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Haye is set to retire - Froch

ESPN staff
August 23, 2011
Carl Froch is preparing to face Andre Ward © Getty Images
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WBC super-middleweight champion Carl Froch does not expect British heavyweight David Haye to fight again.

Haye, 30, has always insisted he would retire from the sport on his 31st birthday in October, although the one-sided manner of his recent defeat to Wladimir Klitschko had led him to hint that he could fight past that date to avenge the loss.

However Froch, who met up with Haye while the two were on holiday in Jamaica, got the impression from the time they spent together that the Bermondsey man is preparing to hang up his gloves for good.

"I had a nice five-hour tour of the island with David Haye. I don't think he is going to fight on," Froch told the Daily Star. "He didn't give me a definitive answer but listening to him, it doesn't really sound like it. He wanted to go out on a better note.

"Whether he will fight again, personally I don't think he will."

Froch is preparing for an important fight of his own at the end of October, as he takes on American Andre Ward in the final of the Super Six tournament in Atlantic City. The Nottingham-born fighter might be three years older than Haye, but he has no immediate plans of his own to retire - with a unification fight against IBF strapholder Lucien Bute in his sights if he can get past Ward.

"[Haye] is younger than me so it would make sense for me to announce my retirement - but I've got plans," Froch said.

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