This weekend Carl Froch is going to step into the ring for a rematch with George Groves at Wembley Stadium in a rematch of their first bout, a controversial affair that almost ended with the "Cobra" getting knocked out. Instead Froch rallied and scored a stoppage himself that looked to be a bit premature.
Now Groves is out for payback, and he isn't shy about predicting doom for the favored Froch. "He's like a man on death row and I can't imagine that would be very nice," Groves said.
"His destiny is to lose and I'd much rather leave him to digest all of that in peace. "Nothing needs to be said between us. It's dawning on him that his day of reckoning is approaching and he's in a fight he cannot win."
While Froch is a tenured star in the sport, Groves is a decade younger than him with a powerful punch that he felt in the first go-round. Groves has 19 wins, 15 of which came by way of knockout, and is boasting about crushing the Nottingham native with his hard hooks.
"On Saturday, it's going to hit him like a slap in the face. It might hit him during the ring walk or it might hit him in the form of a left hook," Groves said.
Froch is laughing off the tough talk from "Saint George" though, completely dismissing talk of a lucky break in the first matchup. "He's told everyone that the first fight was a robbery," Froch said.
"But he knows when he looked in the mirror the following morning his face was swollen, he had two black eyes, a swollen lip and lumps all over his head. The magnitude of the event could be dawning on him. That could be why he was so quiet and subdued at the press conference."
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