By Mark Vester
WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch has given his side of the feud with WBA 140-pound champion Amir Khan. During a few interviews with BoxingScene.com, Khan lashed out at Froch over some of his negative comments. He said Froch was jealous of him. Froch is giving his side of the events.
"He's gotten upset because I gave a little feedback on his Prescott defeat and reported that I'd heard that the Kotelinik win was a little dull from reports off my friends who'd paid for the show and were disappointed. He's just a bit young and fragile and probably just needs a hug from the rest of Team Khan or his personal chauffeur or whatever," Froch told livefight.com.
Froch says there was nothing personal about the comments and he was only trying to speak the truth. After Khan was blown out by Breidis Precott, Froch said there were some serious questions that had to be answered about Khan's abilities and his chin.
"Maybe the truth I spoke has dented King Khan's fragile ego and now i'm the focus of his mind - But I've got no beef with the guy. I know if I took a bad defeat, I would walk through fire to get back at the guy. I wouldn't let it go like that, no way. But that's me," Froch said.
Froch wasn't too impressed with Khan's big win from last weekend over Dmitriy Salita. Without making the situation a personal attack, Froch questioned the credentials of Salita.
"Without wanting to upset King Khan again - who is this Salita fella? I'm not being derogatory but honestly, I've never heard of the bloke. I'd want to see an opponent at least take a shot and throw some back. I suppose it's down to the mandatory situation that he fought Amir," Froch said.
"Maybe I don't follow enough boxing, but correct me if wrong, Salita was never regarded as a hot prospect. If he was any good we'd have all heard about him before he'd got to the number-1 spot wouldn't we? That guy Salita had no business in there and i'd bet my house on him never getting another shot again at any belt."
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