Exclusive - Froch tells Haye: 'Your broken toe didn't decide the fight'

Carl Froch has told talkSPORT that David Haye’s broken toe should not be used as an excuse for his defeat to Wladimir Klitschko.

Haye was fighting the Ukrainian in an attempt to unify the heavyweight division but lost on points after 12 rounds.

And Froch who beat Jean Pascal with a broken rib claimed that in the heat of the fight an injury is the least of your worries.

“Any broken bone is not ideal. To break your toe is going to hinder the way you’re walking or the way you’re moving around,” the WBC Super Middleweight Champion said.

“He’s talking about pushing off his right foot to land his big right hand which is correct, so ideally you don’t want to be fighting with any injury.

“But I’ve fought with injuries myself and you put them to the back of your mind. With the adrenaline on the night and when the occasion gets hold of you, you do forget about the injury.

“Only David knows how much of a problem the toe was and how much it was affecting him. I can’t say it’s a lame excuse because it’s not my toe that’s broken and it’s not me that’s fighting.

“When you do hear it for the first time you think someone is taking the pee. But if David is injured and he’s got a bad toe he’s just letting people know.

“I don’t think he’s using that as a full excuse. Everybody could see what was going off in there so maybe he shouldn’t have mentioned it but he just felt he’d let people know about it.

“You can see why the fans are almost thinking what is he talking about, why has he even mentioned it. I can see that side of it. I don’t think that was a deciding factor in the outcome of the fight.”