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Boxing legend Carl Froch does not believe astronauts landed on the moon and is sceptical the earth is round.

The former world champion, from Burton Joyce, said he began a debate with his brother, Lee, about two years ago.

Carl, 42, who quit the ring in 2015, said he started to explore the possibility the earth is flat and not round and began to question civilisation.

He said: "Until someone can get a picture of earth on their iPhone I am not convinced. I can't get a signal in Calverton. They (astronauts) had a conversation with Nixon in space."

Carl expressed his flat earth views during a podcast, which was picked up by the Daily Star and splashed across their front page.

But he wanted to explain where his views came from and opened up to Nottinghamshire Live.

(Image: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire)

He said: "It was about two years ago. Lee was inundating me with stuff from the internet. He is a flat-earther. Every time I tried to debunk it he then proved me wrong.

"I was sending pics from space to him and then he would show me harnesses and a green screen."

Carl said as a child his favourite book was one on astronomy and he even has a telescope in his bedroom to look up at the moon.

The former WBC and IBF super-middleweight champion, who opened bar Alto in Nottingham city centre, said: "I need categoric evidence. I am sitting on the fence.

"I put it out there to challenge people to prove me wrong. I want proof we live on a spinning ball with water.

"We live in a society where we are controlled and dictated. We live in a world where we are told what to do.

"We are told what to eat, what to drive, we are being controlled by our government. Do they always tell us the truth?"

He said if the world is flat it could prove there is "a creator."

On the Pound for Pound podcast, he said: "There’s no proof of the Earth’s curvature and this fake space agency Nasa use CGI images and every one is different. I’m looking at them thinking, ‘Hang on a minute, they’re like cartoons.’

“When someone like Richard Branson goes up there and starts doing chartered flights... and you can look back on Earth and see the Earth’s curvature, I’ll believe the Earth is a globe.”

The theory the earth was flat was thought to have been debunked in the Middle Ages, but in recent years, the idea has seen a resurgence in believers.

Carl joins a number of other famous people to come out in support of the idea that the Earth isn't round, alongside cricketer Freddie Flintoff and rapper B.o.B.