The beef between Carl Froch and Anthony Joshua doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon.

Froch recently ‘exposed’ text messages from ‘AJ’ after the former heavyweight champion labelled him a ‘p***k’ in a game of word association.

Now ‘The Cobra’ has taken another swipe at the 34-year-old by saying he ‘quit’ in his loss to Andy Ruiz Jr and had his ‘soul taken’ from him that night.

Speaking to BestOnlinePokerSites the former supper-middleweight champion said:

“I’ve always said he’s a bit mentally fragile since losing to Ruiz when he got his soul took away from him that night let’s be honest.

He quit. It goes down as a technical knockout, that’s never happened to ‘The Cobra’ by the way, which I did tell him, ‘The Cobra’ don’t get knocked out. But he quit on his feet, whichever way you want to look at it he quit on his feet. I’m not going to hold it against him because he stayed with it and he came back.

He’s tried to be great again but he’s realised he’s not at the level, because every time he steps up to the level he gets asked a question and he gets beat.”

Ruiz caused one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight history when he handed Joshua his first defeat back in 2019. The Mexican-American was a late replacement after Jarrell Miller was pulled from the fight due to failed drug tests.

‘AJ’ had Ruiz down for the first time in his career in the third round but he beat the count and scored two knockdowns of his own before the bell.

Joshua would survive until the seventh where he was put on the canvas a further two times and eventually stopped by the referee. The Brit got his belts back in the rematch just six months later via a unanimous points decision.