Carl Froch is a proud fighting man who never backed down from a challenge.
Froch’s granite chin got him through plenty of sticky situations in his career, as did his iron will to win.
The best example came when he was down on all three judges’ cards against Jermain Taylor in America back in 2009. Despite being outboxed for most of the fight, Froch never backed down and, with just 14 seconds remaining of the final round, he knocked Taylor down and out to make a first defence of his WBC super-middleweight world title.
He also beat the likes of Mikkel Kessler, avenging a loss in their first fight, as well as Jean Pascal, Arthur Abraham and George Groves twice, in two career-defining fights that were his last in the professional ring.
The only other man to beat the Nottingham man was the great two-weight world champion Andre Ward on points back in December 2011.
Speaking to ProBox TV, however, ‘The Cobra’ admitted that the great Roy Jones Jr would have got the better of him in his prime.
“[Roy Jones Jr] hits you. I can’t say he wouldn’t have hit me, because I get hit with shots. If I’d have got my guard up, he’d have brought that guard down. He’d have been too quick with that jab and he’d have just out-worked me, with speed. [Jones would] have hammered me. You asked me what would have happened — he’d have beaten me up. That’s what would have happened.”
Roy Jones Jr is a legend of the sport, regarded by many as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters of all time, who won his first world title at middleweight, then super-middleweight, light heavyweight and even heavyweight when he beat John Ruiz. He retired in 2022 but recently teased a comeback.
