Former unified super-middleweight world champion, Carl Froch, has revisited his favourite boxing moment – the highlight reel knockout of George Groves in front of 80,000 fans at Wembley, of course.
Froch was a guest on The George Groves Boxing Club podcast, something that would have been unimaginable years ago due to an intense dislike between the two Brits that will go down as one of the greatest domestic rivalries in the sport.
Despite all of that being in the past now and the two getting on well in retirement, ‘The Cobra’ didn’t miss his chance to discuss the knockout punch. In a clip that’s doing the rounds on Twitter, he explained it methodically and in surprisingly precise medical detail as Groves watched on.
“That shot, that I knocked you out with, in front of 80,000 at Wembley, when I landed on the mandible section of the cranium, rendering you unconscious momentarily, it came from nowhere.
It’s not like I thought, ‘I’m going to throw a check hook right hand and flatten him here’, it was just like a little-feint and then I’ll try that, and it just connected. It couldn’t have landed any more perfect.
It was a punch from the Gods – I couldn’t have landed it any harder.”
It’s no surprise that Froch remembers the moment clearly given that it was the last punch he threw in a professional bout. Following the knockout win, ‘The Cobra’ went on to retire whilst Groves fought on for four more years with wins over Martin Murray and Chris Eubank Jr still to come.
Both men – rivalry aside – will go down in British boxing history as legends of the game. It was refreshing to see two British legends able to sit around a table and have a meaningful talk without feeing the need to ‘have a little pull and a push’.
