It’s not been a great week for British 168lb boss Carl Froch (33-2, 24 ko). After being widely mocked online for his fawning over Floyd Mayweather in that cringe inducing star-struck Sky interview – the Cobra – (whom everybody now knows knocked out George Groves in front of 80k at Wembley) – has now been stripped of the WBA (reg) title that he won back in 2013 in his rematch with Mikkel Kessler.
It has been a year since he last boxed and the WBA have ordered Felix Sturm and interim WBA champ Fedor Chudinov to instead fight for his title this weekend in Germany.
I wish I could say every cloud has a silver lining but I can’t. The WBA have installed Froch as the mandatory challenger to the winner of the returning Andre Ward and Paul Smith fight on June 20th.
And unless Britain’s Smith can pull off a Lloyd Honeyghan/Don Curry style upset then there is only one winner in that fight.
Any sane person can see a rematch with WBA (sup) champion Ward is not something the Nottingham fighter needs to jump at – especially after being soundly beaten the first time.
After mooted summer fights with the likes of Chavez Jr in Vegas failing to materialise and the retrospective documentary programme on his career, it would seem all the signs are pointing towards retirement for the 37 year old.
He turns 38 in July and with a year out already any potential rematch with Ward (should he do so) would be several more months away.
We could well have seen the last of Carl Froch.
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