Nottingham’s Froch, bidding to regain his WBC super-middleweight title here tomorrow night, faces an ex-world champion who demonstrated incredible bravery in the epic September 2006 contest against Edison Miranda which made his fighting name.
Armenian Abraham, whose disqualification in his last fight is his only reverse in 32 contests, had his jaw broken badly in two places in the fourth round following a right hand by Colombian Miranda.
But Abraham carried on to win a brutal fight on points.
“Nothing Froch can throw at me will come close to what I went through in that bout,” said Abraham. “I know I did the right thing by fighting on, to keep my title and my pride.”
Both Froch and Abraham have been involved in a war of words but Abraham said: “Only one person has ever gotten under my skin and that is Miranda. But I defeated him with a broken jaw and then knocked him out in the rematch. Froch will meet a similar fate.”
FROCH v Abraham tomorrow is exclusively in the UK on Primetime (Channel 480 on Sky and Virgin on demand) from 7.30pm.