{"id":641368,"date":"2026-06-16T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641368\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:34:10","slug":"carl-froch-says-john-fury-priced-himself-out-of-proposed-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641368\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch Says John Fury Priced Himself Out Of Proposed Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxing247.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add East Side Boxing as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770669047_552_google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEV0p2ZUdsdVp6STBOeTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow East Side Boxing on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Froch\u2019s latest comments came as he revisited his long-running war of words with John Fury, the 61-year-old father of former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. What began as social media exchanges eventually escalated into discussions about a potential bout, with Froch now claiming Fury priced himself out of the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just about to give that bag an absolute pasting, and Big John Fury, the fighting man, has been piping up, saying he wants two and a half million quid. Can you make this make sense?\u201d Froch said on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/frochonfighting\/status\/2065464677597847969\" rel=\"nofollow\">Froch on Fighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne minute he wants to give the money to charity. He doesn\u2019t want the money, he\u2019s a humble man, he doesn\u2019t need money in life, he lives a simple life. Give it to charity, he said. But now he wants \u00a32.5 million. He\u2019s priced himself out. The big gobsh**e.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Froch suggested serious negotiations had taken place before the talks fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I\u2019m talking about it is I don\u2019t want him popping up on my timeline talking blocks, bringing my name up. He called it on, I\u2019ve said yeah, go on then let\u2019s fight, wasted a load of f**** time negotiating. DAZN offered him the money, and he\u2019s bottled it, and he goes round calling everybody else a shhouse. He\u2019s going to fight f**** no one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the proposed clash with Fury now appears unlikely, Froch\u2019s willingness to continue discussing comeback opponents indicates retirement has not completely closed the chapter on his fighting career.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old has also traded verbal jabs with former UFC fighter Darren Till in recent months. While Froch has repeatedly insisted he has nothing left to prove following his Hall of Fame career, the ongoing back-and-forth with Fury appears to have reignited his competitive instincts.<\/p>\n<p>Froch retired in 2014 after stopping George Groves before 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium to retain his WBA and IBF super middleweight titles.<\/p>\n<p>Still regarded as one of the sport\u2019s elite super middleweights at the time, he walked away despite the possibility of lucrative bouts against fighters such as Gennadiy Golovkin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Froch\u2019s latest comments came as he revisited his long-running war of words with John Fury, the 61-year-old father&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641368","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\/641368","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=641368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}