Comments Thread For: Carl Froch: If No Chavez, 'Strong Chance' That I'll Retire

[Divine Hammer]

will be sad to see a warrior like froch leave the sport. he is a true ATG future hall of fame legend.

[MrFynest]

I do unsterstand where he comes from. At the age of 37 he's already accomplished what he needed to. While he's still a distant number 2 behind Ward he wants a quality name where he can earn a good payday. Chavez is the right name. GGG is also a good name. Who else is out there for him where he can earn a good pay day? While Ward has his number, he isn't much of a draw not even in his hometown.

[MrRolltide91]

Besides ward and chavez, who else is out there?

he already in his late 30's

[Bigg Rigg]

Why is Froch acting as if fighting Chavez Jr would be career defining? Sure he'll get a decent payday but who is Chavez Jr and what has he done that's so great that Froch is basing his decision to retire on whether he fights Chavez or not?

Jr is a cash cow I guess. Ward, the #2 fighter in the world is also beasting for a fight with him.

[Tomato cans]

I was about to say the same thing man, Calzaghe ducked Froch at the end of his career and Froch was crushed when that happened (and rightfully so, because that fight would have been awesome). Now Froch is going to retire and effectively duck Degale as a result. On the one hand, Froch is a true warrior, there's no denying that. On the other hand, and perhaps most importantly, I BET FROCH will look back one day and realize he did to Degale what Calzaghe did to him - and he will regret that.

Why not have that fight, make those extra £4,000,000+ ($6.5 MILLION+ approx) and enjoy the rest of his life knowing he didn't ***** out like Calzaghe did to him?

Is Degale the NEW Froch? (in the sense that the top fighters in the division were initially afraid to fight him).

There will always be a new guy who wants to fight you. If you would fight them all you would never be able to quit.

[Xyei]

I can't blame him. He's fought everyone and now he's only interested in big money fights. He's earned it. I'll be sad to see him leave the sport but happy knowing he retired on a high note. There's no point in fighting if he's not motivated. I'm sure he'd make a good commentator and his Wife certainly must do okay financially with her modeling career.

[Daddy T]

Besides ward and chavez, who else is out there?

he already in his late 30's

Gennady Golovkin

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Good choice honestly. Retire on a high note instead of fizzling out by fighting other semi-retirees (most of the 168 division).

[FlatLine]

There will always be a new guy who wants to fight you. If you would fight them all you would never be able to quit.

It's a bit different when the new guy is the number one contender in the world for your World Title, he's your mandatory fight, he's from your own country and he's been asking to fight you for many, many years already (way before he became your mandatory fight) - that's an usual set of combined factors but that's the situation with Froch and Degale right now. Degale has been wanting to fight Froch for YEARS and now he's the mandatory challenger.

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It's a bit different when the new guy is the number one contender in the world for your World Title, he's your mandatory fight, he's from your own country and he's been asking to fight you for many, many years already (way before he became your mandatory fight) - that's an usual set of combined factors but that's the situation with Froch and Degale right now. Degale has been wanting to fight Froch for YEARS and now he's the mandatory challenger.

He just knocked out the guy who beat DeGale. People are trying to create buzz that just isn't there.

Say he beats DeGale and some guy DeGale already beat becomes the new mandatory... Repeat.