Benn the Dark Destroyer tells Groves: I’m backing you to win
GEORGE GROVES’S blockbuster rematch with Carl Froch at Wembley on Saturday has fuelled comparisons with the Battle of Britain clashes of the Nineties neties between Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank. ubank. And Groves has revealed that t Benn has telephoned him m from Australia, where he e now lives, to say he expects his fellow Londoner to gain revenge over Froch — and to advise him on how to do it.
Groves said: ‘I couldn’t have been given this boost by anyone ne I admire more. Nigel has always been one of my heroes. The Dark Destroyer oyer was a perfect nickname for him. m. He was a warrior, never ducking anyone and always carrying the fight t to his opponents.
‘He wished me well and d said he is tipping me to win. He told d me to keep perfecting the game-plan n which knocked Froch down in the first round ound of the first fight and put me ahead on the scorecards before that pre premature stoppage — then to make sure I do don’t lose concentration. He said he’ll be w watching on Australian TV next Saturday, in the sunshine, his toes in the sand, enj enjoying a barbecue.’ Benn Benn, at 50 twice the age of Grov Groves, clearly sees something of h himself in the young cha challenger for Froch’s world su super-middleweight titles. Groves said: ‘Nigel was the tr truest of warriors — more so t than Carl. He sees himself as a warrior, but I suspect he w will run in the first half of t the fight in the false belief th that I will run out of steam the longer it goes. But I’ll knoc knock him out in the third.’