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Written by: Cain Bradley When he finally steps into the ring on the 4th of june Carl Froch might realise just how close is to super-stardom. Winning the super six tournament would send him into the realms of super-stardom that only Calzaghe and Hatton had reached in the last ten years. The path for Froch has been a long winded one seeing him go from Dagenham to Hollywood to Connecticut to Herning to Helsinki and now he finally heads for New Jersey. He will be taking on Glen Johnson, the 42 year old Jamaican, for a place in the final of the super six tournament against either Andre Ward or Arthur Abraham. With arguably the easier semi final Froch must feel he is one stop closer to being Super Six champion. The super six was meant to revolutionise boxing. The idea was a great one in principal but so was communism. From the 6 original fighters, 3 are left standing. Injuries to Kessler + Dirrell really devalued what was looking like a promising last round. A flaw was also the structure of the tournament. Unlike the Bantamweight: Winner takes all tournament in which the finalists would both have [...]

 

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