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Total Fights | 35 |
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Wins | 33 |
Losses | 2 |
Draws | 0 |
No-Contests | 0 |
Title Wins | 4 |
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Title Defenses | 7 |
Title-Fight KOs | 5 |
KO Wins | 24 |
KO Losses | 0 |
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In a professional boxing career spanning 12 years and two months, Carl Froch fought 35 times with 33 wins and 2 losses.
Froch retired from professional boxing with a record of 33-2, which included four super-middleweight world-title wins and seven successful title defense fights. He had a 68.6% knockouts-to-fights ratio with 24 of his total 35 fights being knockout wins, five of which were in title fights. Froch never lost via knockout.
His last fight was a 8th round KO victory over George Groves on May 31, 2014. Froch successfully defended the super-middleweight WBA (Unified) and IBF titles in this fight.
Some of Froch's best fights and notable victories include wins over Lucian Bute, Mikkel Kessler, Arthur Abraham, Yusaf Mack, George Groves, Andre Dirrell, and Jean Pascal.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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35 | May 31, 2014 | 36 | George Groves | Win * | KO8 |
34 | Nov 23, 2013 | 36 | George Groves | Win * | TKO9 |
33 | May 25, 2013 | 35 | Mikkel Kessler | Win * | UD |
32 | Nov 17, 2012 | 35 | Yusaf Mack | Win * | KO3 |
31 | May 26, 2012 | 34 | Lucian Bute | Win * | TKO5 |
30 | Dec 17, 2011 | 34 | Andre Ward | Loss * | UD |
29 | Jun 4, 2011 | 33 | Glen Johnson | Win * | MD |
28 | Nov 27, 2010 | 33 | Arthur Abraham | Win * | UD |
27 | Apr 24, 2010 | 32 | Mikkel Kessler | Loss * | UD |
26 | Oct 17, 2009 | 32 | Andre Dirrell | Win * | SD |
25 | Apr 25, 2009 | 31 | Jermain Taylor | Win * | TKO12 |
24 | Dec 6, 2008 | 31 | Jean Pascal | Win * | UD |
23 | May 10, 2008 | 30 | Albert Rybacki | Win | TKO4 |
22 | Nov 9, 2007 | 30 | Robin Reid | Win | RTD5 |
21 | Mar 23, 2007 | 29 | Sergey Tatevosyan | Win | TKO2 |
20 | Nov 24, 2006 | 29 | Tony Dodson | Win | KO3 |
19 | May 26, 2006 | 28 | Brian Magee | Win | KO11 |
18 | Feb 17, 2006 | 28 | Dale Westerman | Win | TKO9 |
17 | Dec 2, 2005 | 28 | Ruben Groenewald | Win | TKO5 |
16 | Jul 9, 2005 | 28 | Matthew Barney | Win | PTS |
15 | Apr 21, 2005 | 27 | Henry Porras | Win | TKO8 |
14 | Sep 24, 2004 | 27 | Damon Hague | Win | TKO1 |
13 | Jun 2, 2004 | 26 | Mark Woolnaugh | Win | TKO11 |
12 | Mar 12, 2004 | 26 | Charles Adamu | Win | PTS |
11 | Jan 30, 2004 | 26 | Dmitry Adamovich | Win | TKO2 |
10 | Nov 28, 2003 | 26 | Alan Page | Win | TKO7 |
9 | Oct 4, 2003 | 26 | Vage Kocharyan | Win | PTS |
8 | Apr 16, 2003 | 25 | Michael Monaghan | Win | TKO3 |
7 | Mar 5, 2003 | 25 | Varuzhan Davtyan | Win | TKO5 |
6 | Jan 28, 2003 | 25 | Valery Odin | Win | TKO6 |
5 | Dec 21, 2002 | 25 | Mike Duffield | Win | TKO1 |
4 | Oct 25, 2002 | 25 | Paul Bonson | Win | PTS |
3 | Aug 23, 2002 | 25 | Darren Covell | Win | TKO1 |
2 | May 10, 2002 | 24 | Ojay Abrahams | Win | KO1 |
1 | Mar 16, 2002 | 24 | Michael Pinnock | Win | TKO4 |
* World-title fight
Carl Froch (The Cobra) is a 46-year old retired British professional boxer. He was born in Nottingham, England on July 2, 1977. He is a former super-middleweight world champion. Froch was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) in 2023. His professional boxing career spanned more than 12 years — from 2002 to 2014.
