by Edward Chaykovsky
Nottingham star Carl Froch has exploded on his rival Andre Ward.
During a recent interview, Ward said that he was more than willing to fight Froch on UK soil - but not in Nottingham. Ward said he was open to traveling over to fight Froch at London's Wembley Stadium, where last May Froch had 80,000 fans watch him score a knockout victory over George Groves in their rematch.
In 2011, Ward won a twelve round decision over Froch in the finals of the Super Six tournament in Atlantic City.
He says a rematch with Ward will not draw anything at Wembley, but it will do serious business in Nottingham and likely bring in up to 30,000 fans.
He told the Sports Bar: “Andre Ward says he doesn’t want to come to Nottingham because it’s a [30,000 seat arena] so he’s says if he’s going to come to England it’s going to be for Wembley Stadium - but guess what, Andre Ward, nobody wants to come and see you fight.
“They want to come and see me fight but not against [Ward] at Wembley Stadium. It’s not a big enough fight for Wembley because Andre Ward is boring and unknown – that’s a fact. It’s not a Wembley fight. You can’t just come and fight at Wembley Stadium, you need the right ingredients, like what we had with the second George Groves fight.
“If Andre Ward wants to fight me, like he says he does, why doesn’t he come to Nottingham, get the biggest payday of his career and beat me in my hometown? His excuse was he wants to do it at Wembley Stadium but we can’t go to Wembley because it doesn’t sell. It sells 20-30,000 in Nottingham but at Wembley it doesn’t. This guy is deluded. He hasn’t got a clue.”
