{"id":792404,"date":"2026-02-27T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/792404\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:15:12","slug":"promoter-has-had-talks-with-carl-froch-on-comeback-theres-an-open-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/792404\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoter has had talks with Carl Froch on comeback: &#8220;There&#8217;s an open door&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time super-middleweight world champion Carl Froch has continuously flirted with a return to the fight game since his retirement in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Froch hung up the gloves after a legendary knockout of George Groves at Wembley Stadium settled their fierce rivalry and allowed him to walk away from boxing off the back of a phenomenal win.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since, Froch has toyed with the idea of returning to professional boxing, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/joe-calzaghe-offer-reported\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling out fellow super-middleweight and British boxing legend Joe Calzaghe<\/a> to settle a long-running debate on who would come out on top. He has also expressed an interest in facing Jake Paul.<\/p>\n<p>There could now be an opportunity for the Nottingham-born fan-favourite to make a move into the bare knuckle scene.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xAmzLI1TMKg?si=37gpF00NMzEh0qBZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boxing Social<\/a>, BKB CEO David Tetreault unveiled that he has held talks with Froch regarding a move into bare knuckle boxing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have had conversations with Carl, we have. Carl was at one of our events just this past summer and there is an open door there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Should Froch opt to compete over at BKB, the reigning middleweight and super-middleweight BKB champion, and thus assumed target, is Colorado-based Lorawnt T Nelson, who boasted a 5-4 pro boxing record before taking off the gloves.<\/p>\n<p>Although, if Froch can no longer make 168lbs, he may instead eye up a fight with current BKB light-heavyweight ruler, Nicholas \u2018Cub\u2019 Hawkins, who has won by stoppage in eight of his nine bare knuckle victories. <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/uk-champion-to-return-after-four-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The promotion has recently welcomed former world champions in Yuriorkis Gamboa and Lee Selby.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/carl-froch-accepts-john-fury-36752940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another option for Froch is to glove up and settle a feud with John Fury, father of two-time heavyweight champion, Tyson.<\/a> The pair have been going back and forth online after Fury looked to confront the younger man at a recent press conference. Both have, perhaps surprisingly, said they may be interested in making it happen under the Misfits banner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time super-middleweight world champion Carl Froch has continuously flirted with a return to the fight game since his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-792404","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\/116142311140913005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792404","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=792404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}