If the fight actually took place, how many fight fans would tune in, and pay to do so? It’s a guaranteed great fight that might actually have a small chance of getting made: Gennady Golovkin-Carl Froch! Wow, yes, wow. Yes, super-middleweight warrior and former champ Carl Froch is retired, but, as the saying, the adage, goes – they all come back.
And, according to GGG promoter Tom Loeffler, there is a possibility – just a small one – that “The Cobra” might be enticed to come back to fight the feared middleweight king. Speaking with IFL TV in Monaco at the Ortiz-Scott card, Loeffler said, with a smile (or maybe a mischievous grin) that he and Matchroom boss Eddie Hearn are working on a GGG-Froch match-up. This is a match-up that can only be described as a potential super-fight, one that millions of fans would cheerfully pay to see unfold it it was made a reality.
“I was talking to Eddie [Hearn] the other night. [There is a ] potential Froch fight,” Loeffler told James Helder. “We’re working on it, working on it. Chipping away. I mean, he’s retired, but I think the longer it goes, there could be some interest in it. I know Eddie’s interested. Eddie wants to do big events. I think, I know, we can break Froch’s record for 80,000 ticket sales.”
Fans will no doubt sneer in disbelief if and when they read about this, admittedly long-shot of a fight taking place, but let’s face it, weirder, more shockingly unlikely fights have come to fruition just lately. And with GGG struggling to get the marquee fights he wants – with a Danny Jacobs fight and a Canelo Alvarez fight still to be finalised – who knows, maybe Froch will be offered outstanding numbers to come back and participate in a catch-weight mega-fight with Triple-G.
We all know we’d watch it. Froch and Golovkin know we would, and so do Loeffler and Hearn. Froch, teak-tough, never stopped and the bigger man, might look at GGG as a great fighter he knows he can beat – even at age 38 (GGG being 34).
It could all be talk and nothing more (and again, Loeffler’s smile when speaking about a Froch-GGG fight was infectious) but would a Froch-Golovkin fight announcement shock you any more than the Pacquiao-De La Hoya, Khan-Canelo and GGG-Brook fight announcements did?
Golovkin-Froch: a genuine Super-Fight worth salvaging.