Haye v Joshua? Froch v Bellew? Naseem Hamed v Mayweather? | Q&A with Carl Froch

Froch takes part in a Q&A as asked by the followers.

00:00 – Intro
00:29 – Current weight and diet/training regime?
03:13 – Current diet plan
05:10 – Weight training routine
07:30 – No McCracken, who would be your coach?
09:05 – Polish heritage
13:07 – Froch v Bellew right now?
14:40 – Life in Nottingham
15:55 – Prince Nas v Mayweather?
17:48 – David Haye v Anthony Joshua?
19:14 – Leave boxing unscathed?
21:01 – Thank you for the questions
21:57 – Outro

Hello and welcome to fut on fighting my name is KL frut I’m here with my lovely wife Rachel fut did you want to introduce yourself I did but you’ve obviously done it for me what say don’t forget to like share and subscribe I got that in for you

Thank you well we’re doing some question and answers today I’m G to ask you the questions and you’re going to answer honestly can’t I ask you some questions I always answer honestly you can you can ask me whatever you want really what want you are you sure this episode is

Brought to you by Cobra casino right Rachel what you got for me okay right first question is I love the channel obviously what’s your current weight and training diet regime oh I’m a machine I know that much what do I weigh I know exactly what I weigh because I’ve got

This bad habit of weigh myself every night and every morning I always do that don’t I is that just because of what you went through with the box I think so I always want to know what I weigh so I’m I’m around 14 Stones so that’s £196 14

Stone I boxed at 12 stone which was £ 168 okay so what I put on 32 I’m nearly 200 pound because about 196 which is 14 Stone but I float around 200 which is 14 Stone 4 don’t like to go below 40 but my body fat counts really low I’m not going

To get my stomach out I could do but I’m not gonna I still I still look good I look slim and strong and um I’ve still got it I’ve still got it never never lost it but no nearly I mean that’s crucial it’s getting on for heavy with

Cruiserweight so I’d be a wrecking you wouldn’t want to do that then would you Cruiserweight I’d be a wrecking ball at Cruiserweight no there’s some big lumps out there so no to answer your question I box at 12 stone I’m now walking around at 14 Stone my training raim I’m in the

Gym every day I don’t do much cardio I do I do do cardio but not much I do like explosive 30 second burst on a step machine that I’ve got in my gym so I’ll be on and off the step machine in in burst exercises because I can’t be doing

With a 30 minute run or 45 minute run well say though why say why because you’ve done it for so long because I hate running yeah yeah I just hate running and running I don’t think it’s good for you it’s bad for your joints your knees your hips I’m 46 years old

Now and you don’t want to be running every day you’ve done it for so many years I do hate running yeah I got up every day when I was training for a fight for 12 weeks up at six o’clock look at the you look at the alarm clock

And you’re like got to go for a run and then it’s raining or it’s winding and when you’re serious about the sport if you don’t do a run you’re cheating and if you cheat you finish in second place so I had this really strict mindset of

Never cut Corners um as soon as I turned professional I did it a couple of times missed the odd run early on in my career and you feel you get found out you get caught you struggle in fights and you think that should have been an easy fight and I’ve struggled there because

Maybe it wasn’t because I missed the run but in my head because I missed the run it it plays on your mind so by having that mindset of a champion and of a winner you don’t cheat you don’t got Corners Floyd Mayweather trained all hours godsend all the top fighters they all trained

Like lunatics and the harder you train the luier you get for some reason you know I mean you get you get out of what you put in like anything in life which is great so yeah so your diet though tell us a bit about your diet diet is

Quite clean I don’t need much crap don’t e anything out of a packet unless I really have to and sometimes you have to sometimes you’re on the road you’re busy you’re hungry you eat a packet of Cris or you eat a a Snickers bar or something like that or protein bar they’re all

Crap anything in a packet is no good for you processed Ultra processed food I try and swerve I try and keep it as raw as possible minimum ingredients I’ve stopped eating bread because there’s too many ingredients in it and the kids are going to start cooking bread aren’t you

