By Edward Chaykovsky
Former super middleweight king Andre Ward (30-0, 15KOs) was once again approached about the possibility of facing WBC/IBO/WBA/IBF middleweight king Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs).
Ward tried his best to get a fight with Golovkin last year. That never happened and Ward made a decision to move up to 175-pounds.
This coming Saturday night, Ward will challenge WBO/IBF/WBA world champion Sergey Kovalev at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Ward would like to see retired super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24KOs) take him on.
"I'd like to see Carl Froch fight Gennady Golovkin," Ward said to Sky Sports. "I heard rumours he may be coming out of retirement."
"I think that ship has sailed [himself fighting Golovkin], that was the point in moving up [to light-heavy]. I pushed hard for that fight, unfortunately it just didn't happen. I think it would have been a great fight."
But Froch has no intention of coming out of retirement for a fight with Golovkin.
Froch has not fought since May of 2014, when he knocked out George Groves before a record crowd of 80,000 people at Wembley Stadium. He officially announced his retirement from the sport in July of last year.
There were some discussions about a Froch vs. Golovkin fight in 2015. Froch decided to retire instead of taking the fight.
In a twist, Froch would like to see Ward fight Golovkin at a catch-weight of 170-pounds.
"If Golovkin wants to fight the best - and after talking about moving up to somewhere near super-middleweight or even 171-172lbs when my negotiations with him took place over a year ago - I am sure Andre Ward could make that weight. Ward may or may not beat Sergey Kovalev, but I think he does and I am sure he can make it to [170-pounds] quite easily," Froch said.
"That fight would be one of those where they could say 'now Golovkin is fighting someone credible'. If he wants to talk about being the best, then he needs to fight the best. So if Ward beats Kovalev that is a fight I would certainly love to see. I am not sure it would be a 50-50 - simply for the weight reasons - but he was happy to fight someone two weight divisions below him so why not come up one division and fight Ward at super-middleweight or [170-pounds]? Then he can show how great he is, how unbeatable he is, how hard he punches. But I will tell you now, Golovkin will get a shock and he'd get beat by Andre Ward," Froch said.
