Froch vs. Golovkin

By Scott Gilfoid: Well, boxing fans should finally discover this week if former IBF/WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) will decide on facing the talented IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) this year or if Froch will instead choose to take the safe route and retire from the sport.

Froch, 37, said recently that he’ll be making his decision on the Golovkin/retirement question this week. He wants to get the decision over with. What is even more confusing is that Froch recently added IBF 168lb champion James DeGale into the equation, saying that he could wind up facing him.

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By Allan Fox: In one of the rare occasions where IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) is campaigning for a big money fight, Golovkin asked his fans on Twitter whether they would like to see him fight former IBF/WBA 168lb champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) at the 80,000 seat Wembley Stadium in London, UK.

Thus far, the answer has been in the affirmative by most of the fans that have responded to Golovkin’s question.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Despite the lure of huge money and tons of potential respect from boxing fans, former IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) hasn’t been able to make a decision whether to fight unbeaten IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) in a fight that would take place at the UK.

Froch isn’t sure whether he should retire and rest on his laurels from wins over guys like Mikkel Kessler, Lucian Bute and George Groves, or if he should take a risk and fight someone that is actually a top level fighter and still in his prime in facing Golovkin.

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By Scott Gilfoid: A still very conflicted Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) is at it again with his doubtful talk about how he’d beat WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) if they’d fight, but then in the same sentence, yapping about how might retire instead of taking the fight.

Froch, 37, says he’s not sure if he wants to fight on or retire, but he still feels he’d whip Golovkin if he decided to honor him with a fight. I smell fear. I think Froch hasn’t made up his mind because the picture in his mind of all the things that can go wrong in a fight against Golovkin.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Barry Hearn, the chairman for Matchroom Sport, is excited at the prospects of a fight between his fighter former IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch and unbeaten middleweight Gennady Golovkin potentially taking place this year.

Froch still hasn’t made up his mind yet, and he says he’ll be making a decision in the first week of June. But Hearn, the father of promoter Eddie Hearn, thinks the Froch vs. Golovkin fight is big enough to fill the 80,000 seat Wembley Stadium in London, UK.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Despite all the fan interest in a fight between British super middleweight star Carl Froch and unbeaten IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin about a potential fight between them, Froch still hasn’t decided whether to fight on with his career by taking the Golovkin match-up, which would make him tons of money, or simply retire from the sport.

The soon to be 38-year-old Froch says he’ll make a decision about his career in the first week of June. It’s unclear what’s so magical about waiting until that time, but that’s what Froch is saying.

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By Robbie Bannatyne: “If I fight Golovkin, I will back him up, take what he’s got and beat him up.”

It takes a brave man to talk about Gennady Golovkin in such bold tones. But Carl Froch is among the bravest men in boxing. But still, will he give Golovkin his golden ticket to greatness? Fight fans have been daring to dream ever since Froch’s bold predictions made it to print this week.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Well, it looks like former IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch has finally taken interest in facing WBA 160lb champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) in what would be a very, very risky fight for the 37-year-old Froch.

According to Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn, he’s started negotiations with Golovkin’s management for a fight between them. Hearn believes it’s a fight that they could stage at Wembley Stadium in London, UK and fill the thing like they did with Froch’s fight against domestic fighter George Groves.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Last night, Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya sent out a tweet to Carl Froch among others saying that he’s spotted flaws in the highly popular knockout artist Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs) that he thinks Froch can take advantage of if he faces him.

What’s interesting about this is that Froch chose to retweet De La Hoya’s comment on Golovkin. Now why would Froch make a move like this?

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