We sometimes hear about conspiracy theories and perhaps we are even drawn into the thought that they could be true. Some of them are believable but others, not so much.
On occasion, we even hear about somebody famous who supports one of those conspiracy theories, and a former British boxer, Carl Froch is one of them. He competed actively from 2002 until 2014 and since then, he has been a boxing commentator and analyst.
He also recently opened up about his belief in some wild conspiracy theories and the Internet has been buzzing ever since. He appeared on the Pound for Pound podcast with Jake Wood and Spencer Oliver in December 2022 and said that he believes the earth is flat. He also said that NASA is ‘fake’
The quote more specifically from the former boxer is: “The Earth is flat, 100 percent.
“There’s no proof of the Earth’s curvature, and this fake space agency, NASA, uses CGI images, and everyone 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.”
He then appeared on the Macklin’s Take podcast, where he confirmed his belief. When he was asked if he thought the world was really flat, he said: “Here’s the problem. I’ve tried to prove – and I challenge anybody listening to this – prove that the Earth is spherical. Prove that it’s round. Prove that it’s actually a globe.”
Macklin replied: “All I know is that when Michael Conlan was boxing in Brisbane, we left LA and flew west and 12 hours later we were in Brisbane.
“So I don’t see how the world can possibly be flat.”
The ex-boxer replied: “I could get a piece of A4 paper, write down the center of the flat Earth – which is the North Pole – and write down the ice wall – which is right down the south side – all the way around the circumference of the flat Earth, and you would circumnavigate and you’d get from where you just said [L.A.] to where you just said [Brisbane] in the same flight path.”
Froch also made some waves when he said that NASA had faked the moon landings, even though Neil Armstrong is said to be the first person to walk on the moon in 1969.
He said: “The equipment they used to get up there was as powerful as a Zedec Spectrum, which probably wasn’t that powerful.
“It was a computer when I was a kid. We can’t get there now, and I think everything we’ve been told about the Moon landing [is made up].
“When you look at all of the evidence, all the footage, and the fact that they lost all of the telemetric data that tells you that they went to the Moon then I would say that we did not go to the Moon.
“Man did not walk on the Moon. That was a big f***ing lie.”
