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Froch: I’m a big Crolla fan
- Updated: September 20, 2016
Anthony Crolla faces another tough world title defence on Saturday, live on Sky Sports, and Carl Froch is not only impressed but believes there are few more popular fighters in Britain today…
Like most people who watch boxing, I have become a big fan of Anthony Crolla.
He hasn’t exactly come from nowhere, but he was a decent domestic or European fighter who we hoped would get a world title challenge and I wasn’t sure he would win it.
But from the moment of that awful attack two years ago, he has turned into something very special. He is without doubt one of the most popular fighters we have got here in Britain and he thoroughly deserves to be.
No one has got a bad word to say about Ant. He is a really good lad and sometimes when you meet boxers coming up, they are a bit arrogant, full of themselves, but not this lad. He is just a nice guy and it shows that, sometimes, good guys do win.
We know he had his ups and downs in the ring, but I just think it was that life-changing experience when he got attacked after chasing a burglar.
Only he and maybe even Joe Gallagher will know how that changed his approach and made him train more seriously. Having almost lost his life, maybe he realised he had the chance to change his life. From that point on, Crolla has been a new man.
If we had been talking about this …
