Ward vs Froch: Fight Camp 360 Episode 11 (Video)

by Scott Christ on Dec 9, 2011 4:55 PM EST in Boxing Video - Showtime

Here's the full 11th episode of Fight Camp 360, covering the December 17 Super Six World Boxing Classic final, between Andre Ward and Carl Froch:

If you missed episode 10, click here.

I'm hoping Showtime will keep FC360 around without the tournaments they've run (or a Pacquiao fight), but that's a budget issue as much as anything, I suspect. I'd love to see a two-part version for the February 11 rematch between Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto, for instance -- that's a great story, and really, that fight is just as much a "make or break" scenario this time as it was last April.

Maybe even a half hour devoted to Paul Williams, particularly if Erislandy Lara is on the same card on January 21. Williams is actually a really interesting guy on the occasions he speaks for himself, and Lara's story is a good one, too.

I'm just hoping it doesn't go away without something "major" or unique to promote -- it's a good series that lets the fighters speak for themselves, and has shown guys at their best and worst.

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anything that involves Paul speaking is high comedy. That guy has quite the interesting accent or whatever the hell he has.

by rooch on Dec 9, 2011 5:02 PM EST reply actions

Am I making too much of this or did anyone else think there was some kind of back handed racist connotation coming from Froch’s mum when she said that it will all come down to genetics? Something about the way she said it. I don’t know..

by Manuwar on Dec 9, 2011 6:03 PM EST reply actions

Everyone’s reaction was kind of hold-your-breath when she started in on it too as if, off camera perhaps, she’s taken that statement a bit further before.

by Manuwar on Dec 9, 2011 6:05 PM EST up reply actions

She was just talking about genes, she wasn’t sprouting mein kompf …

by properdave on Dec 9, 2011 8:01 PM EST up reply actions

Thats true, but it does seem a bit off when taken with the fact that Carl was wearing a 'One True Saxon' jacket later in the episode.

by I'm going slightly mad on Dec 10, 2011 6:29 PM EST up reply actions

Seriously, I think that’s a bit ridiculous. It was an innocent comment made to the father of her son. Parents comment all the time about what their genes have culminated in…

"Occasionally, there is a boxing match that, in its demonstration of skill, courage, intelligence, hope, seems to redeem the sport - almost. Perhaps boxing has always been a sport in crisis, a sport of crisis."

by Oli Goldstein on Dec 9, 2011 8:34 PM EST up reply actions