Boxing
Carl Froch believes one of Chris Eubank Jr. and Liam Smith may have to retire
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Carl Froch believes that Chris Eubank Jr. may face retirement after losing to Liam Smith, but believes there could be a huge fight on the cards for the victor.
The pair put months of bad blood behind them after Smith delivered a brutal fourth-round stoppage in Manchester on Saturday night, and after the fight they both suggested that a rematch could be made.
Former super middleweight champion Froch suggested that Smith may look to bow out of the sport with a huge title fight before stepping away at the age of 34.
"I think what he might be looking at now may be just getting some money in the bank at the end of his career,” he told Sky Sports .
“A [Gennadiy] Golovkin fight whether or not he's still fighting, a big name, filling this place, what an amazing atmosphere it was.
"Since Amir Khan-Kell Brook I haven't felt that kind of anticipation and atmosphere. So he deserves another big fight at least and I don't think it needs to be for a world title. I think it just needs to be a big name."
Of Eubank, he suggested that he may have nowhere to go next.
"I don't know how he's done the weight or if it's a problem for him, but at 33 years old, middleweight may not be for him. Where does he go from here? That could be curtains on his career. I don't want to say he should retire now. It was a bad defeat," Froch added.
"Where does he go now? Middleweight or super-middleweight? Regardless of the weight, I don't think we should take away from what a magnificent performance it was from Liam Smith.
"He took his time from round one, he won round one and round two on my card, bit of a bad round three. Liam Smith, I thought he had a great start and he was landing more punches and he was putting Chris Eubank on his back foot and controlling and dictating the pace round the ring.
"Then when he started to land shots, it was fight over."
