By Mark Vester
Undisputed super middleweight champ Joe Calzaghe was steaming when informed that Nazim Richardson, trainer of Bernard Hopkins, said a potential showdown with the winner of the Jan. 19 Roy Jones Jr.-Felix Trinidad bout, would be a bigger fight for Hopkins to take.
Calzaghe tells Sportinglife that Hopkins is once again avoiding a potential showdown, and looking for the easy way out by taking an easier fight with Jones or Trinidad.
"I feel quite angry that they've said fighting the winner of Roy Jones v Felix Trinidad is bigger than fighting me," Calzaghe said. "Jones has been knocked out three times and Trinidad keeps retiring, so how they think that's a bigger fight I don't know. I think Hopkins' trainer is just scared his man will lose."
"I throw a thousand punches a fight. I'm younger and fitter and I can't see how he can possibly beat me. I think his people know that. He (Hopkins) chickened out of a fight with me six years ago and it seems he's doing it again."
Send News Tips and Comments To Mark Vester @ boxingscene@hotmail.com
