Froch says he lost motivation after Chavez Jr. fight didn’t happen

By Boxing News - 07/20/2015 - Comments

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By Scott Gilfoid: Up until recently, former 168lb world title holder Carl Froch really had his eyes set on wanting a fight against former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Froch had dreams of facing the weight plagued Chavez Jr. in Las Vegas, Nevada, under the lights. Froch thought it would be a big deal to fight Chavez Jr., but it failed to happen after Chavez Jr. was trounced by Andrzej Fonfara last April.

Fonfara basically faced the out of shape Chavez Jr. before Froch could get to him. After Chavez Jr. was thrashed, Froch lost his interest to keep fighting. I mean, he had much more viable fights against relevant fighters that he could have fought like Gennady Golovkin, Andre Ward, Bernard Hopkins, Sergey Kovalev, Adonis Stevenson, Artur Beterbiev or James DeGale, but Froch couldn’t get himself motivated to take those very, very difficult fights. Froch could get motivated for Chavez Jr., but not the other guys. It sort of makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

“Once the Chavez fight fell through at the end of March, since then there’s not been a great deal of things that have come up that I thought ‘yeah, that could work, time wise, motivation wise and a lot of different things,” Froch said to IFL TV.

It’s interesting that Froch could get motivated for a nothing fight against an out of shape fighter like Chavez Jr., but not motivated for guys that always stay in shape and who would a great chance of beating him like the above mentioned fighters like Golovkin, Ward, Hopkins, and DeGale. I don’t know how you lose motivation to fight guys that could potentially beat you.

In terms of money, Froch could have easily sold out Wembley Stadium if he’d elected to face the talented Golovkin. If a Froch vs. George Groves fight could sell out Wembley, then Froch-Golovkin would definitely sell it out. I don’t know of too many people who class Groves as being anywhere near the same talent level as Golovkin.

To me, Groves is right around where Chavez Jr. is in terms of talent and future outlook. Froch winds up his career facing Groves rather than a real test like Golovkin, Kovalev, Stevenson, Beterbiev, Ward, Dirrell, Hopkins or DeGale.

“I would have boxed Chavez if the opportunity was there, it would’ve happened but it didn’t,” Froch said. “If he’d have beaten Fonfara then yeah, I would’ve probably boxed Chavez.”

Other than Chavez Jr. being an easy mark, I don’t see why Froch would have wanted to finish his career facing him rather than someone like Golovkin. Talk about getting out of the sport on a low. I guess it wouldn’t have mattered if Froch had ended his career against Chavez Jr., because it would have amounted to the same thing as where Froch is now with him getting out of the sport off of a win over Groves.

Froch should have known the moment that Chavez Jr. signed for the Fonfara fight that he stood no chance of winning it because Fonfara is a halfway decent fighter and Chavez Jr. is not.



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