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Ebury Press has acquired the rights for the autobiography of super-middleweight boxing champion, Carl Froch.
Andrew Goodfellow, senior publishing director at Ebury Press bought world rights directly from Froch. The book, provisionally titled The Cobra, will be published in July this year. It will tell of how Froch was brought up on a Nottingham estate and got into boxing at the age of nine, then as a teenager he went off the rails.
He has since become Britain’s world champion boxer at super-middleweight, unbeaten in 26 fights. He is also one win into the new Super Six Boxing Classic - a series which pits the best six fighters in the world against each other in a round-robin tournament to be fought over the next year and a half.
Goodfellow said: "Carl is complete one-off, he has a thrilling confrontational style in the ring and has always walked his own path outside it. His fanatical hometown following will ensure this is a success, but his ever growing profile – he really is the British boxer to watch this year - and the amazing back story he has to tell will mean that this has a real chance of being so much more."
Ebury Press previously published boxer Ricky Hatton's autobiography, The Hitman: My Story.