By Edward Chaykovsky

38-year-old former super middleweight champion Carl Froch has yet to make up his mind regarding his retirement. Froch has been inactive since last May's knockout victory over George Groves before 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.

Froch vacated both of his super middleweight titles, under the WBA and IBF, earlier this year.

Olympic gold medal winner James DeGale picked up the vacant IBF belt in May with a twelve round decision win over Andre Dirrell, who nearly derailed Froch several years ago in the Super Six tournament.

For months, Froch had expressed the desire to potential face middleweight king Gennady Golovkin - if The Cobra decided to fight again. Now it appears that DeGale is the preferred choice.

"I think it's James DeGale or it's Gennady Golovkin," Froch said to reporter Steve Bunce. "Probably in that order. If they called up tomorrow and said we've got the DeGale fight and we think it will sell Wembley, and they start being reasonable with the split they're looking for then maybe."

"But all of a sudden now he's champion, he's getting a bit unrealistic about how much he's worth and I don't need to be listening to that silly talk and bowing down to anyone who thinks they may be the next big thing.

"At the end of the day people get excited when I box and I always bring a big following with me because I always leave it all in the ring. So it all needs to be right before I accept any fight."