11 min Froch interview
Re: 11 min Froch interview
Decent interview carl seems ready and calm . Ive seen a couple of bits on youtube and the yanks know very little about froch , cant even pronounce his name. One of the shows i watched said he is from nottingham , london. They all think it will be quite easy for taylor . I have it very close with a possible home advantage going for taylor. Even though they say you must rip the title away from the challenger
-
nobby_nobbins
- Heavyweight
- Posts: 654
- Joined: 22 Apr 2008, 16:07
Re: 11 min Froch interview
Very good interview. I don't understand why people think Froch is disrespectful. He will say certain things tongue-in-cheek to hype fights, but he is very respectful of Taylor in that interview, and the fact that he has befriended his rival Pascal speaks volumes.
Re: 11 min Froch interview
wow didn't hear calzahe mentioned once 
cmon cobra !!!!!!
cmon cobra !!!!!!
Re: 11 min Froch interview
My thoughts exactly, must have been drugged or something.Fatsam wrote:wow didn't hear calzahe mentioned once
cmon cobra !!!!!!
-
prodigious1
- Heavyweight
- Posts: 31
- Joined: 16 Jan 2009, 22:32
Re: 11 min Froch interview
At the World Amateur Boxing Championships of 2001, David Haye and Carl Froch won England’s first ever medals, both silver. They both turned pro shortly afterwards and have gone on to world championship professional careers using a hands-down, strong-punching style. But the impression they’re making on the British public is markedly different.
Haye was operating in a relatively unknown division before moving to heavyweight, globally notoriously understaffed with quality performers and domestically dominated by the mediocre merry-go-round of Williams, Harrison, Skelton and Sprott with a few others thrown in for good measure. It’s not that exciting. On top of which, Haye has based himself in Cyprus for a while now, hardly the Ricky Hatton way of maximising your home fan base.
But Haye’s talent for self-promotion sees his upcoming fight with Wladimir Klitschko as being the most talked-about in the country while Froch’s defence of his WBC super middleweight belt against Jermain Taylor isn’t even being carried on any British television channel. Why? Well, Haye’s looks certainly help – he wears the playboy image well while Froch, athlete though he is, is no oil painting, sporting a nose which is, for a man who’s been getting into boxing rings for two decades, frankly astounding. But if the British boxing public were so aesthetically demanding it’s hard to understand how Hatton can draw 30,000 Mancunians to Las Vegas.
Style-wise, it’s hard to think of a dull Froch bout. He’s won all of 24, the majority by knockout and even when the judges are called into use it’s no indication of a lull in the action – in decisioning Jean Pascal last time out the two produced a late candidate for 2008’s fight of the year. Amazingly, Setanta, Sky and ITV all decided not to bid for the fight. Instead it will be streamed over the web on a dedicated site: some consolation for Froch’s British fans but hardly the way to maximise the fan base of a man who, although still fresh, is now on the old side of 30.
This is the nub of the Froch enigma. He’s certainly no shrinking violet. He’s been brashly confident in his own abilities since his amateur days and he’s happy to let anybody know it.
the rest:
http://theboxingbulletin.blogspot.com/2 ... or-tv.html
Haye was operating in a relatively unknown division before moving to heavyweight, globally notoriously understaffed with quality performers and domestically dominated by the mediocre merry-go-round of Williams, Harrison, Skelton and Sprott with a few others thrown in for good measure. It’s not that exciting. On top of which, Haye has based himself in Cyprus for a while now, hardly the Ricky Hatton way of maximising your home fan base.
But Haye’s talent for self-promotion sees his upcoming fight with Wladimir Klitschko as being the most talked-about in the country while Froch’s defence of his WBC super middleweight belt against Jermain Taylor isn’t even being carried on any British television channel. Why? Well, Haye’s looks certainly help – he wears the playboy image well while Froch, athlete though he is, is no oil painting, sporting a nose which is, for a man who’s been getting into boxing rings for two decades, frankly astounding. But if the British boxing public were so aesthetically demanding it’s hard to understand how Hatton can draw 30,000 Mancunians to Las Vegas.
Style-wise, it’s hard to think of a dull Froch bout. He’s won all of 24, the majority by knockout and even when the judges are called into use it’s no indication of a lull in the action – in decisioning Jean Pascal last time out the two produced a late candidate for 2008’s fight of the year. Amazingly, Setanta, Sky and ITV all decided not to bid for the fight. Instead it will be streamed over the web on a dedicated site: some consolation for Froch’s British fans but hardly the way to maximise the fan base of a man who, although still fresh, is now on the old side of 30.
This is the nub of the Froch enigma. He’s certainly no shrinking violet. He’s been brashly confident in his own abilities since his amateur days and he’s happy to let anybody know it.
the rest:
http://theboxingbulletin.blogspot.com/2 ... or-tv.html
Last edited by prodigious1 on 21 Apr 2009, 20:31, edited 2 times in total.
Re: 11 min Froch interview
Good post prodigious 