Frank Warren:

Ultimately Joe beat everyone who was put in front of him. He fought every one of his mandatories and won. As for Froch, at no time in his career has he been the number one super-middleweight.Why didn't Froch and Calzaghe ever fight? It didn't take place because he sat down with me in the Westbury Hotel twice and I offered him big money to fight Joe both times, but he didn't want to know.
All he kept asking was, 'when is Joe moving up to light heavyweight?' That's a fact. Carl came down with his financial advisors and we had two meetings. He said he was out of contract with his promoter Mick Hennessy, but that's as far as it got. I know I offered him much more than he was earning at the time, but he wouldn't take it.


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