Froch: No Hopkins or GGG, I'll Wait For Chavez Jr.

By Edward Chaykovsky

IBF/WBA 'regular' super middleweight champion Carl Froch, and his promoter Eddie Hearn, are taking a pass on doing a fight with former two-division champion Bernard Hopkins. Instead, they are going to wait for a June fight with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in June.

Chavez has finalized a fight with Andrzej Fonfara for April 18th. If he wins, he hopes to face Froch next. There were talks for a Chavez-Froch fight on March 28. The Nottingham fighter withdrew on Monday with an elbow injury.

Hearn told Gareth Davies of the Telegraph that he offered Froch the possibility of facing either Hopkins and Gennady Golovkin on a June date in Nottingham, and Froch passed on both as prefers to wait for a fight with Chavez in Las Vegas.

Froch told Telegraph Sport: "I'm not really interested. I'm prepared to wait until (I'm fit again) and I'll face Chavez in Las Vegas in June."

Hearn told the paper: "The focus is still on Chavez in June, but I think the Froch-Hopkins fight would be massive. The choice will come down to what Carl wants to do, though."

By Edward Chaykovsky

Froch told Telegraph Sport: "I'm not really interested. I'm prepared to wait until (I'm fit again) and I'll face Chavez in Las Vegas in June."

Hearn told the paper: "The focus is still on Chavez in June, but I think the Froch-Hopkins fight would be massive. The choice will come down to what Carl wants to do, though."