Former world champion Winky Wright will return from an eight-month layoff when he enters the ring against Grady Brewer on Dec. 11 at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan.
A southpaw who will turn 38 on Nov. 26, Wright is coming off of consecutive losses by decision to Bernard Hopkins and Paul Williams in July 2007 and this past April, respectively.
Wright (51-5-1, 25 knockouts) owns victories over former world champs Shane Mosley and Felix Trinidad, and fought to a disputed draw with former undisputed middleweight (160 pounds) champion Jermain Taylor.
Confidence has never been an issue for WBC champion Carl Froch.
In a wide-ranging interview, the outspoken and talented Englishman, who is 26-0 with 20 knockouts, says why he thought Andre Dirrell was "scared" in their Oct. 17 fight, why he believes Dirrell will defeat Germany's Arthur Abraham and why he will defeat WBA champ Mikkel Kessler.
Read what Froch had to say during this Q&A after the jump.
Showtime's Sports general manager, Ken Hershman, said that he is "thrilled" concerning the success of last weekend's two super middleweight bouts of the Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament, even as he expressed concern and well-wishes toward Jermain Taylor, who was diagnosed with a concussion following his 12th-round knockout loss to Germany's Arthur Abraham.
After losing to Abraham (31-0, 25 KOs) in a clash of former middleweight (160 pounds) champions, Taylor (28-4-1, 17 KOs) was hospitalized for a few days in Germany following their 168-pound battle.
Showtime's Super Six World Boxing Classic super middleweight tournament begins on Saturday evening when former middleweight champs Arthur Abraham and Jermain Taylor step into the ring in what has the early making of a puncher-versus-boxer matchup.
Their 168-pound meeting, from the O2 World Arena in Kreuzberg, Germany, will be shown on a tape-delayed basis prior to the second featured bout, which will pit WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch of England and former Olympic bronze medalist Andre Dirrell from the Trent FM Arena in Froch's hometown of Nottingham.
The Froch-Dirrell 168-pound bout is part of Showtime's Super Six World Super Middleweight Boxing Classic, which also includes Saturday's matchup featuring Arthur Abraham (30-0, 24 knockouts) of Berlin against Jermain Taylor (28-3-1, 17 KOs) of Arkansas in a battle of former middleweight (160) world champions at the O2 World Arena before Abraham's hometown crowd in Kreuzberg.
FanHouse has yet again asked for the predicitions and opinions of 11 boxing gurus, this time concerning Abraham vs. Taylor.
On Saturday, Andre Dirrell, broke training camp in Big Bear Lake, Calif., where the former Olympic bronze medalist worked out at 7,500 feet above sea level for this coming Saturday's bid to win the WBC super middleweight crown from England's Carl Froch.
And it seems that from the moment Dirrell (18-0, 13 knockouts) landed in Froch's hometown of Nottingham, the Flint, Mich., native has been running his mouth as swiftly as he plans to move his hands and feet during their clash of 168-pounders.
"I've spent my whole life dreaming of this night when I fight for the world title," said the 27-year-old Dirrell. "Froch has been foaming at the mouth saying how hopeless my chances are against him. Frankly I find his rants tiresome."
Showtime and NFL Films have combined to produce the reality series, Fight Camp 360: Inside The Super Six World Boxing Classic.
The series is intended to take viewers inside of Showtime's Super Six super middleweight (168) tournament, giving them unprecedented access into the lives of the participants who are in an event featuring six of the top fighters in the weight class.
Problem is, out of Abraham's 30 fights, only two have been outside of his adopted Germany, and only one of those contests was in the United States.
But on Oct. 17, Abraham hopes to score a big victory toward expanding his name worldwide when he takes on Jermain Taylor in a clash of former middleweight (160 pounds) champions.
Nicknamed "The Cobra," England's Carl Froch certainly was spitting venom during a recent conference call involving upcoming rival, Andre Dirrell.
The WBC supermiddleweight champion was, all at once, confident, brash and unrepentant, respectively, about what he did in stopping Arkansas' Jermain Taylor with 12 seconds left in their April bout; the fact that he expects to similarly blast Dirrell into unconcious oblivion; and in defending what he has to say in regard to himself or just about any subject.
"To be honest, I always conduct myself in a professional manner. I'm a consumate professional from start to finish. Anything I say, I mean, and I stand by my convictions. If I am coming across as insulting or unfair or whatever, well I only say what I believe in," said Froch, 32.
Former world champion Winky Wright will return from an eight-month layoff when he enters the ring against Grady Brewer on Dec. 11 at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan.
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