Posted: Tue January 15, 2013 11:12AM; Updated: Tue January 15, 2013 11:12AM

Mikkel Kessler to fight Carl Froch in super middleweight fight

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Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler
Mikkel Kessler (right) had a hard-fought win when he faced Carl Froch (left) in 2010.
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LONDON (AP) -- Mikkel Kessler will fight Carl Froch in a super-middleweight rematch in Britain in a title bout.

No date or venue has been confirmed for a rematch of the 2010 fight that Kessler won on a unanimous points decision in his native Denmark.

The 33-year-old Kessler is the WBA champion and has won 46 of his 48 fights - 35 by knockout. Froch (30-2, 22 KO) holds the IBF belt, which the British fighter took off Lucien Bute in May 2011.

Froch says "this is the fight that I want more than anything in the world.''

Kessler says Tuesday, "I don't care where we fight - I said anytime, anywhere.''

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