‘The best punch I have thrown in my life’

And just like that, it was all over. All those months of debating, arguing and predicting. The taunting, training and trash-talking. All put to bed with one devastating swoop of Carl Froch’s right hand.

‘The best punch I have thrown in my life’

There were two minutes and 34 seconds of the eighth round gone in what was the biggest all-British fight since the war, arguably of all time.

It was some 189 days since another of Froch’s punches started all of these questions, up in Manchester, when referee Howard Foster so controversially stepped in.

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