Carl Froch: ‘Gennady Golovkin cannot win a fight against me. He’s not big enough’

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WHAT would it take to get Carl Froch out of retirement. He told Boxing News magazine: โ€œThe fights that make me think about getting in are ones like James Degale against Badou Jack. Genuinely, I look at that and think โ€˜imagine if I was still fighting.โ€™ After six rounds, James DeGale is a sitting duck and I eat sitting duckโ€™s ribs for breakfast. DeGale, against me, is a mismatch. Badou Jack is decent but heโ€™s average, he struggled to beat George Groves.โ€

Froch however insists he isnโ€™t tempted. โ€œBut Iโ€™m building a house, taking my kids to nice schools, going on lovely holidays. Iโ€™m in a really good place. Iโ€™m loving retirement. Nothing would get me back in that ring at all,โ€ he said. โ€œI donโ€™t get annoyed when people say I ducked Golovkin. People who say I retired rather than fight Golovkin, theyโ€™re 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 Iโ€™d been out of the ring for a year.

โ€œThe Golovkin thing came up and I said โ€˜fight me at 172lbs and Iโ€™ll think about itโ€™ and he wanted me to go down to 166, he wouldnโ€™t even come up to super-middle and I was already retired by that point.

โ€œThese people who sit there thinking theyโ€™re experts and say I retired rather than fight Golovkin, itโ€™s like saying Bruce Lee died before he could beat Mike Tyson. Itโ€™s completely irrelevant.

โ€œGolovkin is a small middleweight, Iโ€™m 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, heโ€™s not big enough. You canโ€™t talk about Golovkin in the same breath as me.โ€

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