{"id":299814,"date":"2023-12-12T18:39:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T18:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=299814"},"modified":"2023-12-12T18:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T18:39:33","slug":"carl-froch-scrapped-in-pubs-every-saturday-aged-15-during-rough-upbringing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/boxing\/carl-froch-scrapped-in-pubs-every-saturday-aged-15-during-rough-upbringing\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch \u2018scrapped in pubs every Saturday aged 15′ during rough upbringing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Carl Froch got his boxing experience by scrapping in pubs at the age of 15.<\/p>\n

    The iconic boxer never turned pro until he was 24, though didn't let that stop him forging a brilliant career in the ring. Froch held multiple super-middleweight world championships, winning 33 of his 35 fights.<\/p>\n

    The 46-year-old retired after beating George Groves for a second time in 2014 and has gone on to become a successful pundit. Though his life could have turned out very different after a rough upbringing.<\/p>\n

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    "I waited until I was 24 [to turn pro] because I had no choice," Froch said, via AceOdds. "I didn't box from the age of 15 to the age of 20. I came out of boxing.<\/p>\n

    "I boxed amateur from like eight years old. I started competing at 10 or 11, whatever it was back then. I think the rules on age have changed.<\/p>\n

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    "So regardless of how old I was, I boxed as a schoolboy and as a junior for five or six years, competitively. Before that, a couple of years. So I had only eight years as a fighter.<\/p>\n

    "And then we moved to Newark and I didn't box. So when I was 15 years old, I stopped boxing, stopped going down the gym, stopped training.<\/p>\n

    "I was in pubs, I was playing pool and snooker and playing on fruit machines. And I was outside on the beer garden and I was scrapping every Saturday, even as a 15 year old, I was getting involved in fights because we was in pubs."<\/p>\n

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    Froch learned the tricks of the trade in pub gardens and was helped by having two brothers who weren't afraid to also get in the thick of it.<\/p>\n

    The Cobra added: "I've got a big brother who used to have a roll around with every now and again, and I've got a little brother as well. We had a rough time, me and my brothers as kids."<\/p>\n