Tony Bellew has opened the door to an exhibition with Carl Froch and insists ‘The Cobra’ would not make it to the final bell.
Bellew and Froch, who were a weight class apart at one point in their decorated careers, previously sparred each other with Froch admitting that the Liverpudlian dropped him.
The pair have remained good friends ever since, although former super middleweight champion, Froch, who has been retired since knocking George Groves out at Wembley Stadium in 2014, recently claimed he would be too much for the ‘Bomber’ if they had a fight now.
“If we were to have a fight at cruiserweight right now, I’d absolutely hammer him I think,” the 46-year-old said on his YouTube channel Froch On Fighting.
“I’m in shape. I think he’s lost a bit of shape.
“He’d argue otherwise.”
Bellew hung up his gloves after suffering a knockout defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in a bid to win the undisputed cruiserweight championship in 2018.
The former cruiserweight world champion, who recorded successive stoppage wins over David Haye, says he would entertain a bout with Froch for the right price, but not at Everton’s Goodsion Park, the stadium which staged his world title victory over Ilunga Makabu in 2016.
“Was Carl Froch really joking?” the 41-year-old told SpinBet.
“You really never know with Carl.
“I don’t know what the price would be to get me in the ring to fight Carl in an exhibition, but it wouldn’t go the distance I can tell you that much.
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“Never say never. It wouldn’t take place at Goodison Park, but Carl wouldn’t see the final bell let me tell you that.
“If somebody offers me the right price, then I’m sorry to say that I am fighting again.
“Everybody has a price and everyone on social media can say what they like but if everybody needs to get paid and if they offer the right price then you do it and get on it.”
