Comments Thread For: Hearn: No Froch vs. Hopkins, No Catch-Weight Fight

[cuzzlo]

Another loss won't hurt Carl, shame to see he has no belief or desire to be a p4p champ. He spent his early years calling out for Calzaghe but seems to wince, shiver and shrivel up when others albeit it slightly smaller call him up. Another thing though is, you'd look to move up if you were dominating your division, fights against Ward, Kessler and Dirrell have shown no lead or parity oftimes. Good luck to Carl though, he's a throwback, fan friendly fighter and Crushed Bute, Taylor and a few others,

[P4P Opinion]

Read the article before commenting and you'll avoid making statements with no basis in fact - simple English language comprehension skills.

Eddie Hearn doesn't want Froch to fight Hopkins at 175, at no point in the article do we get a quote from Froch himself saying the same, so please don't label Froch a ducker. Froch has fought the absolute best at 168, one after the other, ducking no-one, bucking the trend in this sport of only taking dangerous fights inbetween routine defenses. As a fan of the sport you should appreciate the attitude of a guy like Froch, whether you are a fan of him as a fighter or not.

Everyone is talking like Froch has already beaten Kessler anyway, which is far from a certainty. If Froch were to be beaten again, this hypothetical fight with Hopkins would probably be off the table anyway.

[SAJ10]

I knew Froch and Hearn would avoid Hopkins. Froch said he'd come up to a catchweight to fight calzaghe - Hopkins has said he'd do it at a Catchweight and even come to UK.

Froch also said in the past he'd rematch Pascal at LH - seems if he wants the fight he can do catchweight or come up but against a guy he doesn't want to fight uses - I'm a Super Middle.

Fair enough if he doesn't wish to fight Cleverly, Cleverly still has a lot to prove but Hopkins is a legend and still has it, as he proved schooling Cloud, even though he's lost a step and his reactions aren't what they were -his ring IQ makes up for it.

Carl always discredits Joe's win a LH against Hopkins in Hopkins' own backyard - well lets see if he'll even fight him at a catchweight in his own country.

Froch's mantra - of I'll take on anyone is starting to look like - anyone that I really want to.

I seriously doubt it as he and most people know Hopkins has his number even at 48.

[SAJ10]

Froch is avoiding fighters, there's no doubt - the same way he hides behind a - nobody would like to see a Ward rematch because it wasn't entertaining, nothing to do with the fact then that a one handed Ward dominated him.

Tries to call himself a legend and better than Calzaghe but is a one weight champion that's never even been no:1 is his own division.

Says he fight guys at LHW or catchweight before but if its Hopkins he can't even do a catchweight - come on we're not ******.

If Froch thinks he has a good solid chance of winning the rematch - he'll take the fight, if he doesn't he make excuses. That's fine but can we all please stop saying that Froch will fight anyone, he doesn't duck anyone and doesn't care about hsi record etc he'll face everyone.

More and more we can see this is bs.

He joined the S6 thinking he and Kessler were the best two fighters in it and he'd beat Kessler - he was obligated to fight Ward - I'm guessing based on his recent actions that had he not have been tied to the s6 he would have found a reason for not fighting Ward.

[IronDanHamza]

Good, I'm glad.

I don't want to see Froch fight Hopkins.

It's a lose lose situation for him and I think it's a fight he will struggle in also.

[IronDanHamza]

In regards to the avoiding, Calzaghe certainly could have fought Froch. It was on the table and he chose to not take the fight. But who can really blame him for not taking the fight? Froch was unknown even in the UK at that point and Calzaghe had bigger fish to fight.

Froch tried everything to get the fight but he was never going to get it but you really can't blame Calzaghe for not taking it.

Hatton and Witter is a little different because there was quite the demand domestically for that fight and it would have been a big fight.

I'd have liked to have seen it but on the flipside, you can forgive Hatton considering who he fought instead.

But, I would have liked to have seen that Hatton-Witter fight.

[SAJ10]

Like you say Iron - Froch was a British champion when he was calling Calzaghe out - Joe had a Kessler unification option and then moved up to LHW to fight a legend.

He'd all but decided to call it a day by the time Froch won a World title.

Hopkins on the other hand is a legend not a British Champion so the circumstances are quite different

[KickAzz]

smart move by Hearns... don't f.uck with Hopkins

[Weebler I]

I knew Froch and Hearn would avoid Hopkins. Froch said he'd come up to a catchweight to fight calzaghe - Hopkins has said he'd do it at a Catchweight and even come to UK.

Carl always discredits Joe's win a LH against Hopkins in Hopkins' own backyard - well lets see if he'll even fight him at a catchweight in his own country.

Froch's mantra - of I'll take on anyone is starting to look like - anyone that I really want to.

I seriously doubt it as he and most people know Hopkins has his number even at 48.

You know Froch wanted to fight Hopkins in 2011?

A key part of creating that legacy would be to fight Hopkins, who, at 46, became the oldest world champion in history two weeks ago when he beat Canada’s Jean Pascal in Montreal.

“A stadium fight for Carl in Nottingham would be the obvious stage for a fight with Hopkins,” said Hearn. “But Carl is also highly regarded in America and Las Vegas could be another option.”

Canadian Lucian Bute, holder of the International Boxing Federation super-middleweight title and a slick southpaw, is another target.

“The funny thing about Carl is that he only wants the toughest fights,” explained Hearn. “I’ve said to him, when the Super Sixes is over, let’s get an easier fight in a football stadium in the UK and make millions of dollars. But he doesn’t want that. He just wants to fight the best out there.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...d-Hopkins.html

It's the weight that's the sticking issue, not the opponent.

Froch talks about his weight here:

Froch is avoiding fighters, there's no doubt - the same way he hides behind a - nobody would like to see a Ward rematch because it wasn't entertaining, nothing to do with the fact then that a one handed Ward dominated him.

He has said he will travel to the US to rematch Ward.

[IronDanHamza]

Froch is one of few fighters in the sport who walk around not far off their weight.

He doesn't put much weight on after the weigh in.

He'd probably be more comfortable going down than going up.