Jermain Taylor has told Joe Calzaghe he will not fight him in Wales.
The American,who faces Cory Spinks next Sat insists a bout between the two will only happen if Calzaghe travels to the USA
Taylor told Wales on Sunday "Calzaghe is a great fighter and $6m will open my ears. But he called me out,so he'll have to come to me."
I dont think Joe will do it,Frank wont let him
Taylor is a Middleweight, Im sick of JC fighting small guys.
If JC fights and beats Taylor, so what?? he beat another blown up middleweight. Whats the point?
Frank the wank strikes again
Lol, i think Taylor is a legit opponent, i personally would love to see Joe Fight Chad Dawson,
Think Dawson could be somthing real special.
Money Talkes. From my pure boxing point of veiw, Taylor is not Credible. I have far more respect for Joe if he stepped up to Light Heavy and Challenged Clinton Woods. Has JC ever picked on anyone his own size?? I Like Joe as a fighter but he is promoted by a moron.
taylor stands at about 6ft 1". at super middleweight he would have a slight size advantage over joe.
Taylor is a Middleweight, Im sick of JC fighting small guys.
If JC fights and beats Taylor, so what?? he beat another blown up middleweight. Whats the point?
Frank the wank strikes again
let me guess, he should fight froch instead.
Who is the better option then my friend? Froch? Who hasnt fought any particularly credible fighters either?
Kessler? Whose manager seems to be trying to play hard-ball with Calzaghe, who still might fight Calzaghe if the Taylor fight falls through and who isnt worth anywhere near as much money as Taylor?
Money Talkes. From my pure boxing point of veiw, Taylor is not Credible. I have far more respect for Joe if he stepped up to Light Heavy and Challenged Clinton Woods. Has JC ever picked on anyone his own size?? I Like Joe as a fighter but he is promoted by a moron.
Who is the better option then my friend? Froch? Who hasnt fought any particularly credible fighters either?
Kessler? Whose manager seems to be trying to play hard-ball with Calzaghe, who still might fight Calzaghe if the Taylor fight falls through and who isnt worth anywhere near as much money as Taylor?
Taylor is a Middleweight, Im sick of JC fighting small guys.
If JC fights and beats Taylor, so what?? he beat another blown up middleweight. Whats the point?
Frank the wank strikes again
Good post. I like Hatton more cuz hes @ least got the balls to move up in weight and fight here where the real boxing takes place.
Manfredo stoppage was sooo suspect.
What was suspect about it?
You're pretty new, so you may not have been around. So allow me to repeat some of the things I said at the time:
The irony of this ridiculous post is that it actually is rooted in some truth. Manfredo probably does deserve a rematch (of course, he wont get one, quite rightly), not because of a competetive bout or an unfair decision but because of a very premature stoppage and he can go throughout his career claiming that. And people can avoid Calzaghe claiming that he is a protected fighter. All because the ref stopped the fight anywhere between 10 seconds (Calzaghe was going to start scoring as soon as Manfredo got his hands away from his head and started ducking down) to a round early.
And people claim that Calzaghe is protected, that stoppage has done nothing whatsoever but hurt him.
Like I've said since the fight, the premature stoppage hurt Calzaghe way more than anyone else. People want ridiculous money to fight in the UK now, through fear of the same thing happened. Its a good excuse, cos they probably all know that Calzaghe is a superior boxer to them now anyway and this is a good way of getting out of it. This is backed up by the fact that none of these guys ever approach Calzaghe with an offer, they just either shout about him, reject his offers, or make an equally unrealistic counter-offer.
This is why I have much more respect for Ricky Hatton than Calzone...
Hatton is at least showing that he is a world champion,as opposed to the good 'local' fighter Calzone.
Folks,read my lips....Calzone is never gonna fight in the U.S.A...in fact,why should he?..when 35,000 fools will pay to see him fight a re-match with Manfredo?...or some other like opponent.
A big fish in a little pond...and he is obviously happy with being that.So who are we to question someone's happiness?
Good post. I like Hatton more cuz hes @ least got the balls to move up in weight and fight here where the real boxing takes place.
Manfredo stoppage was sooo suspect.
grow up you moron. I'd bet my house that you picked lacy to ko calzaghe. the anti-british posts on this forum are becoming a joke.
