{"id":286527,"date":"2025-11-27T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286527\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:55:10","slug":"carl-froch-says-joe-calzaghe-shouldnt-have-undefeated-record-he-deserved-to-lose-that-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286527\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch says Joe Calzaghe shouldn’t have undefeated record: “He deserved to lose that fight”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Calzaghe retired with an undefeated record of 46-0, but super-middleweight rival Carl Froch believes that the \u2018Pride of Wales\u2019 had a lucky escape in one of his victories.<\/p>\n

The Newbridge-born southpaw famously made 21 defences of the WBO super-middleweight world title during his career<\/a>, overcoming names such as Chris Eubank<\/a>, Mikkel Kessler, Bernard Hopkins<\/a> and Roy Jones Jr<\/a>\u2013 establishing himself as one of the greatest British fighters of all time.<\/p>\n

However, despite numerous callouts from fellow British super-middleweight fan-favourite Carl Froch, Calzaghe never collided with \u2018The Cobra\u2019 \u2013 a fight which some believe could have cost him his unbeaten run.<\/p>\n

Whilst Froch believes the Welshman was afraid to face him, Calzaghe maintains that showdowns with Kessler, Hopkins and Jones were bigger opportunities<\/a> and that Froch had not earned his shot at that point in time.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Ring<\/a>, Froch stated his belief that Calzaghe was fortunate to retire with his undefeated record, recalling the time he was tasked with former WBC super-middleweight world champion Robin Reid in 1999.<\/p>\n

\u201cRobin Reid could really bang, and in my opinion, he deserved the win over Joe Calzaghe in their fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calzaghe claimed a split-decision victory over Reid in what was a third successful defence of the WBO strap and one of just two disputable results in his career, the other being another split-decision win against Hopkins nine years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Calzaghe retired with an undefeated record of 46-0, but super-middleweight rival Carl Froch believes that the \u2018Pride…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-286527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286527","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=286527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}