Carl Froch

Carl Froch
Data
Birth Name	Carl Martin Froch
Fight name	The Cobra
Weight class	Super middleweight
nationality	British
birthday	2nd July 1977
place of birth	Nottingham
style	Left delivery
size	1.87 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	35
Victories	33
Knockout victories	24
Defeats	2

Carl Froch , MBE (born July 2, 1977 in Nottingham ) is a former British professional boxer who was four times world champion in the super middleweight division in his professional career.

Amateur career

Carl Froch started boxing at the age of nine. He was English middleweight champion in 1999 and 2001. At the 33rd European Championships in 2000 in Tampere , Finland , he was eliminated in the quarterfinals on points against the Croatian Stjepan Božić .

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

More international results

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

Professional career

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

In 2008 he was nominated for a fight for the vacant WBC world championship in super middleweight and as an opponent the Russian Denis Inkin was planned, who could already defeat him as an amateur. Inkin canceled the duel twice and finally fought for the WBO title , also laid down by Joe Calzaghe .

The unbeaten Canadian Jean Pascal, who came from Haiti, then moved up. Froch defeated Pascal on December 6, 2008 in the Trent-FM-Arena in Nottingham over twelve rounds by unanimous decision on points. He denied his first title defense in the USA against former middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor . After he himself had to go to the ground in the third round for the first time in his professional career, he also scored a knockdown in the twelfth and final round, from which Taylor could not recover, so that the fight was broken off shortly afterwards in favor of Froch. On the score sheets of two judges, he was already behind after the eleventh round with 102-106, so he could no longer win the fight on points.

Then Froch, like Taylor, was invited to the super middleweight tournament " Super Six World Boxing Classic ", which was conceived and organized by the US television broadcaster Showtime in cooperation with Sauerland Event . 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 undefeated American Andre Dirrell . Dirrell often presented Froch with big problems in this fight with his clear advantages in speed and agility, but after the end of the twelve rounds Froch was awarded a narrow and controversial victory on points.

In his second "Super Six" fight, Froch competed against former WBA world champion Mikkel Kessler from Denmark . The fight took place on April 24, 2010 in the Danish city of Herning . Kessler took advantage of the home advantage, unanimously won the intense duel on points and inflicted his first defeat in his eight-year professional career. In the last preliminary round fight on November 27, 2010 in the Finnish capital Helsinki , Froch won against the German-Armenian Arthur Abraham on points. With this success he finished the group stage behind Andre Ward in second place and again secured the WBC super middleweight title, which had become vacant after Kessler's injury-related withdrawal from the tournament. In the semifinals he prevailed on June 4, 2011 with a points win against the Jamaican Glen Johnson and moved into the final of the "Super Six" tournament. His opponent there became the reigning WBA world champion Andre Ward. Froch lost to the undefeated US-American in the final fight on December 17, 2011 in Atlantic City by a unanimous loss of points (115-113, 115-113 and 118-110) and thus ended the tournament in second place.

In his next fight, however, Froch received another title chance; the long-time IBF title holder Lucian Bute , who had not participated in the "Super Six" tournament, denied a voluntary title defense against him. Froch defeated the previously unbeaten Romanian on May 26, 2012 in Nottingham by technical knockout in the fifth round and won a world title for the third time.

After a knockout win against Yusaf Mack, he played a rematch against Mikkel Kessler in May 2013 and this time won unanimously on points and thus Kessler's WBA title. Since Froch also held the IBF title, his regular WBA title was upgraded to the Super World Title according to the applicable rules.

In November 2013 he won early through tKo in the ninth round against George Groves (19-0). The victory was considered controversial because, in the opinion of many critics, the referee had stopped the fight too early. Froch went down himself in the first round and was behind all three judges at the time of the cancellation. He was also able to win the rematch against Groves on May 31, 2014 through tKo in the eighth round. On February 3, 2015, Froch resigned his IBF title because he did not want to compete against James DeGale, who was designated by the association as a mandatory challenger . Due to continued inactivity, he was also stripped of the WBA world championship belt. On July 14, 2015 Froch announced his retirement from active boxing due to lack of prospects.

Boxing style

Carl Froch is considered an excellent technician in the ring, with an above-average work rate and punch. Due to his good ability to anticipate, he is able to adapt to the boxing styles of his opponents. He is also in a good condition, so that he can fight over the full distance without any problems. His taker qualities are also well above average. As a result, he was often able to turn fights in which he was behind on the point slips towards the end.

Carl Froch's grandparents are called Aleksandra and Wojciech Froch and come from Kraków. They left Poland during World War II .

