Tweet
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Every now and then, you just know.
Based on the research I’d done and live fights I’d seen heading into last week, I honestly couldn’t imagine a circumstance where a long-time super middleweight elite like Carl Froch wouldn’t have what it took to withstand whatever a more-decorated, less-accomplished Lucian Bute had to offer.
I thought Froch was fast enough, conditioned enough and – most importantly – could take a good enough shot to grind down an opponent who’d struggled with the likes of Librado Andrade and hadn’t been forced to answer a lot of other hard questions during a nine-defense run over four years.
But that said, even I didn’t expect such a dominant effort.
And, over 13-plus minutes of what Sky Sports ringside man Adam Smith correctly called a “comprehensive beating,” even I couldn’t have foreseen what a force Froch was about to become.
Now a month shy of age 35, the always-confident Englishman suddenly has a fistful of fights that’d provide a fair bit of intrigue – not to mention a nice chunk of change – while keeping him at the top of the 168-pound conversation for at least another year or two. [Click Here To Read More]
Based on the research I’d done and live fights I’d seen heading into last week, I honestly couldn’t imagine a circumstance where a long-time super middleweight elite like Carl Froch wouldn’t have what it took to withstand whatever a more-decorated, less-accomplished Lucian Bute had to offer.
I thought Froch was fast enough, conditioned enough and – most importantly – could take a good enough shot to grind down an opponent who’d struggled with the likes of Librado Andrade and hadn’t been forced to answer a lot of other hard questions during a nine-defense run over four years.
But that said, even I didn’t expect such a dominant effort.
And, over 13-plus minutes of what Sky Sports ringside man Adam Smith correctly called a “comprehensive beating,” even I couldn’t have foreseen what a force Froch was about to become.
Now a month shy of age 35, the always-confident Englishman suddenly has a fistful of fights that’d provide a fair bit of intrigue – not to mention a nice chunk of change – while keeping him at the top of the 168-pound conversation for at least another year or two. [Click Here To Read More]
Comment