Carl Froch confirms new found boxing skills
Carl “The Cobra” Froch actually looked like a snake Saturday night.
The Nottingham man, who fought in Helsinki, Finland this weekend, dismantled opponent Arthur Abraham and demonstrated his transition from slugger to premier boxing technician.
Froch confirmed as much in a recent Fanhouse article: “that's what I had been working on for the last four months, movement and using my footwork and my boxing ability.”
For much of the fight Froch emphasized his jab and footwork to perpetually disrupt Abraham’s rhythm. As a result, “The King” never got into a pace in which he could dominate or even begin to feel comfortable.
Froch acknowledged that trainer Rob McCracken deserves a lot of credit for directing the fighter not to engage Abraham one-dimensionally or exchange blows with him in the middle of the ring. Instead, Froch used superior out-of-range skills to refuse Abraham
any openings, and keep him aloof at a distance.
“Every time that I went in to try to finish him, I could hear Rob telling me, 'back off, back off,' you know, shouting at me from the corner. You know, I listened to him. Otherwise, it probably would have been a little bit more exciting if I wouldn't have
had Rob directing me,” Froch confirmed.
“But he knows what I should do. You know, he's the master and I'm the student, and I listened to him, and it all worked out.”
Excitement or not, a win is a win.
Froch now finds himself the No.2 seed in Showtime’s Super Six boxing tournament. In defeating Abraham he regains the WBC super middleweight champion, a title he lost from Mikkel Kessler in a previous April contest. He is also positioned to fight third-seeded
Glen Johnson in March 2011.
Johnson, a late addition to the super middleweight tournament, is coming off a formidable and disciplined win over Allan Green.
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