Robert McCracken believes Carl Froch should get the recognition he deserves after stopping Jermain Taylor in dramatic style.
British fighter should now get recognition he deserves
Robert McCracken believes Carl Froch should get the recognition he deserves after stopping Jermain Taylor in dramatic style on Saturday night.
The Nottingham fighter made a successful first defence of the WBC super-middleweight title by forcing a 12th-round stoppage of the former middleweight champion with just 14 seconds left in the fight.
It subsequently emerged that Froch was behind by four rounds on two of the judges scorecards after he was knocked to the canvas in the third round.
And trainer McCracken believes the victory should guarantee his boxer's name in the history of the sport - a name that has hitherto eluded most outside the fight game.
"I say this all the time," McCracken said. "We won't get a Carl Froch again for a long, long time.
Phenomenal
"He's a special fighter and he needs to be embraced in Britain because it's a bit of a joke really.
"Carl Froch hasn't been acknowledged but surely he'll be acknowledged now."
It was the 20th knockout win in his unbeaten 24-fight career and McCracken added: "I was a kid and I used to watch the Tommy Hearns fights but this kid punches every bit as hard as any of them.
"His knockout record is phenomenal and anyone who has gone the distance with him has either tried to survive or has not tried to win.
"He's a phenomenal athlete."
And he believes Froch can only get better after overcoming an unusual bout of nerves before his first fight in the United States.
Wide open
"I noticed he was a little bit different tonight," McCracken noted. "The nerves kind of got to him a little bit in the changing room and he wasn't himself.
"I don't think anybody would be coming over here and fighting Jermain Taylor. He's a top, top fighter who beat (Bernard) Hopkins twice so he was a little bit nervous.
"He started out and he was not on it, he was too slow to react. Taylor started great, good jab and Carl left himself open wide a couple of times and he paid the price.
"But Carl Froch is a special fighter, the only fighter I've ever come across that you just know he's going to win, be it in sparring or in a fight, you know he's going to get them.
"It could be the last round, it could be the first round; he's a phenomenal puncher."
