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He's going to fight De Gale. The only thing holding the fight up is De Gale agreeing to take the ver y short end of the purse.

If that is true, I don't blame Degale. He's the champion, why should he take the short end?
With every day that goes by, Froch is less marketable and less relevant. It'll end up that Degale v Groves will make more money than Degale v Froch.
FROCH IS RETIRED!

Froch gave the title away.

Yes he did. So he deserves the bigger end of the wedge? He gave up that advantage with the title.
He started making the big money with the Groves fights , and let's be fair that was down to Groves as much as was him. He was the Champ and took 80-85% . He can't have it both ways.

Shame for Carl, he's left it too late to find another big money fight. Boxing wise Degale GGG and Groves again offer interesting 50/50 fights, Ward always beats him. Happy retirement talking Jim Watt type bollox.

[No Contest]

I think Froch's loud mouth girlfriend (if they are still together) could distract GGG and let him land a big punch. It would be a good fight if Froch shakes off the ring rust. I'm interested and Calzaghe def was the one dodging if any of them were. Froch was a low reward high risk but it doesn't mean Calzaghe gets a pass for not fighting him. Calzaghe was fighting guys like Manfredo instead.

[Lineal]

Froch maybe secretly holding out for Chavez Jr. If Jr wins his next fight I think for Froch it's the perfect fight to retire on.

[Kirkland Laing]

I think Froch's loud mouth girlfriend (if they are still together) could distract GGG and let him land a big punch. It would be a good fight if Froch shakes off the ring rust. I'm interested and Calzaghe def was the one dodging if any of them were. Froch was a low reward high risk but it doesn't mean Calzaghe gets a pass for not fighting him. Calzaghe was fighting guys like Manfredo instead.

Froch was offered the Calzaghe fight twice and bottled the opportunity both times.

[tysonesque]

I think Froch's loud mouth girlfriend (if they are still together) could distract GGG and let him land a big punch. It would be a good fight if Froch shakes off the ring rust. I'm interested and Calzaghe def was the one dodging if any of them were. Froch was a low reward high risk but it doesn't mean Calzaghe gets a pass for not fighting him. Calzaghe was fighting guys like Manfredo instead.

Froch was offered the Calzaghe fight twice and bottled the opportunity both times.

Just as well really because Calzaghe would have handed Froch the same kind of beating he gave Lacy. Calzaghe was in a different league to Froch.

[Master]

I think Froch's loud mouth girlfriend (if they are still together) could distract GGG and let him land a big punch. It would be a good fight if Froch shakes off the ring rust. I'm interested and Calzaghe def was the one dodging if any of them were. Froch was a low reward high risk but it doesn't mean Calzaghe gets a pass for not fighting him. Calzaghe was fighting guys like Manfredo instead.

Froch was offered the Calzaghe fight twice and bottled the opportunity both times.

Froch was not in the radar of Joe who had just beaten 2 undefeated champions and then went on to fight 2 legends. Froch was not relevant and Joe would have out boxed him easily.

[Kirkland Laing]

I think Froch's loud mouth girlfriend (if they are still together) could distract GGG and let him land a big punch. It would be a good fight if Froch shakes off the ring rust. I'm interested and Calzaghe def was the one dodging if any of them were. Froch was a low reward high risk but it doesn't mean Calzaghe gets a pass for not fighting him. Calzaghe was fighting guys like Manfredo instead.

Froch was offered the Calzaghe fight twice and bottled the opportunity both times.

Froch was not in the radar of Joe who had just beaten 2 undefeated champions and then went on to fight 2 legends. Froch was not relevant and Joe would have out boxed him easily.

“I would have loved to fight Calzaghe in July and could have been ready. I could have gone back into training next week, but I don’t think Calzaghe and his team wanted to risk sampling the power of my right uppercut!
“His promoter made an offer to me that I felt was derisory. They also turned down a very generous offer of £1.6 million from my promoter Mick Hennessy, which valued the fight at twice their amount if you work on the standard terms of the split for a purse bid.
“Bearing in mind that there were no options involved, you can make of that what you want."


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Here's what I make of it. Warren offered Froch 200-250K to fight Calzaghe. At that point Froch's biggest purse had probably been about 15-20% of that, maybe less.


When Eubank got the chance to fight Benn he was offered 50K. He grabbed it because he knew what beating Benn would do for his career. When Calzaghe fought Eubank for the title he made 80K, but the money wasn't an issue, it was a chance to win the title and be part of the Benn-Eubank lineage.


Froch got offered the fight for maybe three times what Calzaghe was offered. But again the money is irrelevant. It's the fihgt that matters. Beat Calzaghe and you beat an unbeaten champion who beat Eubank, who beat Benn. Beating Calzaghe would have turned Froch from a nobody to an overnight star in Britain. His next fight would have been for a million plus purse.


Instead he bottled it. He got the chance to fight Calzaghe after the Lacy fight too but bottled that chance as well and Manfredo got the fight.


Carl Froch. Self-serving bullshitting bottle job.

[X]

I agree, I don't think anybody reasonable could think that Calzaghe ducked Froch because he was afraid of losing. At the time, Calzaghe was the World number 1, a big star, and his hands were starting to 'go'. Froch was just starting out and was a nobody, so why would Calzaghe see him as a possible opponent?

I do believe that Froch thought he would win, and I do believe that Calzaghe thought he would win.

Both turned out to be great champions, but in slightly different eras.

[Kirkland Laing]

I agree, I don't think anybody reasonable could think that Calzaghe ducked Froch because he was afraid of losing. At the time, Calzaghe was the World number 1, a big star, and his hands were starting to 'go'. Froch was just starting out and was a nobody, so why would Calzaghe see him as a possible opponent?

I do believe that Froch thought he would win, and I do believe that Calzaghe thought he would win.

Both turned out to be great champions, but in slightly different eras.

If Froch thought he would win he would have fought him. He had the opportunity to become a huge name in boxing overnight and go from making a few thousand per fight to potentially a few million per fight. If you're a contender coming up -- and you get the chance to fight an unbeaten champion who would make you a huge name if you win -- and you're confident of winning, you would take that fight for free.

Froch just ran his mouth for years about fighting Calzaghe to try and make a name for himself and when he eventually got a very generous offer to fight Calzaghe he bottled it. Twice.