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Arthur Abraham has vowed to send Carl Froch into retirement when the pair battle for the WBC super-middleweight belt in Helsinki on Saturday.
The fight is the latest round of the Super Six series and Nottingham's Froch will try to regain the belt he lost to Mikkel Kessler in April 2010.
Froch, 33, has hinted he may quit if he suffers a second successive loss and Abraham has vowed to send him packing.
"After the fight, Froch can plan his retirement," Abraham told BBC Sport.
Like Froch, Abraham comes into the fight off the back of his only defeat having lost to Andre Dirrell in controversial circumstances in March.
Both fighters are desperate to avenge those defeats and although the pair are guaranteed a place in the semi-finals of the super-middleweight tournament, for Froch, a loss would leave him considering his future in the sport.
"The next fight is all or nothing for me," Froch said last month.
"If it doesn't go my way I will seriously consider retirement because I am only interested in the big title fights. I won't hang around at domestic level."
Abraham is still smarting from his defeat to Dirrell when he was disqualified in the 11th round after striking his opponent on the floor as he slipped to one knee. Up until the point the Armenian-born, German-based 30-year-old had been behind on all three judges scorecards.
It was a frustrating way to lose a previously unblemished 31-fight career record and Abraham has waited over seven months to avenge that defeat from his memory.
And his promoter Kalle Sauerland admits, Abraham has been left frustrated by two postponements with the fight originally scheduled for August before being changed to October only to be moved again to 27 November because of arguments about venues and a back injury to Froch.
"Arthur is used to fighting three of four times a year, he has only fought once in 2010, was ready in August and is seriously annoyed," said Sauerland.
"I don't like waiting seven months for one month, it is not good for me," added Abraham.
The pair get a chance to fight for the WBC title due to Kessler withdrawing from the tournament with an eye injury and relinquishing his belt as a result.
"This fight has the potential to be one of the best of the decade based on the fact that me and Arthur are both coming to win, we're both big punchers and we're both very, very tough men," stated Froch.
Unlike Froch, Abraham is a man of few words, to coin an old boxing adage, he does his talking with his fists.
But like Froch he is a true warrior of the sport, with his victory over Edison Miranda in September 2006 announcing his arrival on the world stage.
Abraham won a points decision against the previously unbeaten Miranda despite having his jaw broken in two places. Miranda was deducted five points by landing repeated low blows as well as intentionally headbutting Abraham in the fifth round.
Carl Froch
Froch suffered his only defeat in April
The fight was something that even four years later, Abraham remembers well.
"It was the hardest fight of my life, of my career and I can still visualise everything," Abraham told BBC Sport.
"It was incredibly tough to keep on boxing during the fight but I did fight on and that is how I was brought up. You have to fight in life. That is what we work for in practice. To keep fighting, even when you hurt.
"My coach told me when you are in the ring, it's life or death, always fight until the end and never go on your knees."
Abraham first came to Germany in 1995 as a 15-year-old and stayed for four years. He returned in 2003 after deciding to turn his back on a potential career as a professional cyclist and take up boxing full time having first got involved in the sport in 1996.
"Life was good growing up, it was just a normal life. We weren't poor, we weren't rich, we were just a normal family growing up in Armenia," he adds.
"I was just a normal boy like everyone else. I was good at school and worked hard. I played a few tricks on the other kids, but I was just a normal guy. When I think of Armenia, I think only of the good times we had there."
Abraham understandably is a national hero in his homeland despite spending the past seven years in Germany. He became IBF middleweight champion in 2005 after defeating Nigerian Kingsley Ikeke with a fifth-round knockout. Eleven more victories followed before he relinquished his title to step up to super-middleweight to compete in the Super Six series.
A stunning 12th round knockout of Jermain Taylor saw him open the tournament with a victory but defeat against Dirrell - his first in a 32 fight career - then followed in March. Abraham took one month off before returning to training and his prediction for the fight with Froch is simple.
"I will be difficult against him, but I will win," he concluded.
