CARL FROCH: I'D HAVE KO'D STARS
Nottingham champ wishes he had been born 20 years earlier
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CARL FROCH wishes he had been born 20 years earlier because it would have meant beatings for ring legends Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard.
You might think the WBC super-middleweight champion has taken too many shots with such wild boasts, but the outspoken boxer isn't around to win popularity contests.
Froch, 32, said: "Top fighters at top level can fight each other 10 times and it isn't going to be 10-0 to one man. I would have been in the mix with Hagler, Hearns and Leonard. Hagler was a fighter and a brawler and I can do that, but I can also box, use my range and boxing skills.
"I'd have not quite done a Sugar Ray Leonard on him but done half a Leonard and half a Hearns. It would have been a mixture of the two.
"I have a better chin than Hearns and I have got some of Leonard's skills. Domestically, Chris Eubank was skilful but crude. Nigel Benn was just a brawler, Steve Collins was just a tough brawler. I don't consider them to have been that hot and I could have beaten all three.
"I would have been a massive superstar in that era."
Nottingham's Froch, unbeaten in all 25 fights, believes he will finally get recognition if he wins the £30million Super Six World Boxing Classic.
He must win five fights inside the next 18 months against rivals including Mikkel Kessler and Arthur Abraham to be crowned king.
The Cobra's first fight in the event to discover the world's top 12-stoner is against the American Andre Dirrell at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham on Saturday. That's followed by Kessler in Copenhagen next March, and Abraham in Britain. The other contestants are Jermain Taylor and Andre Ward.
Each boxer will have three bouts against different opponents in the group stage. A win will be worth two points with one point bonus for a KO or stoppage. A draw will be worth one point.
The top four will go into the semi-finals, where the points leader will box the fourth-placed fighter.
The final is due to take place in early 2011.
The odds are: 9/4 Kessler; 5/2 Abraham, Froch; 6/1 Taylor; 9/1 Dirrell; 10/1 Ward.
This article has 11 comments
When he gets beat by his next opponent we can throw this dross back at him. He is so overated in his own brainless head.
I even this collins would knock him out, but benn and eubank would have been 50/50. Joe and lenoard would be to ellusive. Herans and hagler would murder him. What a plonker!
By Toby. Posted November 1 2009 at 3:02 PM.
i believe hagler,hearns and leonard would have stopped him,he would have been in the mix with benn,collins,and eubank,all 50/50 fights.calzaghe would have found a way to beat him,far too technical for him.
By johnnyb. Posted October 12 2009 at 1:28 PM.
He's a overrated nobody who is a legend in his own mind. If he was lucky, he might have lasted 4 six rounds with anyone of the above. He's overrated and CRAP!!!
By Robert Price. Posted October 11 2009 at 9:33 PM.
Froch is a joker, he calls people out when they've retired. He is a mediocre fighter I think Kessler will do him anyway. All the stuff with Calzaghe turned my opinion of him, I just wish Joe would've knocked him spark out.
By Ben farmer. Posted October 11 2009 at 8:59 PM.
I think Carl is giving his mind a treat stating he would have ruled at this era.
I am an ex boxer and I respect how well the fighter has progressed. I have a good friend called Craig Mcewan whom I would like him to step in with in the future. Hopefully Carl does prove himself by fighting more confirmed fighters and stepping up some weight divisions.
By dan gallacher. Posted October 11 2009 at 7:02 PM.
He's trying to drum up interest in the fight, and good luck to him. National TV don't want to know boxing anymore, and he could be a superstar on par with the likes of Benn, Eubank, Collins and Calzaghe.
By Paul Wickes. Posted October 11 2009 at 2:59 PM.
you cant call him a clown, he is just a boxer who is talking the talk to put bums on seats..... he could have lost his las fight and was loosing on points. he is a good domestic fighter and a good world wide fighter in a division that is not as good as ithas been in the past... a boxer should always be confident, but im afraid i think he may actually believe it....froch, leonard would have stopped u in five!
By mat. Posted October 11 2009 at 12:05 PM.
All world champions have great confidence in their ability as well as having the necessary skills in their chosen sport, so I can't see the problem in Carl Froch's comments, he has done all that has been asked of him.
The true test is if, or when he tastes defeat, how he handles it. that is how he will be remembered.
By Colin Lewis. Posted October 11 2009 at 12:11 PM.
Lol, what a joker. He struggled against Jermaine Taylor. Calzaghe would destroy this guy never mind ray leonard.
By Riz Khan. Posted October 11 2009 at 11:58 AM.
HAHAHA, What a clown, Some of Leonards skills, Who is this ego maniac kidding, he is not fit enought to even speak these legends names let alone think he could of beat them..Arrogant nobody, No one will remember him in 20 years time..Shut up Froch your not ever gonna be good enough..
By Ric Bische. Posted October 11 2009 at 7:50 AM.
This slow, ageing nonentity would have been flattened by Hagler, Leonard and calzhage, and he knows it. What an arrogant pillock he is.
By Keith Price. Posted October 11 2009 at 12:25 AM.