Carl Froch once named the man he faced who could take the best shot.
Froch remains a big character in boxing who, much like in his fighting career, never pulls his punches.
He has long-running feuds with everyone from Anthony Joshua to John Fury and, of course, Joe Calzaghe, who he never faced in the ring and somewhat overshadows him when it comes to discussions of the best super middleweights Britain has ever produced.
Froch won multiple world championships in the division, including the WBC, IBF and WBA belts while beating the likes of Arthur Abrhaam, Jean Pascal, George Groves and Mikkel Kessler.
Speaking to the Ring Magazine’s Best I Ever Faced feature, ‘The Cobra’ — who had his own granite chin — named the opponent who was the most durable he ever came up against.
“Glen Johnson: He was never in trouble, and I hit him with some really heavy digs. I saw him coming, set my feet, hit him with combinations, reset myself and hammered him with more big shots. All of that and he was going nowhere. He was switched on that night, because the prize was a huge fight with Ward, so I had to be on form.”
Froch beat Johnson in 2011 over 12 rounds to retain his WBC strap in the semi-final of the Super Six World Boxing Classic. He lost it on points in the final to Andre Ward in December of the same year, but then beat Lucian Bute at home in Nottingham the following year to claim the IBF strap he then kept hold of until he retired in 2014.
