{"id":34335,"date":"2014-01-24T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=34335"},"modified":"2014-01-24T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:22:08","slug":"george-groves-carl-froch-war-of-words-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=34335","title":{"rendered":"George Groves &#8211; Carl Froch: War of Words &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=34335\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=34335\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2487\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxingringheader\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/boxingringheader1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Super middleweight contender \u2018Saint\u2019 George Groves has announced that he turned down an \u2018unsatisfactory\u2019 offer to fight heated rival Carl Froch, but insists it is a fight he wants to take place sooner rather than later. \u201cI am unsure why Carl Froch has today released a statement implying I do not wish to take the fight, as I was under the impression we are still in negotiations,\u201d said Groves. \u201cThe Matchroom offer in question came with many stipulations and options I felt were unsatisfactory. I am currently awaiting an improved offer from his promoter, as well as speaking to other promoters interested in promoting this fight.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I didn\u2019t want to fight Carl Froch then I wouldn\u2019t have invested so much time and money into appealing with the IBF over the dubious outcome of the first fight. And I await the outcome of that hearing in the very near future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super middleweight contender \u2018Saint\u2019 George Groves has announced that he turned down an \u2018unsatisfactory\u2019 offer to fight heated rival Carl Froch, but insists it is a fight he wants to take place sooner rather than later. \u201cI am unsure why Carl Froch has today released a statement implying I do not wish to take the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9558],"class_list":["post-34335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-george-groves-carl-froch-war-of-words-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34335"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}