Hearn: I don’t think Froch will fight again

By Boxing News - 06/11/2015 - Comments

hearn7890By Scott Gilfoid: In addressing concerns that WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler has about him ignoring him, Eddie Hearn, the promoter for former IBF/WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs), says he’s not purposefully ignoring Loeffler about a potential fight between Froch and Golovkin.

It’s just that Hearn’s not sure if Froch will ever fight again. Indeed, Hearn says that he believes Froch will never fight again. That’s what Hearn feels right now based on the conversations he’s been having with the 37-year-old fighter.

Hearn said that Froch trained recently and quickly took off the gloves and stopped training after less than two rounds of work. The thing is Froch had planned on putting in a decent workout, but instead he quit after just a little work. Hearn says he sees that as a bad sign.

“He [Froch] did a little bit the other day. He said he was going to do six threes on the bag, and he did about a round and a half,” Hearn said to Behind the Gloves about Froch. “He then took his gloves off. It’s not a good sign. I saw the stuff about people saying that Golovkin’s promoter [Tom Loeffler] is saying we’re ignoring him. We’re not. We just don’t know if we’re going to fight. We know what the deal is. If we fight again it will probably be Golovkin. But I don’t think he’ll [Froch] fight again. That’s the gut feeling I’m getting,” Hearn said.

Well, I can’t say I’m surprised if Froch retires at this point. I mean, the options for him are pretty bleak if he does choose to fight on. There’s Gennady Golovkin or James DeGale, and both of those matches would be very tough for Froch.

The soft touch opponent that Froch wanted to fight, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., was totally thrashed by Andrzej Fonfara last April. Once Chavez Jr. was taken out of the equation, Froch has seemingly lost all of his ambition, which is kind of sad because the Chavez Jr. wasn’t going to be any kind of challenge for him. It was just going to be a payday fight. I don’t know if Froch thought the boxing public would be impressed with him beating Chavez Jr. If that’s Froch’s line of thinking, he was really kidding himself because Chavez Jr. had already been exposed by Sergio Martinez in 2012, and he’d done nothing since that fight other than to be given a gift decision over journeyman Brian Vera in their first fight in 2013, and then picking up an unimpressive win over Vera in their second fight.

Golovkin or DeGale would give Froch a good payday, perhaps even more money than he’d have gotten had he fought Chavez Jr. under the lights in Las Vegas, Nevada. The thing is Golovkin and DeGale would be potentially tough fights for Froch, especially the Golovkin fight.

Froch might get knocked out, and that obviously would be a tough way for Froch to go into retirement on unless he were able to mentally process things and realize that it’s just a game. There would be a high chance that Froch would wind up on the canvas face down if he were to fight Golovkin, and somehow I think the thought of that is what is paralyzing Froch, and keeping him from making a decision about that fight.



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