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Carl Froch, known as 'the Cobra', was brought up tough on a Nottingham housing estate. He started boxing at just nine years old, but as a teenager he gave it up and his life became an aimless round of dead end jobs and pub fights. However, his family wouldn't let him waste his life - they knew that what he needed was to get back in the ring. Luckily they succeeded, and Carl has never looked back.
Carl Froch is now Britain's world champion at super-middleweight with having won 26 fights (with 20 KOs). His greatest fights have already gone down in boxing history, culminating in his defeat of the American Jermain Taylor in defence of WBC title in April in 2009 and the boxing masterclass delivered against Arthur Abraham at the end of 2010. Knocked down for the first time in his career by Taylor, he was behind on everyone's scorecard but his own, until, with just 14 seconds of the fight to go, he came back in spectacular fashion with a stunning knock out.
Carl Froch's revealing story from inside the high-stakes world of boxing pulls no punches, from his lost years through to his ascent to World Champion.
He is currently a contender for the title in the innovative new Super Six Boxing Classic, which pits the best six fighters in the world against each other in a round-robin tournament. With two wins and a close but disappointing loss to Mikkel Kessler, The Cobra follows Carl every step of the way as he prepares for the fight of his life - the most anticipated showdown of the tournament against Glen Johnson in May. Massive and unmissable, this fight will take Carl to a new high.
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There wasn't a dull moment in the book, a lot like Carl's fights! Go read it.
Interesting background on Carl's upbringing, family with a picture painted of the area he grew up in. I felt Carl was quite honest in the book overall. It's a nice read and not too life changing or controversial. Of course we would expect nothing less in an autobiography of a sports star at the height of his career.
Carl gives some very insightful comments about the current state of boxing both as a sport generally and the lack of support from the media in Britain. Of course this has directly affected Carl but he puts an intelligent case forward.
As regards to the fight that never happened (Froch V's Calzaghe) it certainly would have been an interesting contest but Carl's opinion is repeated a few times which sounds a bit repetitive while there are a couple of references to Robin Reid and Carl's view that Joe won on a bad judges scorecard. Carl then goes on to say when he faced Reid he'd never been hit so hard in his career which is another little dig.
I quite expected a couple of digs at Calzaghe and here comes in some of the issues with the book. The repetition sounds unprofessional almost like being in a room with a drunk man that wants to underline a point he feels strongly about.
I am not a buff at grammar and spelling but I have never seen such a high amount of appalling spelling mistakes and bad grammar as I did in this book. It really let's it down at times and I would expect more. I find it hard to believe it has been proofread even spellchecker would pick most of this up.
Carl Froch delivered his part of the deal but the writer Niall Hickman should get on the case now stop the print run and sort it out with the above issues (including the issues of some repeating of points because Niall wrote this book not Carl). Also just for the record it is a better read than Joe Calzaghe's autobiography 'No Ordinary Joe'. If the fight was made though, in my opinion, it would have gone to the valleys!
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