Carl Froch is an English professional boxer who was rated best in super middleweight. Froch was born on July 2nd of 1977 in Nottingham, England. He was named as a two-time and prevailing WBC super middleweight champ. He was the former title holder of the Super Middleweight Champion Title of the Commonwealth, British, and English titles.
At the age of nine, Carl Froch already started playing boxing at their home in Nottingham, England. During his amateur boxing career, he had acquired in 1999 and in 2001 two ABA middleweight titles. He joined a boxing fight in Phoenix ABC located in Gedling that is near Nottingham. He also earned a bronze medal in the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships. Carl Froch amateur career also experienced some loss. One of his losses during his amateur career was with Denis Inkin.
March of 2002 he moved up into professional in boxing. During his professional boxing career, Carl Froch earned only 1 defeat of his 28 professional bouts. He won 20 of those fights with a knockout while the last 7 were decision victories.
Barry Hearn managed Carl Froch while Robert McCraken trained the English boxer.
During 2004, Forch gained the British and as well as the Commonwealth Championship titles. He has then defended his British and Commonwealth titles from fighters Tony Dodson, Brian Magee, Damon Hague, Matthew Barney, Dale Westernman, and Ruben Groenwald.
He fought and won an Armenian slugger Sergey Tatevosyan on November 9th of 2007 and likewise defeated a former world champion in boxing Robin Reid. After his defeat, Reid announced his retirement from the boxing industry.
Carl Froch was also one of those distinct boxers who participated during the Super Six World Boxing Classic for Super Middleweight Tournament that was facilitated by “Showtime“. Super Six World Boxing Classic Tournament features six boxers which includes Mikkel Kessler, Andre Dirrell, Arthur Abraham, Andrew Ward, Jermain Taylor, and Carl Froch.
Froch’s first opponent in the tournament was Andre Dirrell from which Froch’s WBC title going to be fought. Despite some speculations about the fight, Froch was able to defend and maintain his WBC title.
Mikkel Kessler was Froch second opponent. Mikkel Kessler had previously lost his WBA super middleweight championship title to Andrew Ward. This time, Froch lost the bout and lost his WBA title to Mikkel Kessler via unanimous decision.
Arthur Abraham was Froch next opponent. Before their match, Mikkel Kessler had announced to retire from the tournament due to an eye injury; this made a WBC title vacant from which Abraham and Froch are going to battle with. Determined to regain his WBC title, Froch fought his best during their fight and won via unanimous decision.
For the semi-final stage of the tournament, Froch fought over Glen Johnson who was a veteran boxer who had defeated the world class boxer Roy Jones Jr. Despite an undeniably good fight from both fighters, Froch dominated the match and won over Johnson. This makes Froch to advance for the last and final stage of the tournament. For the finals of the Super Six Boxing Tournament, Carl Froch will battle against Andre Ward who is an Olympic Gold Medalist.