Like a bit of sourdough then yeah sour dough sour listen that’s a better form of bread and it’s if you look at the ingredients in s and look at the ingredients of your normal Kingsmill or yovis or whatever far far less ingredients so not just bread I’ll eat

I’ll eat pasta I’ll eat rice um I eat meat I like a good steak for my local butchers tuxford little plug there for tuxford might give me might give me a bit of discount might get a free steak but no I do eat red meat I eat steak I

Eat chicken I try and get it as organic as I can it’s not always organic and when you eat out you’ve got to accept the 10% of your diet is going to be crap even if you go to a nice restaurant you don’t know if that chicken or or steak’s

Organic but you just accept that I’ve still got to live but I do have a very clean diet don’t eat many don’t eat much crisp chocolate don’t ever ever eat sweet sugar sugar I never put sugar in my body um any sugar I get is from fruit

I eat a lot of fruit I don’t eat many much veg and um yeah my diet is pretty good and I don’t have I don’t have a big appetite I don’t snack between meals I don’t I don’t eat much I’m um I’m just um I’m just not very hungry I’m not a

Very hungry person yeah mean I don’t I don’t eat much you know when you were when you were training though and you were boxing you loved absolutely loved a dessert as in a dessert go always had a sweet too you’re craving sugar because that’s your first energy source and now

That and now that you can have it I’m never wants to no I don’t I love cheesecake yeah when the girls when the girls bake yeah yeah yeah you will have a piece or if the girls and and if the kids have a dessert in a restaurant they

Don’t finish it then I’ll always Hoover it up like Captain Caveman I get it down there like the bin um so what weights you do now so weight training routines I do mainly deadlifting and I’m up to 180 kilogram I don’t want to go too heavy over you

Probably won’t mean anything to you you won’t be able to get it off the ground if you had a car jack you won’t get it up but 180 it’s quite heavy for me I’m 14 Stone now though so I could never lift 180 when I was boxing so I was only

12 stone so deadlifting I also do clean and press and I’ve got what I’ve got on there I’ve got I have a plate 20 and a 10 yes I have a plate and a half so 80 what’s that is that 80 kilo yeah 80 kilo

Clean and press I can go heavier but I don’t want to because I’m doing 10 reps so four sets of 10 reps on the clean so lift off the ground and then up above your head clean and press so I do clean and press I do dead lifting I do bench

Press I can do 120 kilo de bench press which is two and a half plates as that’s two 20 kilo plates either side and a 10 either side for five reps I do I rep 10 Reps for 100 kilo quite easy now I won’t say easy but three sets of 10 reps on

100 kg to get that out it’s pretty strong so I’ll put another 10 kilo of aside and I’ll do five so pretty much and then the cable pulling machine I’ll get the cables and I’ll do I’ll do flies for a bit of a shape now and I’ll put

I’ll put that on for the curls so dumbell curs and the barbell curl on the a Polly but the big ones I think that are good for men and good to make and I say men because they release a growth hormone and they keep your testosterone levels High we need a bit of

Testosterone in our life we certainly do especially when you’re a married man and your wife’s nine years younger than you we all need the tea levels to be teed up and I’m not injecting either some people say FRS must be juice yeah I said that I

Don’t take steroids I don’t take I never have them but um at some stage of my life maybe in my 50s I will supplement testosterone correctly I’ll see a doctor I’ll get my blood test and a look and I’ll supplement testosterone because I think that could be massively beneficial

For the people that I know in the 50s that still look good they’ll take a bit of test which is um can be massively beneficial because that’s the main hormone that leaves you and goes as you get older so yeah bench press deadlift clean and press natural testosterone due

To a good diet and a NYE younger misses keeps you going mate keeps the blood flowing keeps was flowing too much information shut off right so next question if you didn’t have Robert McCracken as your trainer during your career who else would you have liked to

Have worked with if I didn’t meet Rob McCracken in Belfast in 2001 at the World Championships i’ a probably I was a massive Nassim hammed fan so the late great Brendan Engel he was still around when I was um early on in my career and obviously his son Dominic Engle still

Trains now I don’t if he’s training many people now but he had Kell Brook he’s had he’s had loads of Fighters and kid Gala had Barry and loads more Fighters before and after them but they’re just a few that You’ probably know like Kell Brook was a big a good fighter and he

