Anthony Joshua has posted an Instagram story about Carl Froch, seemingly in reply to his recent comments.
The retired former super-middleweight world champion last week responded to SunSport’s top ten UK pound-for-pound list of the last 30 years, in which AJ was ranked tenth while he missed out.
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Froch joined iFL TV’s Kugan Cassius on Instagram Live and said: “Not putting me in the top ten is bad news, and I don’t know how you can have AJ in the top ten.
“I’m not giving AJ stick, but he got knocked out by a little fat kid from Mexico. I’ve never been knocked out in my life, amateur or professional.
“AJ got beat up by a fat Mexican who, we don’t even know how good the Mexican is because he’s not done anything really. And they’ve got him in the top ten.”
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Froch subsquently clarified on his own ‘Froch on Fighting’ podcast: “People need to not get misunderstood by the way I talk.
“I talk from the heart, I tell it how it is, I was having a go at this top ten list.
“But that’s all it was, I wanted to clear that up. Anthony Joshua, I’m a massive fan of his, he knows I am.
“But sometimes you just don’t know, he’ll read something and he’ll think, ‘What’s Froch talking about now? What b****cks is he talking now?’
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“I’ve actually had four messages off him last night on WhatsApp at midnight, five past midnight, ten past midnight.
“You know when you read your WhatsApp and it says, ‘This message has been deleted.’ I’ve had four of them.
“I’m thinking, ‘What has he wrote there and then deleted and changed his mind?’
“So AJ, if you listen to this, come on mate, send me a message or pick the phone up and give me a ring because you know I’ve got nothing but love for you.”
But now Joshua has put out his first public post on the matter.
AJ uploaded a short clip of someone watching an old iFL TV interview with Froch from before his rematch with Ruiz Jr in December.
Froch was speaking about how he doubted Joshua’s ‘man on a mission’ mindset heading into the fight and then the person watching the clip abruptly slammed the laptop shut and said: “Oi, shut up blud.”
You can view Joshua’s response in the player at the top of the page.