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Before their first bout in November you wouldn’t have been alone in picking IBF and WBA World Super Middleweight champion Carl Froch to beat George Groves and comprehensively so. The gulf in class was evident on paper and only those closest to the challenger really knew what he was going to do on the night.
For eight rounds Groves met Froch in the centre in the ring, had the better of the exchanges, landed the cleaner shots and had already put his man down in the first round. The boxing world already knows what happened in the ninth. Injustice, robbery, controversy were just a few of the kinder words floating around the Phones 4U Arena in Manchester after referee, Howard Foster, ended the contest in the ninth round deciding that Groves was in no position to continue.
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For eight rounds Groves met Froch in the centre in the ring, had the better of the exchanges, landed the cleaner shots and had already put his man down in the first round. The boxing world already knows what happened in the ninth. Injustice, robbery, controversy were just a few of the kinder words floating around the Phones 4U Arena in Manchester after referee, Howard Foster, ended the contest in the ninth round deciding that Groves was in no position to continue.
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