Arthur Abraham has vowed to send Carl Froch into retirement when the pair battle for the WBC super-middleweight belt in Helsinki on Saturday.
The fight is the latest round of the Super Six series and Nottingham's Froch will try to regain the belt he lost to Mikkel Kessler in April 2010.
Froch, 33, has hinted he may quit if he suffers a second successive loss and Abraham has vowed to send him packing.
"After the fight, Froch can plan his retirement," Abraham told BBC Sport.
Like Froch, Abraham comes into the fight off the back of his only defeat having lost to Andre Dirrell in controversial circumstances in March.
Both fighters are desperate to avenge those defeats and although the pair are guaranteed a place in the semi-finals of the super-middleweight tournament, for Froch, a loss would leave him considering his future in the sport.
"The next fight is all or nothing for me," Froch said last month.
"If it doesn't go my way I will seriously consider retirement because I am only interested in the big title fights. I won't hang around at domestic level."
Abraham is still smarting from his defeat to Dirrell when he was disqualified in the 11th round after striking his opponent on the floor as he slipped to one knee. Up until the point the Armenian-born, German-based 30-year-old had been behind on all three judges scorecards.
It was a frustrating way to lose a previously unblemished 31-fight career record and Abraham has waited over seven months to avenge that defeat from his memory.
And his promoter Kalle Sauerland admits, Abraham has been left frustrated by two postponements with the fight originally scheduled for August before being changed to October only to be moved again to 27 November because of arguments about venues and a back injury to Froch.
"Arthur is used to fighting three of four times a year, he has only fought once in 2010, was ready in August and is seriously annoyed," said Sauerland.
"I don't like waiting seven months for one month, it is not good for me," added Abraham.
The pair get a chance to fight for the WBC title due to Kessler withdrawing from the tournament with an eye injury and relinquishing his belt as a result.
"This fight has the potential to be one of the best of the decade based on the fact that me and Arthur are both coming to win, we're both big punchers and we're both very, very tough men," stated Froch.
Unlike Froch, Abraham is a man of few words, to coin an old boxing adage, he does his talking with his fists.
But like Froch he is a true warrior of the sport, with his victory over Edison Miranda in September 2006 announcing his arrival on the world stage.
Abraham won a points decision against the previously unbeaten Miranda despite having his jaw broken in two places. Miranda was deducted five points by landing repeated low blows as well as intentionally headbutting Abraham in the fifth round.
Carl Froch
Froch suffered his only defeat in April
The fight was something that even four years later, Abraham remembers well.
"It was the hardest fight of my life, of my career and I can still visualise everything," Abraham told BBC Sport.
"It was incredibly tough to keep on boxing during the fight but I did fight on and that is how I was brought up. You have to fight in life. That is what we work for in practice. To keep fighting, even when you hurt.
"My coach told me when you are in the ring, it's life or death, always fight until the end and never go on your knees."
Abraham first came to Germany in 1995 as a 15-year-old and stayed for four years. He returned in 2003 after deciding to turn his back on a potential career as a professional cyclist and take up boxing full time having first got involved in the sport in 1996.
"Life was good growing up, it was just a normal life. We weren't poor, we weren't rich, we were just a normal family growing up in Armenia," he adds.
"I was just a normal boy like everyone else. I was good at school and worked hard. I played a few tricks on the other kids, but I was just a normal guy. When I think of Armenia, I think only of the good times we had there."
Abraham understandably is a national hero in his homeland despite spending the past seven years in Germany. He became IBF middleweight champion in 2005 after defeating Nigerian Kingsley Ikeke with a fifth-round knockout. Eleven more victories followed before he relinquished his title to step up to super-middleweight to compete in the Super Six series.
A stunning 12th round knockout of Jermain Taylor saw him open the tournament with a victory but defeat against Dirrell - his first in a 32 fight career - then followed in March. Abraham took one month off before returning to training and his prediction for the fight with Froch is simple.
"I will be difficult against him, but I will win," he concluded.
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