The Hearns obviously want the fight. What promoter doesn't want to do a huge Wembley/PPV show.

Golovkin and his promoter want it. So it's down to Froch. Either Froch is telling the truth when he says he's going to sit down with various people and talk about whether he fights again or it's just a negotiating ploy -- I want this size piece of the split or I'm not playing -- and Froch and Hearn are both using the possible retirement to get the best deal they can in negotiations.

I think if he was going to retire he would just have retired. He's left the door open because he still fancies a big payday. Another big Wembley show, PPV and so on. Notice not a word about this fight being in Vegas. If fighting in Vegas was really the most important thing to him they could make the fight with Golovkin in Vegas in a flash. Now he's saying if he does fight again it'll be Golovkin.

There's no way under normal circumstances he turns down a five million quid payday. If he does turn down the fight it'll be because he's scared of ending his career getting flattened like Groves.