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Carl Froch: I've dragged out fights so that my family can win money
Carl Froch has heaped yet more controversy on British boxing by admitting he has deliberately prolonged fights so members of his family could benefit from betting.
Carl Froch with his international super-middleweight title (Picture: Getty Images)
A day after Dereck Chisora and David Haye dragged boxing to new depths with their post-fight brawl in a Munich press room, former two-time super-middleweight world champion Froch claims he has previously strung out fights in order for friends and family to profit.
Froch said he could have finished a fight with Ruben Groenewald earlier than he did during a Commonwealth title defence in 2005, but reckons he allowed the South African to survive in the fourth round because members of his family had money riding on him winning in the fifth.
Froch told the BBC: ?I've done it more than one occasion and it was round five but that's not illegal.
?I can say, "right, I'll stop this kid in round five". If I'm good enough to do that then fair enough.
?I don't gamble but my brothers and my friends, they did quite well off it.
?I can openly say that because if I'm good enough to step on the gas in round five and force the stoppage then that's my privilege, and that's what I did in this particular fight at the Arena for the Commonwealth title defence.
?But the problem with that is I held him up in round four.
?He was there for the taking and I held him up, I got him with a shot, I could have ended up getting done myself in round four.?
i earned while the donkeys preached legit...U.K. boxing....rah rah...
Carl Froch: I've dragged out fights so that my family can win money
Carl Froch has heaped yet more controversy on British boxing by admitting he has deliberately prolonged fights so members of his family could benefit from betting.
Carl Froch with his international super-middleweight title (Picture: Getty Images)
A day after Dereck Chisora and David Haye dragged boxing to new depths with their post-fight brawl in a Munich press room, former two-time super-middleweight world champion Froch claims he has previously strung out fights in order for friends and family to profit.
Froch said he could have finished a fight with Ruben Groenewald earlier than he did during a Commonwealth title defence in 2005, but reckons he allowed the South African to survive in the fourth round because members of his family had money riding on him winning in the fifth.
Froch told the BBC: ?I've done it more than one occasion and it was round five but that's not illegal.
?I can say, "right, I'll stop this kid in round five". If I'm good enough to do that then fair enough.
?I don't gamble but my brothers and my friends, they did quite well off it.
?I can openly say that because if I'm good enough to step on the gas in round five and force the stoppage then that's my privilege, and that's what I did in this particular fight at the Arena for the Commonwealth title defence.
?But the problem with that is I held him up in round four.
?He was there for the taking and I held him up, I got him with a shot, I could have ended up getting done myself in round four.?
