The venue and the fight date are not finalized, but super middleweight Carl Froch is planning to test the chin of Arthur Abraham when they face off in the third stage of Showtime's Super Six tournament, boxingscene.com reported.
Froch isn't confident that Abraham is able to take the monster shots of a true super middleweight. Abraham moved up to the weight last fall after spending most of his career at 160-pounds.
In the first stage of the tournament he knocked out Jermain Taylor. The second stage saw Abraham get disqualified for hitting Andre Dirrell while he was down. Neither Taylor or Dirrell are big punchers at the weight. Froch is known for his size and power and plans to use those advantages in the fight.
"Abraham is a class act with a decent dig on him and I won't be taking him lightly at all. But the truth is, Abraham will sit behind a tight guard for the lion's share of the rounds, exploding into life here and there occasionally. If he opens up then sure it could end up being a shoot-out, but whilst he can hit himself....what big punchers has he faced to date at the weight?" questioned Froch during an interview with livefight.com.
Froch would later go after Abraham's promoter Kalle Saulerland of Sauerland Event. He is upset over Kalle's recent comments regarding Abraham-Froch being the type of fight where the judges are not a factor, so the location of where the fight takes place should not be a huge issue. Froch and Abraham have yet to finalize their date because the two camps are fighting over where the fight should take place. Froch is made over what he claims was handshake deal with Kalle, to stage the fight with Abraham in the UK.