Had some good wins so to answer the question I probably ended up in Sheffield because I love that style of fighting and um I’ve met I’ve met I mean a guy called Junior Witter who I was training with and he was with Dominic inle and um I got quite close then when

He fought L Mor and do and when Howard Eastman fought B Hopkins and I was training with um Eastman in Fort Lauderdale north of Miami that is in America before he took on Hopkins I was quite close with with the the the Sheffield lot mind just saying that I

Was already a pro then but I knew I would have got on with them because of that yeah because he knows he’s boxing um Dominic Engle and yeah I think that in Sheffield I ended up in Sheffield at the is yeah he did yeah I just I just

Think and it’s not too far from Nottingham so yeah if I didn’t have Rob mcre as much trainer I probably would have had Dominic Engel so what is the story behind your polish Roots do you feel connected to Poland have you ever been um oh and this

Is from a gedin lad in Nottingham now living in Poland PO is it Poland or Poland Poland how I say Poland Poland I don’t know I don’t know after to you know what I mean I just I I can just see a poll with you next to it obviously I’m joking um

Getting lad from Poland that’s me so my grandparents vo F and my grandma Alexandra they’re both polish they came over to from krov to England in World War II at the end of World War II my granddad actually surrendered on the beach of Normandy can you believe that that’s just unbelievable Winston

Churchill said we’ll fight them on the beach we’ll meet him and we’ll we’ll conquer them and um yeah makes me get there he was one of the guys I know it’s madness madness so my dad is fully Polish blood but born in England so I’m half polish um that’s the reason I’ve

Got a Polish passport a lot not a lot of people know that but um yes still got the EU badge on here comes in handy every now and again um so that’s the history my grandma and Grandad came over after World War II so I’ve got Polish blood

Would you like to go back I think this is something that we’ve probably skirted over but I think we should I’ve been to Poland a few times box never yeah I boxed in the Olympic qualif lost to a guy called Powell kitech he always remember the names of the people

That beat you um and yeah he was polish that was in Poland I got robbed I beat him up that was from my Olympic place in the Sydney 2000 Olympics um but yeah Poland is a beautiful country and when I was there it was more like coming out of

Communism but Robert McCracken spoke to me about three weeks ago and he said you should get out to Poland it’s amazing what an amazing Place loves it we should go and visit definely 100% still got cousins out there right okay Aunt my auntie Barbara keeps in touch with them

So yeah it’s it’s fascinating really and beautiful part of the world apparently so that’s my um that’s my polish history and I can’t speak much polish all I can say is my granddad used to shout on my grandma when he was arguing when I was a

Kid we used to go visit him in the weekends so any Polish people listening they’ be really offended about that I think it means you fat ass cow shut up some really offends oh my God it’s not that offensive like I can’t speak Polish but I know the slang words because when I

Was a little kid that’s what I used to pick up I wonder if people know that you’re polish I wonder if you have a look of a lot of people think I’m Eastern European oh really okay I looked a bit more polish before I got rid of

The old bugle a lot of people say that I just a lot of people say that I don’t look yeah you don’t look English you’ve got like an Italian like a look about you maybe you from Liverpool though aren’t you from Liverpool yeah yeah so you know what the Liverpool ports what

Is it the do which dock is it it’s the Albert dock the Albert dock all them Sailors coming in from all over Europe you don’t know where you’re from Imagine your Grandma and Granddad or great great grandma and Granddad it could be from anywhere in Europe coming on the dog all

The sailors playing the motorboat you Ming son of a you old sailor you sorry I lost the plot there excuse me my grandma no what listen all them Sailors coming in from all the different parts of the of Europe your your ancestry your jeans probably go right back to

Somewhere deep in po Italy I think you got an Italian look about you aren’t you I get Italian or Spanish yeah let us know in the comments below where you think Rachel looks like she’s from she’s actually just a scouter I’m proud of it yeah proud of it

Well you got to be proud of in um in Liverpool like Liverpool Football Club yeah the bours we have Sila black Sila black little bit Sila she of course she is Legend we got Brian though and to and that’s true and the Cobra right exactly

