Carl Froch produced a comeback for the ages to retain his WBC Super-middleweight title with a last-round stoppage of former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor in Connecticut on Saturday night.
Englishman Froch got off the canvas in the third round and looked to have been outpointed over the following rounds, trailing on two of the three judge's scorecards by 106-102 before launching a spectacular all-out assault on the American in the 12th round.
That was when he first knocked the former middleweight kingpin to the canvas with Taylor beating the count by the narrowest of margins and Froch then unleashed another barrage of furious punches that forced referee Michael Ortega to stop the fight with 14 seconds of the contest remaining.