Froch on SSN

Great interview just now. Really hope the Groves rematch happens.

 

Only thing the ref stopped was, groves getting a big pasting.

wish the red had let the fight carry on and let Froch wipe the floor with him. Then we wouldn't have had all this nonesense about the ref stopping groves from winning.

groves wouldn't have lasted that round never mind 3 more

 

You just can't possibly say that. Your comment is just as bad as the one you're arguing against.

Groves was in a far more desperate position against Kenny Anderson and that was in the second round, but came back to win.

 

sorry andy mate, there's just no way you can know that. groves might have swung a punch in response and knocked him out.

 

Would have had to be a great punch. He was ducked down running for cover to the other side of the ring

 

Then yo me that's not a far worse position. It was in the second. He had just done eight rounds of incredibly good hard work.

 

Have you seen the Anderson fight? Groves was dead on his feet, he wasn't last night.

Froch had just taken 8 rounds of a severe beating. His punches weren't causing anywhere near as much damage as in the Bute fight, as an example.

 

Would be better to compare the fight against the blokes who's name I forget where froch took a beating for 11 rounds was way behind on points and won via stoppage

 

Jermaine Taylor?

Froch didn't take a beating for 11 rounds. He was down on the cards, but didn't take a beating. Even the knockdown in that fight was a flash one, Froch was never in trouble. Not like last night where his legs were completely gone in the first and he was saved by the bell.

 

You just can't say that though, that's my point.

Froch's trying to claim he gave Groves a beating for three rounds, which just isn't the case. He didn't even win the 8th round when you watch it again, so the tide was only turning slowly.

That is the most fatigued Froch has ever been, the punches he caught Groves with would have KO'd most people - had they being thrown by a fresh Carl Froch.

Froch might have gone on to stop him. Groves might have taken a knee once he stood up straight after spinning round and being grabbed by the ref, and at 25 those eight seconds could have cleared his head.

All hypothetical, which is why I'm disagreeing with anyone who tries to state something as fact. I actually think Groves, taking an 8 count, would have survived that round. He might then have lost every round until the end of the fight, which then creates the travesty that with that scenario he would have lost on the cards.

 

There's no doubt it was stopped prematurely. Groves was robbed of the chance to conjure up a second wind and realise the dream of becoming a world champion in his 20th fight.

That's not to say he would have actually gone on to do that, but he was robbed of the chance.

 

Come on, he's never been hit with that many power punches in his entire career. If you combine both Kessler fights and add the Ward fight, Groves landed more power punches in 8 rounds than in those fights.

Froch was visibly hurt on three occasions for the first time in his career. Without his reputation, he could even have had the ref call it off in the first round.

I've never seen Froch take four or five punches in a row without answering back. It was a severe beating, but it's a testament to him as a fighter that he was still there to put it on Groves in round nine.