Comments Thread For: Froch Dropped Hard, Gets Questionable TKO of Groves

[MDPopescu]

Good fight, bad stoppage.

To be honest, i think Froch would of stopped Groves in that round if the fight continued. But it should of continued..no way should it off been stopped at that point.

Tough on Groves, he fought a great fight. I think he totally surprised Froch by taking the center of the ring and the knock down mentally knocked Froch for six...Groves was able to back him up.

Froch showed a great chin again at times..did he just get old overnight though? It happens. Not so sure he will be overly-keen on an immediate rematch.

As for Groves, he's a good fighter. I thought he would lose tonight...but i still thought he would go on to big things after the fight as he's a quality fighter. After tonight, my opinon is he's even better than i thought.
He had a tough break tonight for sure.

I don't think either... But, after this fight, it depends on how badly the media and the general public would turn against him...

[Skip Bayless]

***in piece of **** ref and those ***** judges that had it close, groves was ***in him up. his speed, movement, jab, power was wasting him but the ***er went away from his gameplan. he got too ****y and started exchanging too much, feel like slapping him he had it in the bag

[joe strong]

no rematch needed. froch was losing then he stepped it up & hurt groves gadly. 6 unanswered punches against the ropes with his hands down then the ref held him up frpm stumbling over. at the same time froch was stalking him going in for the kill. the ref got in the way. in my eyes it's not even suspect. the 2 judges scorecards were suspect but froch didn't let that happen.when people see the replay a few times some may change their tune...

[golden247]

Good fight, bad stoppage.

To be honest, i think Froch would of stopped Groves in that round if the fight continued. But it should of continued..no way should it off been stopped at that point.

Tough on Groves, he fought a great fight. I think he totally surprised Froch by taking the center of the ring and the knock down mentally knocked Froch for six...Groves was able to back him up.

Froch showed a great chin again at times..did he just get old overnight though? It happens. Not so sure he will be overly-keen on an immediate rematch.

As for Groves, he's a good fighter. I thought he would lose tonight...but i still thought he would go on to big things after the fight as he's a quality fighter. After tonight, my opinon is he's even better than i thought.
He had a tough break tonight for sure.

I agree with most of what you said, however as Haye said how do we know Groves wouldn't have had as good a powers of recovery as Froch, know we won't know, we were robbed of this.

Absolute DISGRACE by another BRITISH REF. Remeber the CHISORA against SCOTT MALIK among many others!!

[JJRod]

If there is a rematch I think Froch will be smarter and fight a better fight.
He didn't look like his typical self in there. His jab was weak, and it wasn't until the 6th round that I felt his punches were doing damage.

I believe that early KD hurt Froch bad and he was never fully recovered from it. You could tell in the post fight interview he still wasn't fully recovered.
Props to him though a lesser man would probably have not gotten up, and continue to take the massive punishment he took today.

[MDPopescu]

***in piece of **** ref and those ***** judges that had it close, groves was ***in him up. his speed, movement, jab, power was wasting him but the ***er went away from his gameplan. he got too ****y and started exchanging too much, feel like slapping him he had it in the bag

Groves gradually lost his jab -- and that was costly.

[ShoulderRoll]

no rematch needed.

Are you serious?

Groves hurt Froch far worse throughout the fight than Froch hurt him in my opinion. The difference is Froch was given a chance to come back from it.

A rematch is absolutely the right thing to do.

[golden247]

no rematch needed. froch was losing then he stepped it up & hurt groves gadly. 6 unanswered punches against the ropes with his hands down then the ref held him up frpm stumbling over. at the same time froch was stalking him going in for the kill. the ref got in the way. in my eyes it's not even suspect. the 2 judges scorecards were suspect but froch didn't let that happen.when people see the replay a few times some may change their tune...

Seen it a few times and COMPLETELY DISAGREE! He didn't even put him down!! Froch was hurt more in the first and subsequent rounds!! Carl's reputation allowed him the benefit of the doubt however as Groves' stated he is regarded as chinny for whatever reason and was stopped!!

Reminds me of the Lewis - Klitschko fight! But Groves was not as badly damaged with cuts and so forth.

ROBBERY!!

[sugarsmosley]

Are you serious?

Groves hurt Froch far worse throughout the fight than Froch hurt him in my opinion. The difference is Froch was given a chance to come back from it.

A rematch is absolutely the right thing to do.

COMPLETELY AGREE.... froch-groves 2 needs to happen!

[Pinoy4ever]

Robbery fire that ref