Froch made his professional boxing debut against Michael Pinnock at the age of 24 on March 16, 2002, defeating Pinnock via 4th round TKO. He went on to win 25 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 19 wins via stoppage.
He had his first world title fight at the age of 31 on December 6, 2008 after 23 professional fights, against Jean Pascal for the super-middleweight WBC (vacant) title. He defeated Pascal via 12 round unanimous decision to become the super-middleweight champion of the world.
Carl Froch was a one-time unified super-middleweight world champion, and has won four world titles at super-middleweight. For all the details about Froch's world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Froch had a total of two losses in his professional boxing career.
His last professional fight was a super-middleweight title defense bout against fellow British boxer George Groves on May 31, 2014. Froch won the fight via 8th round KO and defended his WBA (Unified) and IBF titles. It's been 9 years, 10 months, and 25 days since this fight.
Froch had a total of 12 world-title fights, which includes winning four world titles and seven successful title defenses. He won 10 of these fights and lost two.
Carl Froch fought for super-middleweight world titles in five fights and won four of these fights, winning one of them via way of stoppage. In total, he won four super-middleweight belts.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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May 25, 2013^ | Mikkel Kessler | Super-middleweight | WBA (Unified) | UD |
May 26, 2012 | Lucian Bute | Super-middleweight | IBF | TKO |
Nov 27, 2010 | Arthur Abraham | Super-middleweight | WBC* | UD |
Dec 6, 2008 | Jean Pascal | Super-middleweight | WBC* | UD |
Carl Froch had nine super-middleweight world-title defense fights. He won seven of them and lost two times.
Following is the table of his successful title defense fights, the next section has the fights where he lost his titles.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Defended | Method |
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May 31, 2014 | George Groves | Super-middleweight | WBA (Unified), IBF | KO |
Nov 23, 2013 | George Groves | Super-middleweight | WBA (Unified), IBF | TKO |
May 25, 2013^ | Mikkel Kessler | Super-middleweight | IBF | UD |
Nov 17, 2012 | Yusaf Mack | Super-middleweight | IBF | KO |
Jun 4, 2011 | Glen Johnson | Super-middleweight | WBC | MD |
Oct 17, 2009 | Andre Dirrell | Super-middleweight | WBC | SD |
Apr 25, 2009 | Jermain Taylor | Super-middleweight | WBC | TKO |
Carl Froch lost two world-title defense fights, and lost a total of two titles in these fights.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Lost | Method |
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Dec 17, 2011 | Andre Ward | Super-middleweight | WBC | UD |
Apr 24, 2010 | Mikkel Kessler | Super-middleweight | WBC | UD |
Froch fought a total of 35 times during his professional career, which includes 12 world-title fights at the super-middleweight division. He was among the top boxers of his generation and put on some very good performances in these fights. These eight fights are the highlight of his career.
May 26, 2006: Carl Froch puts on the first remarkable performance of his career, defeating Brian Magee via 11th round KO.
December 6, 2008: Froch wins his first world title by defeating Jean Pascal via 12 round unanimous decision. He is now the WBC super-middleweight world champion.
October 17, 2009: Froch successfully defends the WBC super-middleweight title against Andre Dirrell, winning the fight via 12 round split decision.
November 27, 2010: Froch wins the WBC super-middleweight title from Arthur Abraham, by beating Abraham via 12 round unanimous decision.
May 26, 2012: Froch wins the IBF super-middleweight title from Lucian Bute, by beating Bute via 5th round TKO.
May 25, 2013: Froch becomes a unified super-middleweight world champion by beating Mikkel Kessler via 12 round unanimous decision. He now holds the IBF and WBA (Unified) super-middleweight world-champion belts.
November 23, 2013: Froch successfully defends the WBA (Unified) and IBF super-middleweight titles against George Groves, winning the fight via 9th round TKO.
May 31, 2014: Froch successfully defends the WBA (Unified) and IBF super-middleweight titles against George Groves, winning the fight via 8th round KO.
Froch knocked out 24 of his 35 opponents. By his last fight, his KO ratio was at 68.6%. Of his total 33 wins, 24 of them were via KO (72.7%).
Froch's first world-title win was the WBC (vacant) belt at super-middleweight. He defeated Jean Pascal via 12 round unanimous decision to win the title.
Froch won four world titles at super-middleweight.
Froch had a total of nine title defense fights. He was successful seven times and lost two times.