything to do with it?

Andre Ward's promoter insisted on this BEFORE the tournament even started. All the other promoters presumably agreed in order to get other concessions for themselves.

You can't ***** and complain about it now.

There's a sizeable Armenian population in California so maybe they can have Froch vs. Abraham there.

[southpaw_07]

Why not Italy, they love boxing over there and not too far away for British and German fans

[Clegg]

It is worked out from the start.....Ward was supoose to fight 3 fights in the States(since 2 of his 3 were with americans) and Froch-Abraham was supopose to be somewhere in Europe.Froch is the one who is not respecting his contract.

There is nothing to support that claim, nice try though.

It was announced by Froch's promoter that Sauerland had agreed for Froch-AA to happen in the UK. Sauerland did not dispute this at all until after Froch-Kessler, at which point Sauerland claimed that they'd only agreed to have the fight in Europe.

If that really was the agreement, it's unlikely that Sauerland would have waited 3 months to say so. Also, why would Hennessey go out of their way to make sure that Sauerland agreed to have the fight in Europe? Clearly, Froch wants to fight in America, not in mainland Europe, so it would make zero sense for Froch to get Sauerland to agree that the fight has to take place in Europe, wouldn't it?

But regardless, here are the facts: Froch is willing to fight in the US, which the only genuinely neutral venue for this particular fight to take place. AA's side are refusing to fight in the US

Froch is willing to take on a fighter who most people expect to KO him. He travelled abroad in his last fight to face someone who was expected to beat him, as he also did in 2009. Despite all of this, he's the one getting all of the criticism because he doesn't want to go and fight a German fighter in Germany. Something tells me that if this was any other super six boxer he wouldn't be getting half as much criticism.