Exclusive with Carl Froch: 'Conor McGregor should keep his mouth shut - he does not have a clue'
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In an exclusive interview with Casino Alpha, former super-middleweight world champion Carl Froch delivers a brutally honest assessment of modern boxing. From slamming Jake Paul’s latest opponent to reigniting his feud with Conor McGregor, “The Cobra” pulls no punches. Froch critiques promoters like Eddie Hearn, questions crossover fights, and reflects on what’s really gone wrong with the sport he once ruled.
What do you make of the footage of Jake Paul’s opponent?
CF: “The opponent Jake Paul picked looks like a bog-standard fighter who has absolutely no hope of becoming world champion. You could see from the footage that’s come out, it’s very, very low level professional boxing. He’s ranked outside the top 250 in the world, so it’s probably the right fight for Jake Paul – an opponent who is there to be beaten. From what I’ve seen, it’s a fight for Jake Paul to look good in, but if he loses, he’s bang in trouble. If he loses to this guy, he needs to retire and forget about professional boxing.
CF: The opponent looked useless, but as bad as he looked, at least Jake is fighting a pro fighter. To give him some credit, he’s actually picked a pro fighter albeit one ranked outside the top 250, I didn’t even know there were that many cruiserweights. When you get outside the top guys, they’re all bog-standard basic fighters. If they’ve been active for a few years and at least not in the top 50, you know they’re not very good. I don’t why his fans would be interested in watching him fight somebody who’s not very good. If he makes hard work of him then he should retire.”
What happened after JP called you out?
CF: “He’s a sh*thouse, he can’t fight for toffee, and he would not come anywhere near me, even though I’m ten years retired. That’s all you need to know about Jake Paul, he called me out, but he won’t take on a guy who has been retired for ten years. I could come back, not even put myself through a training camp, and it would be such an easy night’s work. He’s a performing clown, hopefully he will go away because boxing fans are not taking him seriously. The reason this isn’t on pay-per-view is because people are no longer prepared to pay for this rubbish.”
Eddie Hearn touted the idea of JP v Wayne Rooney, is that a bigger spectacle?
CF: “I don’t know why Eddie Hearn is talking about Jake Paul versus Wayne Rooney, Rooney’s a football manager. I don’t like the way some boxing promoters are going down the route of crossover fights because a former football player versus a YouTuber is a load of rubbish, and I don’t get it. I don’t get why a proper promoter is talking up a match between Wayne Rooney and Jake Paul. But does that tell us something about the state of boxing at the minute? Would Wayne Rooney v Jake Paul be the biggest fight that Eddie Hearn can make at the minute? Because I’m struggling to see what big fights he has in the works other than Benn-Eubank and the problem with that one is, Benn’s not licensed to fight in this country.
It’s all getting a bit silly to me because I grew up watching proper fighters fighting everybody. Eddie’s put AJ forward for Ngannou and he’s putting AJ forward for anything at the minute. I don’t know why he doesn’t fight Wilder though, what happened to that fight? Let’s talk more about AJ-Wilder because chucking him in with Ngannou makes no sense to me at all.”
What was your online exchange with Conor McGregor all about?
CF: “I saw that little rat Conor McGregor commenting on David Haye’s post, giving his opinion on boxing. I just said, “what do you know about boxing?”. I saw McGregor piping up like he was involved in the boxing conversation. It’s like me giving my opinion on mixed martial arts. I can’t comment on MMA because I don’t know anything about it in the same way Conor McGregor should keep his mouth shut about boxing because he hasn’t got a clue, and that was evident when he fought Mayweather.”
Will we ever see him fight again?
CF: “I no longer know what his motivation is for fighting; he’s had a couple of bad pastings, and he’s not short of a few quid. In fairness, he’s earned every penny, and he was a phenomenal fighter, and you have to admire him for that. But I’m not sure why he wants the Michael Chandler fight or what his motivation is. He’s better off hanging around the Misfits and YouTubers and getting involved in a celebrity fight because he’s a massive name. But forget about a crossover fight with Jake Paul; he’d get absolutely slaughtered.”
