“When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.”

British former professional boxer

Carl Froch is a British former professional boxer, active from 2002 to 2014, who later became a boxing analyst and commentator. He is best known for winning multiple world titles at super-middleweight. Froch held the WBC title twice between 2008 and 2011, then added the IBF title from 2012 to 2015 and the WBA title from 2013 to 2015. Before that, he held the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles from 2004 to 2008 and won the Lonsdale Belt in 2006. As an amateur, he won bronze at the 2001 World Championships and took the ABA title twice.