Degale v Eubank Jnr

[Primo Carnera]

DeGale retirement messages:


George Groves: "You reached the highest level. Congratulations."

Anthony Joshua: "Congrats champion. You had a great career!"

Badou Jack: "You should be very proud."


Carl Froch: "I would have backed him up & absolutely smashed him to bits."

I genuinely thought that you had made Up the bottom line as a punchline to a joke! Then I looked on Boxing scene and saw it!
Froch is priceless. He retired because he didn’t want GGG, DeGale or Ward and it was Chavez Jr. In Vegas or nothing! Yeah, some sort of warrior he is!

[p4pking]

Lol yeah I thought that Froch line was a joke. Almost have to admire him for being so consistent at this point.

[Kirkland Laing]

You'd think having had some success and made a lot of money would have mellowed him but he seems determined to break his own record for making a tit of himself. What an arsehole.

[Master]

IMMATURE ‘Grow up… I pity you’ – George Groves hits out at Carl Froch after James DeGale retirement comments

The ‘Saint’ has delivered his verdict on his old foe’s recent interview

George Groves has responded to Carl Froch after he made headlines talking about two of his rivals’ retirements in recent weeks.

At the end of January, Groves announced that he was quitting the sport and Froch paid tribute to his former opponent, before reminding him that he was “ironed out by me at Wembley.”

A month later, James DeGale also retired and Froch gave him credit, though also insisted that if they’d ever fought, “I’d have backed him up and absolutely smashed him to bits.”

When asked about these two latest quotes, George Groves told talkSPORT.com: “I don’t understand Carl Froch.

“If he’s trying to now carve out a persona that’s to his advantage that he is just a super negative guy who’s gonna give you stick and get work off the back of it, then I sort of half respect that and appreciate that was his agenda all along.

“But if it’s not, it’s like, ‘Man grow up.’ Do you know what I mean?

“No one’s listening. If you’ve got to be that bullish to get people to listen to you and that’s your craving, then I pity you.

“You just do the obligatory, ‘Well done mate, away you go’.

“Sometimes it’s a little bit forced, sometimes it’s – not disingenuous – but I’m gonna say it because it’s nice to say and that’s part of life.



“Why not just be a nice person?”

Groves beat DeGale twice – once in the amateurs and once as a professional – but posted a respectful message in the wake of his retirement.

Froch’s own retirement came just after a time when DeGale became mandatory to face him and prompted an angry response out of the challenger who missed out on the bout.

Groves believes Froch has held onto one remark and now decided to use it against DeGale now that he’s also quit the sport.

“If you look at David Haye now, he switched a button when he retired,” Groves continued. “He became the sweetest, nicest guy.

“It’s not just for the cameras, he’s literally switched off that bullish, selfish, aggressive, fighter mentality and he’s trying to integrate himself into society.

“Carl Froch can’t do that. Whatever’s going on in his brain can’t allow him to do that.

“He had no rivalry with James DeGale… One comment Froch has hung onto that, he’s waiting until he’s retired and he’s spilled his guts.

“Grow up man, grow up.”

https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/5...-james-degale/

[Beanz]

Maybe Degales dad nicked Frochs pushbike back in the Nottingham hood.

[Dark Lord Al]

Froch just wants to look like a bad ass , he can be annoying.

[powerpuncher]

Froch talks a lot for someone who wasn’t that good. He was a step above someone like DeGale, but was a step below the top dogs. I hated Froch at first, but then I started respecting him. I then started hating him again.