British four-time world super middleweight champion Carl Froch announced his retirement from boxing yesterday at the age of 38.
Froch, who was twice a winner of the WBC title and also a winner of the WBA and IBF belts during a highly successful career, said that he no longer had the desire to fight after spending more than a year out of the ring.
“I’m officially retired from Boxing. So much to say & so many people to thank. But for now, I just want to say THANK YOU to my amazing fans,” Froch wrote on Twitter yesterday morning.
“It wasn’t an easy decision, but it wasn’t as difficult as people might think,” the fighter from Nottingham went on to tell BBC Radio 5 live. “I turned 38 last week. My joints and bones are aching. If the desire was there, I could fight again, but there’s nothing motivating me. I’ve got nothing left to prove and I’m bowing out at the top.”
“My legacy speaks for itself. I’m incredibly proud of what I have achieved in boxing, but now is the right moment to hang up my gloves,” added Froch, who will now begin work as a boxing pundit on television.
Nicknamed “The Cobra,” Froch won 33 of his 35 fights, with 24 of those coming by knockout.
He defeated archrival George Groves in front of 80,000 people in a Wembley Stadium rematch that turned out to be his final fight in May last year.
An elbow injury forced him out of a planned March 28 bout against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in Las Vegas and to vacate his IBF title.
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