November 16, 2010 - 12:14 AMT
Abraham: I have to be more aggressive against Froch

Bitter rivals and European superstars Arthur Abraham and Carl Froch continued to throw verbal jabs at one another during an international media conference call less than two weeks before their Super Six World Boxing Classic clash for the vacant WBC Super Middleweight title on Nov. 27, on SHOWTIME on same-day-delay from Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland, fightnews.com reported.

“I never ever want to test my chin with anybody” Froch said. “The best chin is the one that doesn’t get hit. I’ve fought some very strong super middleweights and light heavyweights. I’m not concerned when people say that Arthur’s the biggest puncher I’ve faced. I think his power is overrated, especially at super middleweight.”

Abraham (31-1, 25 KOs) vs. Froch (26-1, 20 KOs) has the potential to be a classic toe-to-toe brawl with both fighters hungry and coming off their first professional losses. Froch lost his world title to Mikkel Kessler, who withdrew from the World Boxing Classic Tournament with an eye injury, and has said that he feels like he will have to knock out Abraham to get his belt back.

“Of course we have tried to learn from the defeat (against Andre Dirrell). We have tried to change what we did in practice. The mistake I made against Dirrell was that I gave away the first couple of rounds. That won’t happen again and it’s something we’re looking to change in the next fight. One thing I learned from my fight against Dirrell is that I have to be more aggressive from the early rounds because those are the rounds I lost,” Abraham said.

Asked about his advantages over Froch, he said, “The advantages are inside my head and I don’t want to speak to that right now. I’ll just show you.”