WHAT would it take to get Carl Froch out of retirement. He told Boxing News magazine: โThe fights that make me think about getting in are ones like James Degale against Badou Jack. Genuinely, I look at that and think โimagine if I was still fighting.โ After six rounds, James DeGale is a sitting duck and I eat sitting duckโs ribs for breakfast. DeGale, against me, is a mismatch. Badou Jack is decent but heโs average, he struggled to beat George Groves.โ
Froch however insists he isnโt tempted. โBut Iโm building a house, taking my kids to nice schools, going on lovely holidays. Iโm in a really good place. Iโm loving retirement. Nothing would get me back in that ring at all,โ he said. โI donโt get annoyed when people say I ducked Golovkin. People who say I retired rather than fight Golovkin, theyโre obviously thick. Look at when I retired and why I retired, and look at when the Golovkin fight was talked about โ it was never really an option. It was Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr for a while, then he lost and by that point Iโd been out of the ring for a year.
โThe Golovkin thing came up and I said โfight me at 172lbs and Iโll think about itโ and he wanted me to go down to 166, he wouldnโt even come up to super-middle and I was already retired by that point.
โThese people who sit there thinking theyโre experts and say I retired rather than fight Golovkin, itโs like saying Bruce Lee died before he could beat Mike Tyson. Itโs completely irrelevant.
โGolovkin is a small middleweight, Iโm a big super-middleweight. The fight was maybe talked about a year after I retired and it was never going to happen. Golovkin cannot win a fight against me, heโs not big enough. You canโt talk about Golovkin in the same breath as me.โ