{"id":231839,"date":"2025-10-29T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231839\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:11:07","slug":"george-groves-says-he-will-come-out-of-retirement-for-one-man-absolutely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231839\/","title":{"rendered":"George Groves Says He Will Come Out Of Retirement For One Man: “Absolutely”"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Groves<\/a> has been retired since 2018, but has suggested that one man would get him back in the ring.<\/p>\n

Groves is a British super middleweight great who has been involved in one of the best rivalries of the last 20 years.<\/p>\n

After impressing in his way up through the ranks, he forced a fight with then world champion Carl Froch back in 2013. Froch underestimated his opponent and was put down early by the London man, but rallied to win by controversial stoppage.<\/p>\n

The rematch came in front of 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium in May 2014 and was ended more conclusively with an eighth round KO for \u2018The Cobra.\u2019<\/p>\n

Groves fought on and beat the likes of Martin Murray, became WBA world champion after his win over Fedor Chudinov and also bested James Cox and Chris Eubank Jr<\/a>, before losing to Callum Smith in the final of the World Boxing Super Series in 2018 after suffering from a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

He walked away from the sport after that loss, though one standout in his career always remained his victory over his long-time amateur and professional rival James DeGale in 2011.<\/p>\n

Speaking to iFL TV<\/a>, Groves was asked if he would come out of retirement to fight DeGale again, this time in the bare-knuckle arena, and didn\u2019t hesitate to answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, absolutely, Yeah. I\u2019m intrigued by it, and I like anything that has a bit of showmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeGale is a former world champion boxer who retired after losing to Chris Eubank in 2019, but made his bare-knuckle debut in July 2025 with a win over Australian Matt Floyd.<\/a> Whether or not he continues to compete in the promotion remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Groves has been retired since 2018, but has suggested that one man would get him back in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-231839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}