Groves will \'run for his life\' vows Froch

Carl Froch has insisted challenger George Groves will "run for his life" when the British rivals meet in a world super-middleweight title bout in Manchester on Saturday. Thursday's joint news conference saw the pair exchange verbal taunts with Froch, the World Boxing Association (WBA) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) champion, promising to "annihilate" Groves for a lack of respect. "What you've been saying for 10 weeks is pathetic. You've embarrassed yourself and on Saturday night I'm going to put it right," Froch told Groves. "When you have mixed with the quality of opponents I have been in with for so long you do not get scared by an opponent like George Groves. "My experience at the top level, my punching power and George's lack of ability to take a punch is going to be the reason why he's going to come to the ring and run for his life and he's not going to stand and fight." Froch was particularly unimpressed as Groves, unusually, chose Thursday's news conference to outline a detailed 'game-plan' for Saturday's bout, which has now become something of a grudge match. "I'm going to come out in the centre of the ring and meet you in the first round with the jab then hit you with two right hands just to let you know I'm there," Groves told his fellow Englishman. "In the second round I'm going to do the same -- I'm going to win the jab exchanges and hit him with more right hands. "In the third round I'm going to come out and push him onto the back foot - then you're going to have to wait and see what's coming next," added Groves, widely regarded as the underdog on Saturday despite his 19-fight unbeaten record as a professional, the last three by knockout. "I've never been knocked out but Carl says I'm chinny. Carl says he's got one-punch knockout power but he doesn't really knock out too many people -- he's contradicted himself so often it's hard to follow," said Groves. "Carl is fighting against himself psychologically and he is losing. I'm sitting here answering his questions and he's falling apart. He's happy to rant and rave and call me disrespectful but when I call him on it he doesn't want to get into a debate." Source: AFP