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There’s nothing like a top domestic ****-up to get the juices flowing and that’s certainly what sports fans can look forward to when super-middleweights Carl Froch and George Groves renew their hostility at Wembley Stadium tonight.
Both are good operators with big personalities and bigger egos. The genuine friction between the former spar mates – stoked further by referee Howard Foster’s controversial ninth round intervention which allowed Froch to retain his IBF and WBA belts in Manchester last November – has led to a huge turn out at the national stadium.
While the stoppage was possibly a tad premature, it certainly wasn’t the worst I’ve witnessed.
Having withstood an early maelstrom that included getting dump heavily on his rump in the opening session, ‘The Cobra’ was building up a real head of steam and Groves appeared to be wilting.
Froch, I sense, would probably have completed an emphatic stoppage shortly after, had the fight advanced to its natural conclusion. Foster’s controversial call possibly denied the champion from receiving the ultimate glory his heroic comeback merited, but others feel Groves may have recovered. Who knows?
Tonight the nation will be gripped and everybody it seems harbours an opinion on both the principals and the likely outcome.
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Both are good operators with big personalities and bigger egos. The genuine friction between the former spar mates – stoked further by referee Howard Foster’s controversial ninth round intervention which allowed Froch to retain his IBF and WBA belts in Manchester last November – has led to a huge turn out at the national stadium.
While the stoppage was possibly a tad premature, it certainly wasn’t the worst I’ve witnessed.
Having withstood an early maelstrom that included getting dump heavily on his rump in the opening session, ‘The Cobra’ was building up a real head of steam and Groves appeared to be wilting.
Froch, I sense, would probably have completed an emphatic stoppage shortly after, had the fight advanced to its natural conclusion. Foster’s controversial call possibly denied the champion from receiving the ultimate glory his heroic comeback merited, but others feel Groves may have recovered. Who knows?
Tonight the nation will be gripped and everybody it seems harbours an opinion on both the principals and the likely outcome.
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