By Edward Chaykovsky
The pride of Wales, Joe Calzaghe, is still very confident that he would beaten down Carl Froch many years ago. The two fighters often exchanged words when Froch was coming up in the ranks and first capture the WBC super middleweight title six years ago. At the time Calzaghe had already moved up to the light heavyweight division and was chasing fights in America, with Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr.
Recently Calzaghe and Froch renewed their domestic rivalry, as they traded words on the social networks. Calzaghe has been retired for since 2009 and has no plans to return for Froch, who himself is on the edge of announcing his retirement.
"If he is going to fight, I think he should fight quality opposition, as in (Gennady) Golovkin or DeGale. There's a few options out there but that's up to him at the end of the day. He's been inactive for over a year so I think it is going to be difficult when you've been out of the ring for a long time," Calzaghe told Sky Sports. "Speed kills. I make good fighters look ordinary, that's what I did. Styles make fights, speed kills, simple as that."
"Like myself, I was injured quite a few times. One time I didn't box for a year and it told. I was ring-rusty. He's 38-odd now, he's not getting any younger. We had a little bit of banter on Twitter which was funny. He's not blocked."
"I haven't got a relationship with him. It's irrelevant. I retired six years ago. It would have been a great fight, a big money fight, and I would have demolished him. If there was one fight I wish I had fought, it would have been Carl Froch. At the time I had bigger and better things, fighting Mikkel Kessler for the undisputed championship of the world, and then I stepped up to light-heavyweight to win a Ring Magazine in America against the then pound-for-pound best (Bernard Hopkins). I didn't expect him to have the career that he had. He's done well, he's won world titles, lost, come back and won again, lost and come back and won again.
"I've been retired six years and I'm not coming back now. If I was coming back, I'd fight the best - Andre Ward is the best right now. He's No 1 in the world and Froch has never been that. Andre Ward and Kovalev, they would be the fights."