Carl Froch has revealed who he thinks offered the most resistance to what he could throw across his boxing career.
Nottingham’s Froch is one of the best super-middleweights this country has ever produced. He held several world titles across his career, including the WBC strap from 2008 to 2010, the IBF belt from 2012 to 2015 and the WBA title from 2013 to 2015.
He will forever be linked with a pair of fights with George Groves to end his career. The first saw him put down in the first round and rally to secure what some thought was a controversial early stoppage win, while the second was ended much more conclusively with one of the best right hands he ever threw.
Along the way, Froch’s own famously granite chin was tested plenty of times by the likes of Robin Reid, Mikkel Kessler and Jermain Taylor, but speaking to the Ring Magazine’s Best I Ever Faced feature, ‘The Cobra’ admitted one man he shared the ring with was tougher than any other.
“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 fought the Jamaican ‘Road Warrior’ on June 4, 2011, for the WBC super middleweight championship and a place in the final of the Super Six World Boxing Classic.
Froch managed to secure a majority decision with the cards reading 117–111, 116–112, and 114–114 in his favour. He went on to fight Andre Ward in December the same year but lost a unanimous decision on the cards, while Johnson fought on until 2015, having lost to the likes of eventual Froch victims Lucian Bute and Groves.
