{"id":742206,"date":"2026-08-18T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742206\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:26:08","slug":"carl-froch-says-he-would-beat-canelo-and-crawford-but-lose-to-another-168-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742206\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch says he would beat Canelo and Crawford but lose to another 168 legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Froch is praised as one of the best British fighters of all time, but when \u2018The Cobra\u2019 was quizzed on which fellow super-middleweights he could have beaten, there was one former world champion that he feared would be \u2018too fast for him\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a stacked 168lb era, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/13144961\/carl-froch-relives-his-explosive-rematch-win-over-george-groves-at-wembley-stadium-on-the-10-year-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Froch overcame the likes of Jean Pascal, Mikkel Kessler and George Groves<\/a>; famed for his guts and grit as much as his boxing skill, as he became a three-time world champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since Froch\u2019s retirement, Canelo Alvarez has assumed control of the super-middleweight scene and has become the division\u2019s first undisputed champion, but the Mexican superstar lost the belts to Terence Crawford last September and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/canelo-announces-new-date-for-mbilli\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is now on a mission to reclaim them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/frochonfighting\/status\/2089380048897822826?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">On his YouTube channel<\/a>, in a game of winner stays on, Froch declared his belief that he would have beaten both Canelo and Crawford, as well as each of Nigel Benn, James Toney and Bernard Hopkins.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prime <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Carl_Froch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Carl_Froch<\/a> vs Super-Middleweight LEGENDS: WINNER STAYS ON \ud83e\udd4a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/boxing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#boxing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CHV5nZk80b\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/CHV5nZk80b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Froch On Fighting Clips (@frochonfighting) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/frochonfighting\/status\/2089380048897822826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, when asked about a potential showdown with a prime Roy Jones Jr \u2013 one of just two fighters to have captured a world title at both middleweight and heavyweight \u2013 Froch was happy to admit that \u2018Captain Hook\u2019 would have been \u2018too fast\u2019 for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cobra is getting done here! Roy Jones beats The Cobra. Too fast, too skilful. I might not even lay a glove on him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jones Jr retired as a four-division world champion with a record of 66-10 (47 KOs), having spent a number of years as the consensus pound-for-pound number one fighter on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Froch is praised as one of the best British fighters of all time, but when \u2018The Cobra\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-742206","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\/742206","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=742206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}