Carl Froch: Only Lennox Lewis rivals me as best British boxer

rivals me?lmao lewis is x 4 better

 

No, not a top 10 all time British boxer for me, not close to Lennox or Calzaghe either. Froch has never been no1 in his division either, so I suppose he's touching around the Eubank, Watson and Benn level legacy wise, who both never managed that.

 

What sort of time limit is he putting on it?

If we go back far enough, we might be able to findd a greater boxer out of Nottingham.

 

and that's the problem with Achievement based rankings, Media Hype & BULL****!

and I love Froch, but he's not even the best from his home town/area nevermind 150 years of some truly great British fighters.

 

My God, what a swell-headed, delusional ******* this Froch is. Lewis towered over him both literally and figuratively as a fighter...Clazaghe would have totally outclassed him...Buchanan was his superior...****, he's a mediocrity compared to the fighters I've listed.

 

I wouldn't even put him in the same class as Owen Moran.

 

Froch is a credit to his sport.

He is in it to take on the other top fighters of his era.

The limiting factor on his career is likely to be the fact that he shared an era with Andre Ward.

 

I really do like Froch, I think he has a lot of game. But he's just slightly better than David Haye.....

 

I loved Eubank, Benn and Watson but those guys were not facing off against the elite of their division in back to back fights. Eubanks record against those rated in the top 2 in the world was like 0-0-0.

 

I'm with ya. And there were plenty back in the day who thought Moran was the greatest Britain ever produced.

 

He's selling PPV and getting people tuned into boxing, that matters along side what you can produce in terms of skill..
Not since Hatton and after Haye ousted Sky PPV have people been satisfied with paying box office.
He will become more celebrated than Lewis in time. Lewis PPV's stunk at the end of the day.

 

It's a bit embarrassing how little some fighters know about the history of their sport?? Haha me an Lennox Lewis haha what the hell!!?? This is clearly embarrassing car crash statement - eeerrmm??? Jimmy Wilde? Ted Kid Lewis? Jack Kid Berg? Howard Winstone? Bob Fitzsimmons? Randolph Turpin? Benny Lynch? Tom Sayers? Tommy Farr? Ken Buchanan? Jim Driscoll? Freddie Welsh? Even the likes of Freddie Mills? Benn/Eubanks/Watson were better in my view? Herol Graham and Kirkland Laing as talents were far beyond Froch for me?

 

Moran was unreal, going Stateside and knocking out Battling Nelson!

Froch has no wins that compare to Benn's over Gerald McClellan or Iran Barkley. Or Eubank's over Michael Watson and Graciano Rocchi (both superior to Mikkel), for that matter. Doug DeWitt was more proven than Jermain Taylor and Andre Dirrell, going 50/50 with Tommy Hearns at his peak. I'd say Lindell Holmes was more skilled and a harder hitter than Jermain.

And Nigel Benn as an opponent for Eubank in 1990 was streets more dangerous than Pascal, Abraham (faded, blown-up) or Johnson (faded, boiled-down), and as an opponent for Eubank in '93 Benn was just as awkward as Ward defensively in my opinion (look what hell accomplished fighters like McClellan and Collins had trying to land on that version of Benn).

 

Herol Graham - completely different league to Froch. Imagine Froch in with McCallum and Kalambay! It would be embarassing! They'd make Carl look a drunken ******. (They'd give Ward a lesson!). Graham beat them both, in my view, from '89 to '92 - 6-7+ years past his physical peak.