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Saturday 17 December 2011

Super 6 Final should be a classic

Which fighter will hold the belts at the end?

No surprise to see Andre Ward as a big favourite with the bookies, considering he's not lost in years and is a very skilled fighter.

Styles make fights though and I think this is going to be a completely different challenge for Ward.

At the start of this Super 6 tournament he looked very good in beating what was an old looking Kessler. The form of that has been boosted by Kessler winning a world title since and also beating Froch (contentious decision), but for me something was wrong with the Dane that night.

This guy is a very slick and exceptionally fast fighter, but his last three fights has seen him fight no more than decent operators, who became punch bags. Allan Green and Sakio Bika werent even in the competition to start off with, and those are a good couple of levels below Froch, while Arthur Abraham in his last fight, was a shot fighter at this level after Froch demolished him in front of his own crowd on his own show.

What makes Froch such a lively underdog in this fight is that he's such a great away fighters, only one of his last five fights have been in the UK. The judges scored his last fight with Glen Johnson a MD, but many press people had it clear for Froch and he was always the stronger guy in the ring. This guy is a warrior, we know what he's going to bring, loads of pressure, big punches, but he's also as technically sound as Ward.

I'll have to be honest, I would find it hard to go against Froch here because I'm such a massive fan of him as a person and fighter, but having evaluated the fight, I think he stands a great chance. He's a better fighter than he was going into the Kessler fight, there's not so much pressure on him, and looking at how he boxed v Abraham, he is a supremely confident fighter at the moment. 

Of Ward's 24 wins as a pro, he's won 13 of them early, but look at it early and he's won just two by KO, showing he's not really a big puncher, and the guys he has stopped have been at a very low level. When you think that Froch has stopped the likes of Jermain Taylor and Brian Magee, you can see what kind of level he's at. I think he brings the more natural power and if I was in the Ward camp I'd be worried about that as fast hands can only do so much.

I think this could very well be decided in the last three or four rounds, both guys tend to come on strong, and in their last fights, both guys has impressive finishes. Froch's power stays with him to the end however and that could be absolute key in this contest. It wont be easy for the Nottingham man and going over to the US is not easy, but he's done it before and there's no reason why he cant do it again.

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