CARL FROCH insisted he had the beating of Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin during his career.
The former super-middleweight world champion retired in 2014 after knocking out rival George Groves for a second time, and has since rejected comeback fights.
Carl Froch insisted he had the beating on Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin during his careerCredit: Getty Images – Getty
Froch famously tweeted he was “too big & too strong for GGG” – and reckons it’s the same for four-division champion Canelo, who recently dethroned light-heavyweight king Sergey Kovalev.
He said on his podcast: “Too big, too strong. Jokes aside, when I watched Canelo fight Kovalev I just wasn’t impressed.
“I thought it was close, but I thought he was losing. At that weight he’s slower. He reminded me of Arthur Abraham when I fought Abraham.
“I just kept him long with a jab, met him with combinations, and absolutely hammered him for 12 rounds. It was a flawless victory.
“I feel like I would have been able to do that to Canelo when he fought Canelo, that version of Canelo.”
Before Froch beat Groves in their Wembley rematch, the heavy puncher admitted he would “swerve Golovkin like the plague”.
But he reversed that statement, predicting he would have been “too much” for ex-unified middleweight champion GGG.
Froch said: “I’d have been too much for him. I met him and he’s 5ft 9in or 5ft 10in.
“When I meet someone and shaking their hand, and looking in their eyes.
“I might be wrong, but me as a fighter and the warrior I was when I was fighting,
“I was shaping and sizing him up, thinking, ‘If I ever fight you, no problem, end of the jab, walk you into some shots, I’d be too much for you.’
“He went 11 rounds with Martin Murray. At that sort of level, you’re not going to give me a problem.”
Froch was not impressed with Canelo’s win against Sergey Kovalev for the WBO light-heavyweight titleCredit: Getty Images – Getty
Froch once said he would ‘swerve Golovkin like the plague’Credit: AP:Associated Press
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
