Froch Rejects DeGale - Even if He Beats Dirrell
May 18, 2015 • 5:51 AM ET
By Edward Chaykovsky
Carl Froch has rejected the idea of facing Olympic gold medal winner James DeGale - even if he captures the IBF super middleweight championship with a victory on Saturday night against Andre Dirrell in Boston.
Froch vacated the title back in February, because he had no interest in making a mandatory defense against DeGale. The IBF ordered DeGale and Dirrell to fight for the vacant crown. Dirrell lost a controversial twelve round decision to Froch several years ago in the Super Six tournament.
Inactive since last May's knockout of George Groves before a record crowd of 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, Froch is not confident of being tempted to fight again.
"I'll be flipping a coin to see if I am going to fight again but to be totally honest, the DeGale fight doesn't do anything for me," he told Sky Sports. "I can't get motivated to fight him. It's not an exciting fight for me. That's in no way disrespectful to DeGale because if he beats Dirrell - which is a tough task - he's done well.
"I hope he does beat him and brings the title back to Britain. That's good for British boxing, keeping the titles over here. I've just vacated the IBF so it would be nice to see it come back to England, but is it a fight that I fancy? Not really."
