Calzaghe Not Interested in Fighting Froch
April 28th, 2009
By Eric Thomas: It was expected that former World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe wouldn’t be interested in fighting WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch, and now it’s academic after Calzaghe came publicly yesterday and said that he will not be coming out of retirement to fight Froch. For many people in the boxing world, this isn’t exactly unexpected news, because Calzaghe seemed to have made up his mind that he was through with the sport when he retired recently.
However, I’m not sure if Froch was aware of how lucky he was in getting the win over Taylor, because Froch would have lost the fight if Taylor had stayed on his feet for another 14 seconds of the fight. Additionally, Froch was knocked down in the 3rd round by Taylor and beaten in most of the first six rounds of the fight.
In the end, Froch got the win, but he failed to impress many boxing fans around the world, and probably least of all Calzaghe. Froch was under the impression that the win over Taylor would perhaps get Calzaghe to change his mind about not wanting to fight him.
I’m not sure how Froch could twisted things in his mind to even consider a notion like that, because there are arguably better super middleweights than Taylor, fighters such as Lucian Bute, Mikkel Kessler, Andre Ward, Andre Dirrell, Allan Green, and Librado Andrade. The fact that Froch had to struggle against Taylor and needed a last second knockout to get the victory doesn’t exactly make him an attractive opponent for a fighter like Calzaghe.
Froch looked out of his league against Taylor in the first half of the fight, and took a lot of hard shots from the quicker and surprisingly more powerful Taylor. Luckily for Froch, Taylor tired out fast in the fight and had nothing at all left in the final six rounds of the bout.
It was as if Taylor had hit a wall physically after the 6th round and was only able to throw jabs for the remainder of the fight. It was at this point that Froch was able to get into the fight and come on to win many of the round, although not always convincingly.
If Froch wants to make a mark in the sport – and perhaps get even with Calzaghe for ignoring his requests for a fight – Froch needs to try and clean the table by taking on Kessler, Bute, Ward, Karoly Balzsay, Dirrell, Andrade and Green.
If Froch can beat all or most of those fighters, it won’t matter whether Calzaghe fought him or not. Froch will have made a ton of money and gone a long ways in making a name for himself in boxing.
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I well remember the louiville lip calling everyone out instead of just waiting patiently and it certainly got his boxing career well on track LOL
i would love 2 see joe bash him up but dont wanna see froch have 5 million thoi so stay off joe thanks for all you have done for world boxing and forget froch the spoilt bum.
i’m from nottingham and even i dislike froch. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be the best but he just is nowhere near that at the moment and shouldn’t continue to call out fighters who are at a different level of class to him at the moment. he has an obsession with joe and i don’t blame Joe for being annoyed. Joe wouldn’t knock him out like he says he would, but he would throw 100 punches a round for 12 rounds and work him down and make him look stupid he really would beat him easily. Taylor had froch wobblying in the 8th and luckly the bell rang just in time because i beleive if the round would have last 5secs longer taylor would of knocked him out, i was stunned to see how powerful taylor looked upto the 7th round. Taylor was a good middleweight and has maybe seen better days and froch scrapped by him…i think a kessler would easily take the tittle off him.
he’ll be calling out bruno next
what have ben eubank joe all got in common?? they all smash frochy boy pmsl
Good article…..
Johno
Theres so many doors going to be opening for Froch why keep bangin on the 1 thats guna stay shut.
He claimed he wants to be a superstar, well the performace v Taylor hasnt really given him that he needs to do something more convincing against the same level of class.
So get to it Froch, forget Calzaghe get the Butes and Andres
Froch aint in joes league anyone who realy knows there boxing can see that.I realy think froch should stay well clear of kessler, bika, miranda ward and dirrell if he wants to stay world champion.Oh yea why hasnt froch called out benn or eubank or collins there all retired?Well he doesnt seem to call out active fighters.
Froch just wants do be the best, he went over to america and fought for a purse which is small by todays standards its not the payday that makes him want to fight calzaghe its the respect and recognition and its a breath of fresh air to see a fighter who cares more about achievements more than money unlike a list (that would take me all day to write) of fighters.
I do think JC is the better fighter but the way Froch is targeting Kessler, Pavlik etc he will have the americans respect more than Joe will and he wont have Scott Gilfoid writing pointless articles week after week about him
calling out j.c is pointless as he will not fight again,it’s final and froch needs to give taylor a ddeserved rematch!!and he needs to put in a polished performance not just relying on power,don’t get me wrong i like froch but he fought like a novice.but he’s brave and powerfull and has a granite chin so to beat him you’ve gotta have the stamina to hit and move for 12 full rnds and also rely on froch fighting like he did against taylor!!