Nigel Benn has been mulling over a fantasy fight with Carl Froch and made a prediction for how it would go.
Brits have always competed well in the super-middleweight division, with plenty of marquee names making it to world championship level.
Back in Benn’s era in the mid-nineties, there were a wealth of fighters in the same weight divisions and plenty of legendary fights between them, with the likes of Chris Eubank and Steve Collins all fierce competitors.
After that time passed, Joe Calzaghe became the best super-middleweight on the planet and hot on his heels was the granite-chinned Carl Froch, who himself went on to hold the WBC title on two occasions as well as the IBF from 2012 to 2015.
Speaking to Through the Ropes, Benn, who retired with an 83.3% knockout ratio, was asked who he’d most like to fight from across the generations.
“Carl Froch.”
He then referenced the first Froch versus George Groves fight in which Froch was put to the floor in the first round and claimed he would have stopped the man no-one else ever managed to.
“If George Groves could put him down I would have kept him down but yeah he would have been a person I would have loved to have fought.”
Though Benn retired in 1996, for a short while in 2019 he was planning a comeback fight against Sakio Bika, but, ironically given the situation his son is currently in, the British Boxing Board of Control refused to sanction the fight before it was cancelled anyway when Benn picked up a shoulder injury.