Froch: 'I Would Have Knocked Calzaghe Out, He Knows It'
By Mark Vester
WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch recently spoke with shortlist.com about his upcoming fight with Mikkel Kessler on April 24 in Denmark. Over the last two years, he waged a war of words with Joe Calzaghe. The fight never took place. Froch knew the fight was off the table when Calzaghe retired in early 2009. During the interview, Froch said he was quite confident Calzaghe would have been knocked out if the two of them met in the ring.
"Yeah, I’m gutted the fight never happened because I would definitely have knocked him out, and he knows it. He knows what I’m like with southpaws; they just walk straight on to my devastating right uppercut. He knew what was going to happen, so he opted not to fight me. He vacated the belt rather than defend it against me," Froch said.
Froch later told promoter Frank Warren to stay out of Ricky Hatton's business. Warren advised Hatton to retire from the ring.
"I don’t think Frank Warren has got the right to tell anybody to do anything, because he’s never boxed in his life. All he’s done is promote and he doesn’t understand the sport from the boxer’s eyes. I wouldn’t listen to anything Frank Warren says about boxing. Ricky Hatton has still got a few fights left in him. If he could get himself into shape he could still entertain people and compete – at a certain level," Froch said.
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