Former world champion boxer Carl Froch has raised eyebrows with his recent claims that the historic 1969 Moon landing was fabricated, adding to a series of controversial statements about scientific principles.
In an interview with The Action Network, Froch challenged the authenticity of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface.
“Interestingly, we haven’t been to the moon since and we can’t get there,” Froch told The Action Network, despite there being six subsequent successful Moon missions following Apollo 11.
The former WBC super-middleweight champion cited an alleged incident involving Neil Armstrong: “Neil Armstrong was asked by somebody to place his hand on the Holy Bible and Neil Armstrong is a deeply religious man. He was asked to place his hand on the Bible and to swear on the Holy Bible that he went and stepped foot on the moon. He wouldn’t do it.”
Froch claimed Armstrong refused a $5,000 charitable donation offer to swear on the Bible about the Moon landing, stating, “Now, for $5,000 to your charity… you would just do it.”
The boxer’s skepticism extended beyond the Moon landing to other scientific principles. He questioned the theory of gravity, evolution, and the heliocentric model of the solar system.
“NASA are funded by $63m per day and they tell us a lot of stories and a lot of things about black holes and distant galaxies,” Froch stated. “Every picture we’ve seen of Planet Earth is a CGI image.”
He also expressed doubt about Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity: “They say it’s gravity and holds everything to the Earth, so gravity has to be real but it’s a theory and has never been proven.”
The claims made by Froch contradict well-documented scientific evidence and historical records maintained by NASA and numerous international space agencies.
