{"id":234316,"date":"2025-07-03T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234316\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:14:09","slug":"carl-froch-names-the-only-fighter-he-has-ever-genuinely-hated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234316\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch Names The Only Fighter He Has Ever ‘Genuinely Hated’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carl Froch<\/a> has never held back with his views about his fellow fighters, past and present.<\/p>\n

The former super-middleweight champion has often had beef with everyone from Anthony Joshua to Jake Paul, and has long had a back-and-forth with Joe Calzaghe about who would have won had the two ever met in the ring.<\/a><\/p>\n

He only lost twice in the ring across a hugely successful career, once to Andre Ward, and once to Mikkel Kessler, which he later avenged. Yet neither of those men did he truly hate.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sporting Talk,<\/a> Froch was asked who that was and spoke of the consequences of such heated emotions when they fought.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe guy I really didn\u2019t like, and everyone is gonna know, was George Groves in the first fight. I just couldn\u2019t stand him. I genuinely f*****g hated him, really bad, to my soul, and that\u2019s why I struggled so much in the first fight, the game plan went out of the window and I just tried to render him unconscious like I did in the rematch. And when you\u2019re trying to knock someone hold out, you load up, you\u2019re just that split second behind, you\u2019re looking at them and you\u2019re trying to force it. You\u2019re not boxing, it\u2019s the art of pugilism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Although Froch got the stoppage win in that fight, most fans thought it came too early. The rematch was much more conclusive as the Nottingham man laid Groves out cold in the eighth round at Wembley Stadium to end his career as world champion.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Froch has never held back with his views about his fellow fighters, past and present. The former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-234316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114788543333986624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}