Hardest back to back runs, last 10 years in all of boxing, through hell and back. Clearly beat Dirrell, who came to not fight. You can't win a fight, by not fighting. Everyone and their mama knows undefeated Bute, Groves and Pascal, Kessler and Taylor were all elite. It's just the different wording we're using differently. You only call a very few people elite. I say that the top 5-10 in a division are the elite performers of the weight divsion. Froch proved everyone wrong and as we all know, the milk man always delivers.