By Sean McDaniel: Former WBA/WBC/WBO unbeaten super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) had a lot of bad words to say about unbeaten World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) in a recent interview at the City A.M. Calzaghe says “He [Froch] won a title that I gave up and hasn’t stopped b-tching about everybody. Because he’s not making as much money and not getting on TV, I think he’s bitter against the whole world. He’s like a spoilt little bloody b-tch.”

Calzaghe seems to be still harboring anger towards Froch for the way that the Nottingham dogged him while trying to get a fight with Calzaghe before retired last year. Despite Froch’s unbeaten record and high percentage of knockouts, Calzaghe seems to have never seriously considered giving Froch a fight.

Calzaghe and Froch have made no secret about their dislike with one another. Froch is mostly upset with Calzaghe because he was ignored by him the last two years of Calzaghe’s career, even though Froch had proven himself as an excellent fighter and someone worthy to fight. But instead of facing Froch, Calzaghe opted to fight opponents like Peter Manfredo Jr., Mikkel Kessler, Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. Froch obviously didn’t have the same name value as Kessler, Hopkins and Jones, but you could make an argument that he was a better alternative than Manfredo Jr.

The war of words from Calzaghe will likely cause Froch to fire back a response that Calzaghe might not like. Froch would probably still be interested in meeting Calzaghe in the ring for them to settle their differences. But Calzaghe doesn’t seem remotely interested in staging a comeback. “It’s a big difference between 47-0 and 46-1,” Calzaghe says. “If I did lose, that one loss would destroy everything I’ve done. I’d never forgive myself. Why would I want another fight? It would mainly be for money. That’s the wrong reason. I tried to visualize, if I did lose, who it would affect me. And it would really affect me. I remember my last loss, as an amateur, when I was about 17. It bugged me for months. I used to cry and I was really angry.”

Unless Calzaghe is planning on making a comeback and fighting Froch, he should let Froch be. Carl has so far found success in the Super Six tournament, and by criticizing Froch now at this point, it seems as if Calzaghe might be jealous of what Froch is accomplishing. Calzaghe could have easily stuck around and fought in the Super Six tournament himself if he wanted to. But instead he retired after wins over Hopkins and Jones.

If Calzaghe had taken part in the Super Six tourney and emerged as the winner, it would have done a lot for Calzaghe’s career. The criticism that Calzaghe has faced is mainly about the lack of recognizable high quality opponents that he faced during his career. Calzaghe didn’t face that many big stars during his prime until the last part of his career, but just when he was making strides by upping the quality of his opposition, he suddenly quit just as top fighters like Andre Ward, Andre Dirrell, Lucian Bute, Froch, Allan Green, Arthur Abraham and Chad Dawson were emerging as top fighters.