Carl Froch

Carl Froch ( born July 2, 1977 in Nottingham ) is a British professional boxer and current world champion of the IBF and the WBA super world champion at super middleweight. He is also a former two-time world champion of the WBC.

Amateur career

Carl Froch began boxing at the age of nine years. He was 1999 and 2001 English middleweight champion. At the 33rd European Championships in Tampere, Finland in 2000, he retired from the quarter-finals on points against the Croats Stjepan Bozic.

In 2001 he participated in the middleweight division also participates in the 11th World Championships in Belfast, where he was able to win the bronze medal. He defeated while the bronze medalist of the Olympic Games of 2000, the Azerbaijani Wugar Alakparow 21:12, the Greek Olympian Antonio Giannoulas 27:14 and the Czechs Ladislav Kutil 28:14, before the eventual champion Andrei Gogolev was defeated in the semifinals 16:28. He thus also became the first British medalist in amateur world championships.

Other international results

  • Multi Nations Tournament 1999: 3rd place at middleweight
  • Multi Nations Tournament 2000: 3rd place at middleweight
  • 28 Chemistry Cup 2000: 2nd place at middleweight
  • 17 Feliks tribe Memorial 2000: 3rd place at middleweight
  • 21 Copenhagen Cup 2000: 1st place in the middleweight division

Professional career

His first professional fight Carl Froch denied on March 16, 2002 in London. In 2004 he won the British and Commonwealth Super Middleweight Championship and defended the title until 2007 on several occasions, including against Brian Magee and former WBC champion Robin Reid.

In 2008 he was nominated for a fight for the vacant WBC World Championship at super middleweight and as an opponent of Russian Denis Inkin was planned, which could already beat him as an amateur. Inkin said the duel but twice now and finally fought for, also laid down by Joe Calzaghe, the WBO title.

Then, moved by a native of Haiti unbeaten Canadian Jean Pascal. Froch beat Pascal on December 6, 2008 at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham over twelve rounds by unanimous decision. His first title defense, he played in the United States against the former middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor. After he had in the third round to the ground for the first time in his pro career himself, he also scored in the twelfth and final round of a precipitate from which Taylor could not recover, so the fight was stopped shortly afterwards in favor Frochs. To the point labels of two judges he was by the eleventh round already with 102-106 back so that he could no longer win the fight on points.

Subsequently, Froch, as well as Taylor, designed to by the U.S. television channel Showtime in co-operation with Sauerland Event and invited hosted Super Middleweight Tournament " Super Six World Boxing Classic". As part of the first group stage of this tournament, he defended the WBC title on October 17, 2009 in his hometown of Nottingham against the previously unbeaten American Andre Dirrell. Dirrell put Froch in this fight with his significant advantages in speed and agility often a major problem, but Froch received after the end of twelve rounds only a scarce and controversial points victory awarded.

In his second " Super Six " fight Froch ran against former WBA champion Mikkel Kessler from Denmark. The fight took place in the Danish town of Herning on April 24, 2010. Kessler used the home advantage, the active conduct of the duel won by unanimous decision and added Froch his first defeat in his eight-year professional career. In the last preliminary round fight on November 27, 2010 in Helsinki, Finland Froch won superior to the German - Armenian Arthur Abraham on points. Thanks to this success, he finished the group stage behind Andre Ward in second place and secured again the, according to Kessler's injury -related withdrawal from the tournament that has become vacant WBC super middleweight title. In the semifinals, he sat 4 June 2011 by a point win against Jamaican Glen Johnson through and moved into the final of the " Super Six " tournament. His opponent there was the reigning WBA champion Andre Ward. Froch lost to the unbeaten Americans in the final bout on 17 December 2011 in Atlantic City by a unanimous points defeat ( 115-113, 115-113 and 118-110 ) and finished the tournament thus in second place.

Already in his next fight but Froch won a new title chance: the longtime IBF titlist Lucian Bute, who had not participated in the " Super Six " tournament, denied a voluntary defense against him. Froch defeated the previously unbeaten Romanians on 26 May 2012 in Nottingham technical knockout in the fifth round and thus won for the third time a world title.

After a knockout win against Yusaf Mack, he denied in May 2013 a rematch against Mikkel Kessler and won this time by unanimous decision and thus Kessler's WBA title. Since Froch holds the IBF title, his regular WBA title was upgraded according to applicable regulations for Super World Title.

In November 2013 he won early by t.K.o. against George Groves ( 19-0 ).

List of professional bouts

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