IBF super-middleweight champion Carl Froch is on a revenge mission against Denmark's Mikkel Kessler He's had a long career and he's definitely in the twilight years but he's still a very formidable force. He's two years younger than me so I can't talk about him being an old man or anything. He's tough and strong and strength is something that stays with you right until late. The first thing to go with a fighter is reflexes but I don't think his style is based on reflexes - a bit like my own. A match with Kessler and getting that defeat off my record is about my legacy. Froch, with 30 wins from 32 bouts, has won twice since the defeat to Ward in the final of the Super Six World Boxing Classic in Atlantic City 13 months ago. He won the International Boxing Federation super-middleweight belt against Bute in his hometown and retained it against Yusaf Mack in the same Capital FM Arena. But the Ward fight haunts him still: "I lost to a guy who was No 2 pound for pound in the world, a guy who they're saying will probably never get beat. He's so proficient at what he does, he's a spoiler, he messes around, he does what he has to win. I'll go in there with a different mindset next time. I'll use my elbow, I'll use a few dirty tactics and it'll be rough and tough. And If I don't win I'll come out and say - you know what, he's good, I can't hit him. You've got to say he's the man at super-middleweight but he's boring, he's a spoiler and I can't get excited about him. I couldn't go to sleep at night doing what he does. I couldn't take any pride in that. While Froch's camp were celebrating the deal with Kessler, David Haye said before the same broadcast: "There's only one fight I feel that can realistically happen for me and that's with Vitali Klitschko, the WBC champion. That would set up a rematch for me with Wladimir to write the wrongs of our first fight [in Hamburg]. He's said he beat me once and doesn't need to do it again. He's 100 per cent right. The only way that fight can happen again is if I beat his brother Vitali, whose last fight was against Manuel Charr? Manuel Who? I've been involved in heavyweight boxing for a long time but I'd never heard of Manuel Charr. Amir Khan, another trying to return to the summit after crushing defeats to Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia, said: "It's only been 10 weeks of training with Virgil Hunter [his new trainer] and already I see a change in my style. I'm more patient and thinking about what I need to do. I fight with my heart too much and make stupid mistakes. When I turned pro I started knocking guys out and thought, I'll be a knockout artist. That was a mistake. My old trainers never told me any better. It's about going back to what got me this far, which is being smart and using my brains. I need to stick to boxing now. Khan, who will fight in Britain twice this year, in April and November, has not struggled for exposure. But Froch is still annoyed about the BBC's splurge on Audley Harrison after the 2000 Olympics. "Audley Harrison really messed that up," he says. His contract said he could pick his own opponents. Why pick someone who can fight back? Fight the pub doorman, someone you can beat up. No chance of that with Froch. Only the best will do in the quest for recognition. "It's finally coming," he says. It's overdue.