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But McCracken’s assertion that Froch’s fights “have been harder than we’d have liked of late” the former middleweight world title challenger is a master of understatement is actually a little disingenuous. For at times, both McCracken and Froch seem to revel in the Herculean nature of their labours.

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“I said to Carl, ‘I really think we should look at a warm up fight’,” says Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn. “And he said, ‘what’s a warm up fight?’ I’ve high quality replica bags got no right to protect him, it’s his call. And when you get the chance to fight for good quality replica bags a world title in your backyard, you have got to take it.”

Hearn is head of boxing at Matchroom Sport, the company founded by his father Barry. Having fallen out of love with the fight game, Hearn Sr now concentrates his efforts on Leyton Orient, snooker and darts.

Dapper, personable and with a gift for the eye catching quote, Hearn Jr is a chip off the old man’s block. He describes the making of Froch Bute thus: “It was like when there’s a girl who’s really interested in you and you keep saying ‘no’, they just keep coming back. They’re more interested the more rejection they get.” But what you might call Eddie’s ‘Hearnisms’ cannot disguise a serious operator who shares his dad’s seemingly boundless innovatory spirit.

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While Matchroom’s approach to matchmaking might be a little bit gung ho for rival promoter Frank Warren’s taste Northern Irish prospect Paul McCloskey losing to veteran American DeMarcus cheap designer bags replica Corley earlier this month was not supposed to happen Hearn would argue that protecting a fighter’s ‘0’ is an luxury replica bags attitude that high replica bags has to go if boxing is to thrive on the ultra competitive modern sports landscape.

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Bute, 32, is a heavy handed southpaw with a wide variety of punches, his left uppercut and right hook signature shots. While not as slick as Andre Ward, who beat Froch in the final of the Super Six tournament last December, the suspicion is the Englishman struggles against fighters who don’t sit in front of him.

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“A loss isn’t the end of the world, but it would be a disaster,” says Hearn. “If Carl does lose, there are bundles of fights out there. But we want the big super middleweight fights, the unifying fight we want Andre Ward.

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Seconldy Bute only ever fought at home, we saw what can happen if you hit him, but we have also seen how quick and powerful he can be. Is it good that he is a little of an unknown or does that make it harder for Froch?

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