By Mark Vester
Super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe plans to make Roy Jones Jr. pay for years of trash-talking and negative comments. The two collide on November 8 at New York's Madison Square Garden. Calzaghe says that he can't wait for the press tour so he can look Jones right in the face. He plans to intimidate Jones when the words start flying to hype their fight.
"I can't wait to see Jones in the flesh and look him in the eyes," said Calzaghe to The Mirror Sport. "I've been listening to him bad-mouth me for about six or seven years. When we get to New York and Los Angeles I will get the chance to put him on his back foot and shut him up. This is the start of the fight for me and when I get in the ring I will make him pay for all the bad comments he's ever made."
Jones told the paper that he's very happy that Calzaghe agreed to fight him, but he knows the Welsh champion will regret the decision.
"I'm pleased Joe has finally agreed to fight me but I know that he will regret it," said Jones. "This is a fight between two great champions and it is a fight that all boxing fans deserve. Joe is a great British fighter but I'm a great American fighter and that will be the difference."
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