JOE CALAZAGHE laughed off Carl Froch’s call for him to come out of retirement and fight him and insisted he would have been “too fast and too sharp” for his British rival back in the day.
Froch, 42, who retied in 2014 after knocking out George Groves in their rematch, revealed he would make a comeback to face 48-year-old Calzaghe.
Joe Calzaghe laughed off Carl Froch’s call for him to come out of retirement and fight him
Froch revealed he could make a comeback to fight Calzaghe
But the Welshman, who walked away from the ring in 2008 with an unblemished 46-0 record after beating legend Roy Jones Jr, is happy in retirement and rests easy as he insists the Cobra would have been no match for him during his prime.
He told talkSPORT: “It’s mad, I’m still living in his head after all these years. I’ve done everything you can achieve in boxing.
“I know what would have happened and I don’t take much notice of what he says. I’m 48 and I’ve been retired 10 years, I’m happy with my career.
“When I was at my peak I’d have been too fast and too sharp for him. I think I’d have beaten any super-middleweight, maybe not Roy Jones Jr at his peak.”
Calzaghe retired before Froch could challenge the two-weight champion, but promoter Eddie Hearn has plans to pit the two together in a virtual press conference for fights that never happened.
It led to Froch calling for his rival to come out of retirement and fight him for real.
But Calzaghe revealed his 2007 win against Mikkel Kessler was the beginning of the end for his career, despite moving up to light-heavyweight in 2008 for his final two fights – against Bernard Hopkins and Jones.
He said: “After the fight with Mikkel Kessler I knew that was the end.
“I spoke to my dad and said I wanted to fight Bernard Hopkins, who was Ring Magazine champion, to leave a legacy.
“What mattered wasn’t someone piping up, there are always contenders, it was going to America and I did that.”
Former super-middleweight world champion Froch retired with a 33-2 record, following defeats to Kessler and Andre Ward.
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Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