Next question if you and B you were to fight right now at at Cruiserweight we have a how would it go down we’re mates the king of the jungle is it the king of jungle yeah it did well didn’t it yes um if we was to have a fight cruiserweight right

Now I’d absolutely ammer in I think I’m in shape I think he’s lost a bit of shape you’d always say that always he’d argue otherwise but no we used to have some great spars me tone he’s the only guy to put me down in sparing he told me

It was a left dog I thought it was a right hand so it must have been a good shot I can’t remember I can’t remember what hit me I got off the canvas though to carry on and finish the spa and I finished the spa pretty good but right

Now um me and Tony Bell in the boxing R I think I’d do him I just think I’m in the gym every day I’m I hit that bag for half an hour I don’t think Tony does a great deal in the gym I think he’s one of them that once he finished boxing

Actually saying that I’ve seen him doing a few workouts it’d be a good fight would it I think had have chined him I mean got back then it was a it was a good fight so when we used to Spa he was nearly two Stone in the gym I’m super middleweight he was

Drained himself down to light everyway okay so we’d come into the gym probably about a stone and a half heavier than you maybe two stone heavy than me because I was always around the weight I was like 122 123 he’ walk into gym 14 Stone and we have proper spars and I’ve

Got that I’ve got a massive weight disadvantage so at the same wait right now I think I’d do him but if you caught me on the chin who knows but I’ve got a granite chin I know but me and Tony belly were friends Tony no offense I

Think I done you it was a good question though it was a decent question so next question are you still living in Nottingham and what do you think about Nottingham as a city yeah still live in Nottingham lived here virtually all my life I spent a couple of years in London

Early in my career and obvious spent a lot of time in Sheffield towards the end of my career but lived in Nottingham all my life born and raised all my family are here I love Nottingham Nottingham’s a great City got Brian K Tov and Dean I mean you’ve always been proud of

Nottingham yeah yeah I like well I think it’s where you’re from I do think you can have a a better night out maybe just because he different when you go to Liverpool for example where you are I feel like betters and restaurant we’re we’re on the on the raise now on the

Rise now because we’ve got notan forest in the Premier League when you’ve got a Premier League football team money gets invested into the city yeah and Liverpool’s been a top club for years so as Manchester so when you go around M cities I feel that there’s more just

Feels more athlet when you go out there’s nicer bars and restaurants it was CU Liverpool all those years ago won the capital of culture and then they plowed money into it there you go and then that’s how it all so I love night but night gam needs a little bit of a

Cash injection that’s what it needs and then once he gets that I reckon we’ll be Forest night G Forest need to stay up in the Premier League and I think we’ll be okay but yeah it’s a good city night G I like it so prince nazim hammed versus

Mayweather who wins Mayweather oh that was quick Floyd ever against Prince Nim mmed listen massive Nassim mmed fan as you know it was just it was extravagant it was exciting it was good to watch he had a big punch but he lost to Marco Antonio Barrera I was there I was I I

Snuck down to ringside on my cheap seats tickets I was up in the bleaches I was up in the nose beds as I say the seats at the back of the arena and we crawled down and got our away through and blagged our away in me and my mate and

Jason and Lee my brother um but nassie mammed kind of lost it towards the end of his career a massive puncher destructive I just think there’s levels to the game and as good as Nassim hammed was if you look at how he fought against Barrera he just got outboxed and he got

Kind of scored and it was just too easy for Barrera Floyd Mayweather’s next level from barera he’s just brilliant so Nassim hammed against Mayweather really that’s just a mismatch and i’ goes to far to say is a mismatch it’d be good for a few rounds soon as Nas started to

Get tired maywe would take over but it would it’ be good one to seez cuz NZ in his prime in his prime a prime NZ gunslinging throwing big shots and big uppercuts but even against the a prime Mayweather used to throw more shots because as he got older he boxed until

He was like any 40 maybe even 40 I think he’s I think he’s a year younger than me he was still very he had a good work rate Mayweather but later on he started to get more defensive and more killing the clock a little bit and just work

