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Carl Froch has bit back at Andre Ward after the American taunted him from London last week.
The former pound-for-pound king came over to the UK to be part of US broadcaster ESPN’s coverage of Vasyl Lomachenko’s victory over Luke Campbell and had some words for the absent Froch during his stay.
Following on from their bitter trash talk exchanged on social media earlier this year, Ward joked that he was ‘looking’ for the Brit on and discussed his desire to have a chat with him in several interviews.
However, Froch has now replied by writing in a column for Sky Sports: “I saw one little clip that my brother sent me while I was sunbathing next to the pool.
“I think he just said we had been exchanging banter back and forth on Twitter? ‘Let’s get together, let’s have a chat,’ I don’t know what he was saying?
“I’m just honest about what I see and I think his style is borderline cheating. Listen, he beat me fair and square, let’s get that straight, but it was one of the worst fights I’ve been involved in.”
In 2011, ‘SOG’ beat the ‘Cobra’ by a wide points decision to win the Super Six tournament after a heated build-up – it would be the only loss the Brit didn’t avenge.
Despite seemingly burying the hatchet in the immediate aftermath, the pair have since exchanged words on multiple occasions and a proposed rematch never occurred.
Back in January following the retirement of George Groves, Ward slammed Froch’s critical reaction, calling him ‘old and bitter.’ This sparked a fresh feud.
Froch continued: “You have to admire him for going through his career unbeaten, but he’s not an entertainer, and in an entertaining sport, it’s good to entertain. Andre Ward’s style is effective, but it’s boring.
“You’ll never rewatch a Ward fight. He fought the most feared man in boxing, Sergey Kovalev twice. Let’s be honest, he beat him with low blows in the end.
“All I do is, I just tell the truth. If the truth hurts, you don’t like it, then do something about it. He can’t argue with me.”
“Ward barely leaves his home country. He only came to England, because he knew I was in Spain. I could see him looking at my Instagram stories, he knew I was out of the country.
“It’s all history and I’m grateful to Ward, because he made me the animal I became to beat Lucian Bute.
“From there, I sold 80,000 tickets at Wembley Stadium, and he could not sell out a phone box.”