List of professional fights

33 wins (24 knockout wins), 2 losses (0 knockout defeats), 0 draws
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Froch
2002	March 16	Bethnal Green, London, UK	Michael Pinnock	Victory / TKO 4th round
	10th of May	Bethnal Green, London, UK	Ojay Abrahams	Victory / KO 1st round
	August 23	Bethnal Green, London, UK	Darren Covill	Victory / TKO 1st round
	October 25	Bethnal Green, London, UK	Paul Bonson	Points win / 6 rounds
	21st December	Goresbrook Leisure Center, Dagenham, UK	Mike Duffield	Victory / TKO 1st round
2003	January 28th	Ice Arena, Nottingham, UK	Valery Odin	Victory / TKO 6th round
	5. March	Bethnal Green, London, UK	Varuzhan Davtyan	Victory / TKO 5th round
	April 16	Ice Arena, Nottingham, UK	Michael Monaghan	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	4th of October	Alexandra Palace , Wood Green, UK	Vague Kocharyan	Points win / 8 rounds
	November 28th	Derby Storm Arena, Derby (Derbyshire), UK	Alan Page vacant British Championship (BBBofC)	Victory / TKO 7th round
2004	January 30th	Goresbrook Leisure Center, Dagenham, UK	Dzmitri Adamovich	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	March 12th	Ice Arena, Nottingham, UK	Charles Adamu British Commonwealth Championship	Points win / 12 rounds
	2th of June	Ice Arena, Nottingham, UK	Mark Woolnough British Commonwealth Championship	Victory / TKO 11th round
	September 24th	Ice Arena, Nottingham, UK	Damon Hague British Championship (BBBofC) British Commonwealth Championship	Victory / TKO 1st round
2005	April 21	The Avalon, Hollywood (California), USA	Henry Porras	Victory / TKO 8th round
	July 9	Ice Arena, Nottingham, UK	Matthew Barney British Championship (BBBofC) British Commonwealth Championship	Points win / 12 rounds
	2. December	Ice Arena, Nottingham, UK	Ruben Groenewald British Commonwealth Championship	Victory / TKO 5th round
2006	February 17th	Bethnal Green, London, UK	Dale Westerman British Commonwealth Championship	Victory / TKO 9th round
	May 26	Bethnal Green, London, UK	Brian Magee British Championship (BBBofC) British Commonwealth Championship	Victory / KO 11th round
	November 24th	Ice Arena, Nottingham, UK	Tony Dodson British Championship (BBBofC) British Commonwealth Championship	Victory / KO 3rd round
2007	March 23	Ice Arena, Nottingham, UK	Sergey Tatevosyan	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	November 9th	Ice Arena, Nottingham, UK	Robin Reid British Championship (BBBofC)	Victory / abandonment 5th round
2008	10th of May	Nottingham Arena, Nottingham, UK	Albert Rybacki	Victory / TKO 4th round
	6th of December	Trent FM Arena , Nottingham, UK	Jean Pascal vacant WBC World Championship	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2009	April 25	Foxwoods Resort, Connecticut, USA	Jermain Taylor WBC title defense	Victory / TKO 12th round
	October 17th	Trent FM Arena , Nottingham, UK	Andre Dirrell WBC title defense	Point victory (polyphonic) / 12 rounds
2010	April 24th	MCH Messecenter Herning, Herning, Denmark	Mikkel Kessler WBC title defense	Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
	November 27th	Hartwall Arena , Helsinki, Finland	Arthur Abraham vacant WBC World Championship	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2011	June 4th	Boardwalk Hall , Atlantic City (New Jersey), USA	Glen Johnson (boxer) WBC title defense	Point victory (majority decision) / 12 rounds
	December 17th	Boardwalk Hall , Atlantic City (New Jersey), USA	Andre Ward WBC / WBA Title Association	Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
2012	May 26	Capital FM Arena, Nottingham, UK	Lucian Bute IBF World Championship	Victory / TKO 5th round
	November 17th	Capital FM Arena, Nottingham, UK	Yusuf Mack IBF title defense	Victory / KO 3rd round
2013	25. May	The O2 , London, UK	Mikkel Kessler IBF / WBA title association	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
	November 23	Phones 4u Arena, Manchester, UK	George Groves (boxer) IBF / WBA title defense	Victory / TKO 9th round
2014	31. May	Wembley Stadium (2007) , London, UK	George Groves (boxer) IBF / WBA title defense	Victory / TKO 8th round
(Source: BoxRec database )

Others

Froch is the advertising medium of the online poker platform partypoker and plays on its software under the nickname Carl_Froch .

Web links

• Carl Froch in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://www.boxwelt.com/2015/05/titelstories/carl-froch-alle-titel-futsch/
3. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/boxing/33516495
4. ↑ Boxer Carl Froch reveals rival's taunts about his Polish family . In: The Sun . November 27, 2016 (English, thesun.co.uk [accessed April 21, 2018]).
5. ↑ Carl Froch - Team partypoker at partypoker.com, accessed May 20, 2018

predecessor	Office	successor
Vacant Last title holder: Joe Calzaghe	Super Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) December 6, 2008 - April 24, 2010	Mikkel Kessler
Vacant Last title holder: Mikkel Kessler	World Super Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) November 27, 2010 - December 17, 2012	Andre Ward
Lucian Bute	World Super Middleweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) May 26, 2012 - February 3, 2015	Vacant
Mikkel Kessler	Super Middleweight Boxing World Champion ( WBA ) May 25, 2013 - May 7, 2015	regular WBA title Fyodor Tschudinow