{"id":750266,"date":"2026-08-26T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750266\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:40:13","slug":"carl-froch-predicts-prime-david-haye-vs-anthony-joshua-his-explosive-power-wins-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750266\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch predicts prime David Haye vs Anthony Joshua: “His explosive power wins it”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hall of Famer Carl Froch has considered the outcome of a hypothetical all-British heavyweight clash between Anthony Joshua<\/a> and David Haye<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Hayemaker\u2019 had actually called out Joshua on multiple occasions in 2016, only to lose his domestic dustup with Tony Bellew the following year.<\/p>\n

This, however, was hardly the most formidable version of Haye, who moved up to heavyweight following consecutive stoppages of Jean Marc Mormeck and Enzo Maccarinelli at 200lbs.<\/p>\n

The Londoner then went on to dethrone 7ft giant Nikolai Valuev<\/a>, edging a majority decision to claim the WBA title in their 2009 encounter.<\/p>\n

Under two years later, though, he ended up losing a unanimous decision to Wladimir Klitschko<\/a>, citing his broken toe as one of the reasons for his convincing defeat.<\/p>\n

But still, Haye produced a far more assertive performance in his following outing, stopping the typically durable Derek Chisora in five rounds.<\/p>\n

Former world champion Froch has therefore told NewBettingSites<\/a> that he would back the vicious sharpshooter to defeat Joshua.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fancy Haye. He was so quick, had explosive power, and Joshua can\u2019t take a punch. I don\u2019t think Joshua actually likes it when he\u2019s fighting. I don\u2019t think he enjoys it.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Whereas] The Hayemaker used to lick his lips, get in there and love it. I think the tenacity of Haye and the explosive power wins it.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople will say, \u2018Look at Haye against Klitschko. Klitschko was too big for him\u2019. [But] Klitschko was cute \u2013 holding back, staying out of the way, being tricky and horrible.<\/p>\n

\u201cAJ is not that good. AJ beat a 42-year-old Klitschko who had been on the sofa for 18 months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua did, indeed, become a unified champion by climbing off the canvas to stop Klitschko in their 2017 thriller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer Carl Froch has considered the outcome of a hypothetical all-British heavyweight clash between Anthony Joshua…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750266","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\/750266","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=750266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}