IBF and WBA super-middleweight champion Carl Froch has dismissed George Groves's attempts to reveal a strategy to win his world title on Saturday night.

Groves indicated that he was prepared to share the middle of the ring with Froch at the Phones4U Arena in Manchester this weekend, but the Nottingham fighter has insisted that he doesn't believe that the challenger has any intention of trading punches with him.

The 36-year-old told reporters: "I'm very surprised that he has come up with that little gameplan in this short amount of time. So he's going to come to the centre of the ring to hit me with two right hands? So the first one isn't going to do any damage, so he's going to try with a second one.

"My experience at the top level, my punching power, and George Groves's lack of ability to take a punch is going to be the reason that he's not going to do what he has said that he is going to do.

"It's the reason that he going to come into the ring to run for his life, grab and jab, and try to get through it. He's not going to stand and fight. Regardless of what he decides to do, I will win the fight."

Froch will be hoping that victory on Saturday evening can help secure a big-money encounter in the spring of 2014.