All The Smoke Fight<\/a>, Froch says he lands on either of the two for the number one spot, praising the Welshman despite their back-and-forths over the years.<\/p>\n\u201cHe\u2019s a great fighter. I give him credit. If you say who\u2019s the top three fighters from Britain, I\u2019d say Lennox Lewis and Joe Calzaghe, and you could say Calzaghe takes the first place.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could say Lewis takes the number one spot. But Lewis got done by Hasim Rahman and Oliver McCall. Calzaghe never got beat, although he was in a close fight with Robin Reid. Constructive criticism, but I always give him his flowers. I always say top fighter, unbeaten in 46 fights.\u201d<\/p>\n
Froch then predicted how he would have fared against Calzaghe had the rivalry ever made it through the ropes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I had boxed him, he\u2019d have probably beat me on points unless I knocked him out. I\u2019d have to knock him out to win cause he\u2019s got a high work-rate, tough and super-fit.\u201d<\/p>\n
It remains one of British boxing\u2019s great \u2018what if\u2019 match-ups. By the time Froch arrived at the elite level of the super-middleweight division, Calzaghe\u2019s run there was ending, and he would move up to light heavyweight to close out his career with victories over Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Froch believes the question of the best British fighter in history can be whittled down to just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-681719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}