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Bernard Hopkins wants fight with Carl Froch

Carl Froch is "looking for an easy way out", according to American fighter Bernard Hopkins.

American boxer Bernard Hopkins has said that Carl Froch is "looking for an easy way out" after the Englishman dismissed talk of a fight between the pair.

Froch vacated his IBF belt last week as he decides on his future having been forced to pull out of a fight with Julio Chavez Jr due to an elbow injury.

Reports suggested that a fight between Froch and Hopkins was on the cards, but the 37-year-old described it as a "lose-lose situation".

Hopkins told boxingscene.com: "He says it's a lose-lose situation, but he's in a lose-lose situation if he fights somebody that we know he can beat. I don't think anybody, at least I think, is picking Chavez to beat Carl Froch. Carl Froch is looking for an easy way out.

"Somebody got in his ear and said: 'Don't underestimate Bernard, because Bernard is always good at redeeming himself after a loss and coming back strong'. I'm going to be dead serious, I called his bluff."

Froch has not fought since he beat George Groves in May.

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