By Mark Vester
WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch is starting to see the light. He admits a fight with retired British rival Joe Calzaghe will probably never happen. Froch is locked into Showtime's tournament, the Super Six Boxing Classic.
He predicts at least another 18-months of fights in the tournament. By then Calzaghe, now 38, will be too old to make the fight. Froch had been chasing Calzaghe for the last few years. After knocking capturing the vacant WBC title and knocking out Jermain Taylor, Froch was sure the fight would happen. Instead Calzaghe retired in early 2009. After both of them are long gone from the sport, he thinks Calzaghe will regret his decision to retire without the two of them fighting.
"I don't think that fight will ever happen now, especially as Calzaghe's lifestyle was recently exposed. He's 38 now and when I win the Super Six tournament it'll be another 18 months or two years down the line and by then it will be too late for him. I really don't care if he does come out of retirement or not," Froch told Sportinglife.
"I've got money in the bank that secures the future for my family and myself so I'm happy with how things are. It would have been a fight the fans would have loved to have seen and I think if you want to consider yourself as the best you have to fight the best. He had a spell when he was number one in the world and I put myself in line to take him on. I wanted the challenge and he didn't, end of story. He'll be the one that regrets it, not me."
Froch faces ex-champion Mikkel Kessler this weekend in Denmark. He's ready to do whatever is needed to win.
"The game plan, as always, will be to win and I'll do whatever it takes to do that. I'll take a stoppage or a win on points, I don't really care as long as I end the night still a world champion. If I can get a KO then that's great. You always want an early night if possible - you don't get paid overtime," Froch said.
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