{"id":751492,"date":"2026-08-27T14:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751492\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:40:28","slug":"carl-froch-picks-a-winner-in-prime-roy-jones-jr-vs-andre-ward-he-gets-the-job-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751492\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch picks a winner in prime Roy Jones Jr vs Andre Ward: &#8220;He gets the job done&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Jones Jr is deemed by many to have been unbeatable when at his best, but three-time super-middleweight world champion, Carl Froch, has now offered his thoughts on whether \u2018Captain Hook\u2019 could have done what he couldn\u2019t and defeat Andre Ward.<\/p>\n<p>Froch suffered two losses during his iconic career, first losing out to Mikkel Kessler on away soil in Denmark back in 2010 \u2013 a defeat he would go on to avenge three years later \u2013 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/16234673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">then to Ward the following year in a super-middleweight title unification<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ward would go on to fight at 168lbs on just two more occasions before moving up to light-heavyweight and eventually dethroning Sergey Kovalev to become a two-division world champion, then shockingly retiring at the age of just 33 years old with his undefeated record intact.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jones captured world honours in four weight divisions and is the only fighter post-19th century fighter to have won a world title at both middleweight and heavyweight, with his singular defeat in his first 50 professional contests coming by disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@frochonfighting\/video\/7675730534093393174?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018Froch on Fighting\u2019 channel<\/a>, \u2018The Cobra\u2019 said that Jones would have been able to put an end to Ward\u2019s unbeaten streak, despite his foe\u2019s best attempts to \u2018make it messy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoy Jones Jr. [wins]. Ward makes it messy and tries to p**s around in there but Roy Jones gets the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After years of back and forth, Froch and Ward recently buried the hatchet, 15 years after their encounter, with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/andre-ward-on-fighter-who-hit-him-hard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ward admitting that the Nottingham fan-favourite hurt him in their fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr is deemed by many to have been unbeatable when at his best, but three-time super-middleweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751492","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\/751492","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=751492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}