Carl The Cobra Froch retired last week, ending a storied - and likely hall of fame - career. The Cobra, one of my favorites, was not a man who felt the need to stray too far from the looks, colors and templates that he was comfortable in. He liked black, he liked silver. He would tolerate red and white, and would allow for rare splashes of other colors as a special treat.



After turning pro in 2002, he wore the same trunks, with minimal changes, for the majority of his first 2 or 3 years (comprising roughly 15 fights):

Starting in 2005, he switched up, frequently wearing these black and silver trunks (below against Robin Reid in ‘07):

During this 2005-2007 time frame, Froch also sported a silver with black trim look (below against Dale Westerman in 2006). This is the only trunk set I’m aware of in Froch’s entire career where he doesn’t have “Cobra” along the waistband.



Starting in 2008, Froch became a regular on premium cable, and, over the final 6 years of his career, rotated a few templates. Against Jean Pascal in ‘08 and Jermaine Taylor in ‘09, he wore black trunks with the Union Jack (sans blue) starting on the right front leg and wrapping three quarters around - stopping on the back left leg. The front left was essentially blank save for sponsors or commission insignias.



He broke out Lonsdale trunks featuring a bulldog on the front and cobras on the back for the Super 6 Tournament. The Super 6 tournament started in late 2009 and finished in 2011, which included 5 fights for Froch (Andre Dirrell, Mikkel Kessler, Arthur Abraham, Glen Johnson and Andre Ward). He wore the Bulldog trunks for each fight (below, a couple of shots against Dirrell and Abraham, respectively):

One interesting element to the bulldog trunks is that they had an unexpected cobra design across the back along with a pre-cursor to Carl Froch’s logo (vs Andre Ward in 2011):

Against Lucien Bute in 2012, Froch switched up his look and updated his logo:



These trunks prominently featured his logo across the back:

He added a bit more silver along the waistband,added silver panels on the sides and changed his logo color from silver to white, but the template was otherwise largely unchanged in his 2012 fight against Yusef Mack:

In 2013 he rematched Mikkel Kessler with a colorful set (for Froch standards). Still primarily black, but with red and silver trim along the waistband and side, along with red-white and blue Union Jack side panels.



Froch famously capped his career with two victories against George Groves. He wore nearly identical trunks for both the first and the second fight ( 2013 and 2014 below, respectively)- although you can see below that in the second fight there is some additional red trim along the bottom of the trunks not present in the set used in the first.



Respect box.

