Former world super middleweight champion Carl Froch has faced some of boxing's best operators during his 12 years as a professional.
Andre Ward, Mikkel Kessler and George Groves are just some of the names Froch has faced, but not one of these three fighters was picked by Froch as the most challenging opponent of his career.
Instead, Froch picked Ghana's Charles Adamu as the opponent which posed the biggest challenge when they met in Nottingham 20 years ago.
“Marcus McDonnell was the referee, and it was 116-113. It was one of them fights – in my first 12 rounder – where by about round seven I was absolutely blowing," Froch said on his YouTube channel, Froch on Fighting.
“I was thinking, this guy, I can’t hurt him; I’d hit him with my best shots and he just stood there. He was a solid, solid geezer from Ghana, solid as a rock, like a tree actually, a big oak tree.
“I was hitting him with shots and he just wouldn’t budge. I was tiring, starting to doubt myself, he was coming on strong as well and, in round eight, Rob McCracken said to me ‘go back at him; when you’ve done your attack, go again.’
“I threw a double-jab right-hand after I’d already attacked him and dropped him, so he went down on one knee. It was like the Rocky 4 moment when he cut Ivan Drago.”
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