When he needed to because you have to when you get older Bernard Hopkins was the master at that he was such a fast work rate high early on and then when he got into his 40s he adapted his style because he slowed down but um they’re both really flashy though aren’t they

Watching all the bling yeah yeah what Mayweather and N mhamad yeah it would have been a great it would have been a great buildup it would have been a good fight while it lasted but I just think Mayweather was too much for him right next question then Prime David Haye

Versus Anthony Joshua who wins I think AJ is too big for him but good Prime dve yeah he is good very good explosive power fast Brave as you like gets in there really really Brave and he he may have got he may have got to Anthony Joshua may have caught with

Him and started cing but AJ’s a big lump and if you if you look at what AJ did to Klitschko all right Klitschko was 42 years old he’ been sat on the sofa for 18 months came out of retirement virtually to fight to fight AJ and still

Flattened him but he climbed off the canvas at Wembley Stadium in front of 79,000 people and um he got the win so when you look at that fight and when you look at David Hay against Klitschko Klitschko was just too big for him smothered him and leaned on him yeah so

As much as I think David Hay could iron out AJ I just think AJ beats um beats the hay maker just because he’s too big for him good question that’ be a good fight David Haye was supposed to fight Tyson Fury was he back in the day and

That fight never happened he got injured a couple of time shoulder than his bicep that have been a good fight looking forward to it’s all about timing at that that particular time David a might have been a handful for for fury because he got flattened by a guy called Cunningham

An old a Cruiserweight Steve Cunningham dropped him so yeah David a based on that would have flattened him potentially kept him down but that’s what boxing’s all about it’s all about timing so did you come out of boxing unscathed um so many don’t hope you did

Um I’m great CH yeah I that did you come out unscathed hope you did I mean I look great I feel great I did have a big bump my nose which I’ve talked about is’s now gone um had five operations ACL reconstruction two an operations nose operation cortisones in both my elbows

In my back in my neck so I’ve had my I’m not I Won’t Say I’m unscathed but I don’t know when he says did you come out on SC so many I don’t I just think mentally you never know how your brain’s going to be and impacts to the heads if

It’s going to catch up with you yeah but um don’t like to talk about I’ve got a really clean diet and I take Lion’s main mushrooms which is supposed to redevelop your neuro Pathways in your in your brain I just feel really really sharp and I think if you keep busy and you

You’ve got an active healthy lifestyle good diet I don’t think it’s going to catch up with you I really don’t some people are still boxing and they don’t sound like they can Str a sentence together and there’s Fighters that have been retired two or three years and they

Start slurring 10 years they reckon 10 years is like the time they say when you go into your slurring and um I’m 10 years retired sharp as a razor blade and still still doing it so I think I’m cool I think I did get away unscathed I’m glad

Of course you’re glad I’m your man I know I hate talking about this I don’t I don’t I know it I don’t I don’t like this question I’m think I think I’m fine I think I will be fine yeah it’s it’s a tough sport you take a lot of punches to

The head and it can go horribly wrong but um and let’s be honest I got hit with a lot of shots but to be honest I feel great and hopefully the stars are all aligned and I’ll be helping for the rest of my long life good I’m glad right

So that’s it for the questions all done for today all done and dtin thank you very much for sending the questions we’re obviously can’t get through all of them and if I did would be here all night because I don’t stop talking um I guide you well think I I stop and start

You’re a good director I like it I’m taking you out for lunch actually oh thank you we’ll give something to eat then we’ll go and get the kids perfect we’ll together take you out Friday as well she can have a little drinky poo get a glass of bubbles exactly I can’t

Believe drink I can’t drink just gives me a headache I had a pint of Moretti the other day that was okay but I can’t drink Guinness anymore and I only have one or two pints I’m done but I wake up in the morning I get a headache so I’m

Getting to the point now a clean body for you you’re not used to it I think I’m going to be tea total I think I’m moving forward I’m going to stop drinking yeah I don’t need to drink although I do like a shot of tequila especially that stuff there Don Julio

And that the one in that white bottle there you only have one though all night I pretty good little shot tequila so that’s it for another episode of FR on in thanks for tuning in don’t forget to subscribe and we’ll see you next week we certainly will