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Froch Believes Conor Benn Needs To Take His Time, Stay Away From Gervonta Davis For Now

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Former super middleweight champion Carl Froch believes Conor Benn needs to take his time and stay away from fights with top-level opponents like Gervonta Davis.

Benn had recently called for a fight with Davis. And Benn’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, is very interested in such a fight.

At the moment, Benn competes in the welterweight division – although he hasn’t made the division limit since April of 2022. Benn’s last two bouts took place around junior middleweight.

Gervonta Davis has competed in four weight divisions, where he captured full or secondary titles. Davis currently competes at lightweight, but he’s fought as high as junior welterweight – where he knocked out Mario Barrios several years ago.

According to Hearn, a fight between Benn and Davis would have to take place at the welterweight limit of 147-pounds.

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“I’m interested in the Gervonta Davis fight. He’s the road killer from Baltimore and half of his friends are either dead or in prison. He’s one tough motherf—–, like a real hard man and he’s a weight division below Conor Benn. But I don’t think that’s a fight Conor Benn should be calling out. I just think Conor just needs to take his time a little bit.,” Froch said to Instant Casino.

“I know he’s desperate to fight and he wants to become a world champion, but you can’t jump in with these guys. You need a stepping stone. Conor Benn, has done what he’s done but he’s had an almost a two year break and now he’s calling out road killers. He can’t just be jumping in with these guys. He’s not ready. He needs to just build himself back up and get his license back first obviously.”

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Carl Froch Names The 2023 Fighter of the Year: “He Is Levels Above”

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Carl Froch

Three-time super-middleweight champion Carl Froch has named his 2023 Fighter of the Year after a standout twelve months for boxing that has left most fans picking between three fighters for the award.

Naoya Inoue became just the second man to claim an undisputed title in two different weight-divisions since the dawn of the four-belt era after he knocked out Marlon Tapales in the tenth-round of their Boxing Day showdown.

This came just five months after his super-bantamweight debut, where he stopped the poster boy of the division Stephen Fulton in one of the performances of the year.

Meanwhile, Devin Haney defeated pound-for-pound great Vasily Lomachenko by decision back in April in the second defence of his own undisputed title. Then, ‘The Dream’ vacated his belts to step up to super-lightweight, where he whitewashed Regis Prograis to claim the WBC 140lbs title.

However, in an interview with TalkSport, Froch picked Terence Crawford for the award, after ‘Bud’ became the first four-belt welterweight champion in a beatdown of long-term rival Errol Spence Jr in his lone contest of 2023.

Many fans claim that Crawford’s inactivity could cost him in his bid to win the award, but the unbeaten 36-year-old has responded to that argument on social media.

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Carl Froch Compares Fighter To Floyd Mayweather And Roy Jones: “He’s Gonna Dominate”

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Carl Froch has high praise for one fighter coming off a statement victory.

Now a Hall of Famer and pundit, Froch held multiple super-middleweight world titles during his fighting career. He’s well-placed then to identify the most-talented in the sport.

He reserves a place there for Devin Haney, who this weekend became a two-weight world champion with a landslide victory over Regis Prograis.

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Haney won the WBC Super-Lightweight World title in San Francisco, dropping and hurting the tough Prograis on his way to a unanimous decision win.

Speaking on Froch on Fighting, ‘The Cobra’ said Haney could be the next Floyd Mayweather.

Froch also found some comparisons with the great Roy Jones Jr, who joins Mayweather on the list of the best fighters to ever lace up the gloves.

Haney now has a mandatory challenger in Sandor Martin, but will be looking for big fights against Ryan Garcia and fellow-champion Teofimo Lopez.

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Joshua warned over fight against Wilder

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Deontay Wilder

Carl Froch has predicted Deontay Wilder will need less than three minutes to KO Anthony Joshua.

Joshua and Wilder are on a collision course for a long-awaited heavyweight showdown next year – assuming they can navigate past their respective opponents later this month. Joshua will take on Otto Wallin while Wilder will meet Joseph Parker in Saudi Arabia two days before Christmas.

But Froch has dismissed his fellow Brit’s chances of ultimately beating Wilder should they meet. ” Deontay Wilder knocks him spark out in one round, I’ve always said that and I still think it is true,” he said on the In The Zone podcast. “Wilder would come out in the first round looking for AJ, who is tentative at the best of times, but he is now afraid of his own shadow these days. I think Wilder catches him with a bomb that lands on his chin and he goes down and just does not get up.

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“Whether he can get up or not, he won’t want to. That’s the reason these two aren’t fighting now, because if that happens his career is over and the curtain comes down for good. However, if he gets his head right, he can definitely win that fight!”

Froch has been publicly critical of Joshua after he split from trainer Rob McCracken who previously coached Froch to become world champion. Joshua is now trained by Derrick James in Dallas but is working with Tyson Fury’s former trainer Ben Davison for his next outing.

And Froch added: “He’s with Ben Davison now as his trainer, Rob McCracken should be his trainer because he would get his head right for that fight, but the respect has gone now so they will never get back together again.

“The old AJ that brawled with Dillian Whyte, knocked out Wladimir Klitschko after getting knocked down and busted up Carlos Takam after getting his nose butted can definitely win that fight and do a job there because Deontay Wilder and AJ has got the Olympic pedigree so he can go and outbox him.”

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