Carl Froch got out of boxing on a high but is still receiving offers to step back through the ropes over ten years later.
Froch is one of the best British fighters of the last 20 years. The career-long super middleweight rose through the ranks at a time when boxing enjoyed a huge boom in popularity and his career ended with one of the biggest events in decades.
Froch held multiple world championships in the super-middleweight division. He held the WBC title as well as the IBF strap and WBA belts, all having also won British and Commonwealth titles between 2004 and 2008.
His most famous victories included a last-second knockout win against Jermain Taylor, and two victories over British rival George Groves. The first was a controversial mid-round stoppage in Manchester, the second a sweet knockout in front of 80, 000 fans at Wembley Stadium.
That was the last punch the Nottingham man ever threw in the ring and he has since become a popular pundit and commentator.
Speaking on his own Froch on Fighting channel, he revealed that he was given a huge offer to return to the ring against UFC star Darren Till on a Misfits show after the former MMA man found himself without an opponent.
“I was actually offered the fight with Darren Till, Mams Taylor phoned me up and offered me the fight. It wasn’t a bad little bit of bunce really.
“I thought to myself I needed at least four weeks in the gym, it was over Christmas, I’d been busy with the family.
“I’d been away skiing and I thought I’m only going to have a week on British soil and one week is not enough even for ‘The Cobra’, former unified world champion Hall of Famer to go in there and bash up someone who can’t fight like Darren Till.
“I turned it down, I should have probably took it to be honest. I’d only need a couple of rounds of shadow boxing to beat Darren Till. “
Till had signed to fight Tommy Fury but the latter pulled out due to threats of MMA tactics. Instead, he faced off with crossover boxing stalwart Anthony Taylor and stopped him in six rounds.