Its cuz your brit refs are taking loot. I never liked lacy...i remember the 1st time i saw him fight i was recording it cuz i cap all good fighters . After like 4 rounds of 1st seeing Lacy i shut the recorder off. I never do that. Never liked Lacy.
So why cant you answer whos better on his resume than Sheika? Byron Mitchell? GAHAHA :owned:
Blind follower. Ya'll are soooo desperate for a champ.
Yar i said Sheika was the best he ever fought. Who was better? A over hyped olympian or a old ass Eubanks? Brewer...gahaha
grow up you moron. I'd bet my house that you picked lacy to ko calzaghe. the anti-british posts on this forum are becoming a joke.
Has anyone made an offer for Calzaghe to fight in the US? Anyone?
Are the Danes really criticising another fighter for staying at home?
Did someone really say that Omar Sheika is the best opponent Calzaghe has fought?
I can only assume somebody snuck some mushrooms into my lunch, as that shit's just fucked up.
Yar i said Sheika was the best he ever fought. Who was better? A over hyped olympian or a old ass Eubanks? Brewer...gahaha
Answer me this. Why are people who pay £50 to see Calzaghe fight Manfredo (the likes of which he's only really fought once), Lacy or Bika non-stop until the match is finished fools and the people who pay $10,000 to see PBF run around the ring against DLH arent?
This is why I have much more respect for Ricky Hatton than Calzone...
Hatton is at least showing that he is a world champion,as opposed to the good 'local' fighter Calzone.
Folks,read my lips....Calzone is never gonna fight in the U.S.A...in fact,why should he?..when 35,000 fools will pay to see him fight a re-match with Manfredo?...or some other like opponent.
A big fish in a little pond...and he is obviously happy with being that.So who are we to question someone's happiness?
Has anyone made an offer for Calzaghe to fight in the US? Anyone?
Are the Danes really criticising another fighter for staying at home?
Did someone really say that Omar Sheika is the best opponent Calzaghe has fought?
I can only assume somebody snuck some mushrooms into my lunch, as that shit's just fucked up.
As far as I'm aware, he's never had a particularly fair or worthy offer made to go and fight in the US. I would consider $6m for Taylor in the US (as long as its not in Taylor's backyard) to be reasonably fair, but as neither Warren nor Calzaghe has responded to it yet...we cant say that he wont accept it.
Don't lump us all in one basket. Many of us like Joe but he won't acknowledge Kessler, and Taylor won't come to England and Joe won't fight in the States - so this whole argument is moot.
ok i should have put some americans and also danes he does acknowledge kessler but in my opinion Joe wants to make a point to the american fight fans by beating a big name and kessler isn't really that overthere. I don't know why Joe won't go to america and fight because he has said he wants too maybe its the warren factor or maybe american promoters just don't make him offers good enough. After all warren is a uk promotr who puts shows on in the uk warren made an offer for the fight to happen in the uk maybe taylors ppl should make Joe a good offer to take the fight in the US.
Yeah he got straight back up and knocked Mitchell into next week.
You say Calzaghe's opponents are B and C level fighters but doesn't the fact the Joe beat them all quite soundly save for one or two show that he as a fighter is a level or two above them ?
Deny it all you want but those of us who have been watching Joe from the very beginning know he has A+ skills.
I wouldn't bother mate the americans won't listen they just rewrite history and slag him off. He beat Lacy so easy that he now doesn't count as a big win even though these same people were saying lacy was the best SMW in the world at the time and was KO Joe and beat him easy. You may as well bag your head against a wall as try and convince some ppl on here.
If you so blatantly and ignorantly choose to ignore Cazlaghe's obvious skills and talents, then it's you who needs to wake up.
Since when has home court advantage favoured Calzaghe when he has beat all most all of his opponents quite soundly ? the only fight you could question would be the Reid fight and that was in England.
Calzaghe has fought outside of Wales 26 times.
26 countries and 26 bums. Best dude he ever fought was Omar Sheika...a B+ level fighter @ best. Lacy was over hyped. Eubanks was already on geratol. We saw what happened when Cal got dropped by Mitchell...Ref Dave Parris stepped in and called it. Al Bernstein even said it was a gift.
What say you now bruv?
Cal has skills...B-level skrills