Froch My Autobiography – Carl Froch (1)

While my first WBC super-middleweight title defence was being made against Taylor — and the negotiations were pretty straightforward — I decided on my training programme. This would be two weeks in Nottingham, just ticking over and getting back my fitness levels, then seven weeks in Loughton, Essex. Three weeks before the fight, I would move out to Canada to acclimatise: the fight itself would be held in a massive hotel and casino in the wilds of Connecticut.

In Nottingham I started doing a bit of running and shadow boxing, but the real hard graft was done at Tony Sims’s gym in Loughton, on the outskirts of London. I would go down on Sunday night and stay in Loughton at the house of a friend, Mark Seltzer. Mark has done my corner for years as an assis- tant so staying with him just a few minutes away from the gym was perfect.

I trained in Loughton from Monday to Friday and sparred a lot with then-Commonwealth middleweight champion Darren Barker and super-middleweight prospect George Groves. Whenever a fighter comes out and says he is in the best shape of his life you can often take it with a pinch of salt but in the build-up to Taylor, I had the evidence, in black and white, to back it up. Since turning pro, I have kept a little diary to mark down every aspect of my career.

That means every training run time, every sparring session and every gym visit were all logged in a book. At the weekends in Nottingham, I went for the same six-mile run I had done for years and normally I did it in thirty-five minutes, which is under six minutes a mile. Anyone who runs regularly will tell you that is a decent lick.

I was shocked to break my best time in the run-up to the T aylor fight, but a few days after the high of that achievement, my world then came crashing down. I may be a proper anorak when it comes to recording my training runs, but that doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t look where you are going. A week before flying out to Canada, I turned over on my ankle doing something very, very stupid. I went for a quick run in Nottingham with Adam, just a little jog around to get a sweat going, but I momentarily didn’t look where I was going.

I went over a kerb as I crossed the road, did a mad somersault and ended up on my arse.

CARL FROCH was born in Nottingham in 1977. He is a four- time world champion at super middleweight and currently holds the WBA and IBF belts. His professional record is 33 wins (24 by knock-out) and 2 losses. He lives with his partner Rachael and their two children, Rocco and Natalia. Niall Hickman is the boxing correspondent for the Daily Express.

He previously worked with Ricky Hatton on his autobiography The Hitman. The previous edition of this book was published as The Cobra — My Story. MTT 90800100236974 bi ae as “lying er ee ‘ ; . i 7 a _ . MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY GARL FROCH ITH NIALL HICKMAN PRESS 1S P5 5 OL ORS TOI eZ Ebury Press, an imprint of Ebury Publishing 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road London SW1V 2SA Ebury Press is part of the Penguin Random House group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com Penguin Random House UK Copyright © Carl Froch 2011 All photographs author’s own unless otherwise stated Carl Froch has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this Work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 First published by Ebury Press in 2011 as The Cobra www.eburypublishing.co.uk A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 9780091960377 Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CRO 4YY MIX Paper from responsible sources mee FSC® C018179 Penguin Random House is committed to a sustainable future for our business, our readers and our planet.

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