Hearn Warns Hopkins: Froch Virtually Unbeatable at Home

By Edward Chaykovsky

Eddie Hearn, promoter for WBA 'regular' super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24KOs), has issued a warning to 50-year-old legend Bernard Hopkins (55-7-2, 32 KOs), who wants to face the Nottingham star in the ring as soon as possible, and he is even willing to travel over to the UK to face Froch in his own backyard.

Hearn is in talks with Golden Boy Promotions to make that fight, although he admits the main target is Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in a summer showdown in Las Vegas.

The Matchroom Sports CEO has no problem making that fight in Nottingham. Hearn sees no possibility of Hopkins being able to overcome Froch at home.

"I woke up earlier this week to a whole bunch of tweets from people asking me about Bernard Hopkins, who has made a few comments about Carl Froch. Froch has described a fight with Hopkins as ‘lose-lose’ and Hopkins has taken that to mean he is running scared. I can assure Bernard that is not the case," Hearn told Daily Mail.

"I am still in talks to make that fight between two legends of the sport. Hopkins has such an awkward style, but I can’t see any way how Froch would lose a fight in Nottingham supported by 40,000 of his home fans. I would say in that environment that he would be virtually unbeatable."