"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

So the much mooted Carl Froch v George Groves match-up is set to be confirmed today

Frochs's resume is one of the best in the sport, with multiple victories over world level operators, with his only non-avenged loss coming to Andre Ward, who is without a shadow of a doubt the #1 fighter at Super Middleweight. There can be little debate that Froch is #2 in the division.

Groves win over DeGale is still his most impressive, and DeGale's stop-start career since then has taken a little bit of a sheen off of that win. In the 2 years since, Groves easily decisioned the hollowed shell of Glen Johnson, and knocked off a bunch of tomato cans.

Froch has a tremendous chin, but throughout his career from domestic to world level, Froch has shipped some heavy heavy shots. Jermain Taylor rocked Froch badly, and floored him for the first time back in 2009. In his last fight with Kessler, Froch took the kind of shots that would usually result in the Dane's hand being raised.

But not many chins are uncrackable, Shane Mosley aside. Paul Williams had a granite chin. Then along came Sergio Martinez.

George Groves, like his stablemate David Haye, is an excellent finisher. Once he finds that shot that snaps your head back, he is going to do everything within his power to stop the fight then and there. The major warning sign on Groves' record was his skin-of-the-teeth victory over Kenny Anderson. Groves was hurt, and while his willingness and preference to go toe to toe to fight his way out of a hole is both admirable and entertaining, if he tries to take a similarly naive approach with Froch it will be lights out early for the young pretender.

Can Froch take Groves' best shot? Surely. Can Groves eat many of those awkward, piston-like straight shots that the Cobra throws from his waist? Probably not.

Don't be surprised if Groves goes the way of Lucien Bute, albeit with a little more resistance.