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Froch hints at retirement after Kessler

ESPN staff
August 30, 2012
Carl Froch lost to Mikkel Kessler in April 2010 © Getty Images
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IBF super-middleweight champion Carl Froch has sketched out a plan for his retirement from boxing, revealing his aim is to defeat Mikkel Kessler and then hang up his gloves.

Froch, 35, suffered the first of his two professional defeats against Kessler in April 2010, but has maintained he was on the wrong end of a hometown decision in Denmark, and wants the chance to settle the score in his native Nottingham late next year.

"That's a fight that should really be at home, maybe at Nottingham Forest's City Ground, and that would be the pinnacle for me," Froch told the Sun. "To finish my career on a high in my home town, that would be unbelievable."

First Froch has two confirmed bouts to navigate: a first defence of his IBF crown against Yusaf Mack in Nottingham on November 17; then a rematch with Lucian Bute, who he blew away inside five rounds in May.

After those bouts, he will step up his hunt for a Kessler clash. The 33-year-old went up to light-heavyweight in his most recent clash, stopping Allan Green in savage fashion three months ago.

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