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Carl Froch | “Tyson Fury is using money as an excuse to avoid Usyk!”

Up Front

Folding Pocket

Sports, Soccer

4.6778 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This is Up Front with Simon Jordan. A new show brought to you by William Hill that pulls no punches and tells it EXACTLY like it is. Carl Froch is one of the greatest boxers this country has ever produced. A 4 time world champion who never shied away from the biggest fights. Carl joins the show to discuss his illustrious career, his unique psychological makeup, whilst also giving his views on the troubled boxing landscape. Subscribe for future episodes and head to www.youtube.com/@UpFrontWithSimonJordan for full video episodes.  18+ please gamble responsibly.  Warning: this episode contains language that some people may find offensive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And as I walked back to the changing rooms, someone shouted, Farach, I looked around and spat right in my face.

0:05.0

Lovely.

0:06.0

Well, that was nice, thanks for that.

0:07.0

Well, you're not entertained.

0:08.0

One of the best nights of my life, becoming world champion.

0:10.0

Got that green and gold belt that Mike Tyson had at Muhammad and Oli.

0:13.0

I had, Sonny Liston. I've got that belt.

0:14.0

That's me, I'm world opinion. I think Tyson Fury, if he really wants to fight Oussie,

0:21.5

why is he chucking in the 70-30 split?

0:23.3

In your view, he doesn't want to fight.

0:24.6

No, his bluff was called, and he didn't think he could get ready in six weeks.

0:27.8

This is up front with me, Simon Jordan.

0:29.4

I believe there are a lot of vacuous, unformed, unchallenged opinions out there. get to the bottom line and cut through the nonsense. So with this podcast with William Hill, I'm going to get

0:38.0

people with strong views who think they can stand them up to proper scrutiny. There's a good chance

0:42.7

I might learn something along the way, and more importantly, so might you. Joining me in today's

0:50.0

episode, a man who never shied away from the biggest fights, one after the other, a four-time

0:55.5

world champion, a well-deserved Hall of Famer, and now a brilliant pundit calling the shots

1:01.3

from outside the ropes. The Cobra, Carl Frotch. Welcome to Up Front. Thanks for having me on.

1:07.4

It's a pleasure. Pleasure to be here. I'm in an invidious difficult position,

1:11.0

Carl, because it's very rare that I actually go on to one of these shows with a deep-seated

1:16.9

admiration for the person that I'm speaking to. So I find myself in this position of going,

1:21.8

I really quite like this guy. And most of the time I'm going in there going, okay, what can I talk

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