Carl Froch has just posted this picture on Twitter...

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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.