Carl Froch sets the record straight about Jake Paul
In the run up to Jake Paul’s clash with Tommy Fury, the YouTuber took the time to call out one of boxing’s great champions. Now Carl Froch hits back.
While the world that Jake Paul inhabits was not at all surprised to see their man call out the four-time Light heavyweight World Champion and Boxing Hall of Fame 2023 inductee Carl “The Cobra” Froch, it certainly seemed foolhardy at best by the boing fraternity.
Froch, for his part, seems to have not entertained for a second the thought of coming out of retirement to face Paul, no matter how much the media asked about it.
Asked to commentate on Paul’s clash with Tommy Fury, Froch pulled no punches in his assessment of the night’s action, saying, “Jake Paul doesn’t know what to do with himself when he’s put under pressure,” as he watched the action unfold.
Behind the scenes footage from BT Sport shows the Cobra wondering aloud, “Can you imagine that being my dream fight and biggest payday? Fighting a clown.”
Froch goes on to address Jake Paul’s record, saying, “It does make you question them wins he’s had. Where he’s hit them with one shot and they fell on the floor like they been tasered.”
Later in the bout, noting that Fury was up by a huge amount in the fight, Froch added, “It’s fair to say he’s absolutely useless, innit? Jake Paul.”
Disagreeing with John Fury’s assessment that Jake Paul can now say he is a pro boxer, Froch fired back, “He can’t call himself a professional boxer because he’s gone in against a novice pro and got absolutely whooped, he got obliterated. He wasn’t really in the fight let’s be honest. Ok, it was competitive at stages but look, he’s swinging for the heavens there with that overhand right.”
While the decision was split, the general consensus in the boxing world is that the judge who gave the fight to Paul was wildly off base, with nearly every pundit giving Tommy Fury seven of the eight rounds, and often by a very wide margin.
As the decision was given, Froch wondered aloud, “Is that the end of Jake Paul now, or what?”
Carl Froch has gained so much attention for his comments on Paul, Fury, and the wider boxing scene, that he has now launched a new YouTube channel of his own. Froch on Fighting is only a few hours old and is a new platform for the Cobra to discuss the sport with boxing fans.