Froch tells Loeffler he'd "tear Golovkin to pieces"

Froch said DeGale would be an ''easy fight'' for him too. No it really wouldn't be. Not at all.

''If he decided to return, he wouldn't face DeGale - who Froch considers to be a very easy opponent to beat.

“I wouldn’t fight James DeGale because it isn’t a big enough fight – I wouldn’t be motivated. Without sounding big headed, I think it’s an easy fight for me. I think I’d beat him easy," Froch told Talk Sport.

“He’s not tall enough or strong enough, especially towards the end of the fight I’d smash him to bits and I think he knows that as well. That’s why he likes to say ‘he’s retired, he needs to stay retired’ and that’s fair enough, I probably do need to stay retired.”

 

DeGale would box Froch's ears off. Yes Froch beat a more prime version of Bute more impressively than DeGale did but styles make fights and I definitely think the occasion and fighting away from home in front of such a hostile crowd got to Bute in that one. Bute is past his best now but he's still a world class operator and he performed really well against DeGale. That was a better Bute than the confidence ravaged one who lost against Pascal so DeGale deserves a lot of credit for the win and for doing it away from home. The Bute we saw the other night would've beaten Abraham and Jack IMO and that's a Bute who has only seen 3.5 rounds of action in almost 2 years and was 2-2 in his last 4 fights. He also deserves a lot of credit for his performance on Saturday night he fought with great hunger and desire and much to my surprise he managed to regain some of his self-confidence.

 

The reason DeGale struggled against Bute is because Bute is and always has been a really talented fighter whose problems have always been of the mental variety rather than physical. All this nonsense of him having a glass chin is ridiculous too. Likewise DeGale is and always has been a really talented fighter too.