Enzo Calzaghe: Joe will have to find a new trainer, demands son stays retired.

Enzo Calzaghe has ruled out his undefeated son Joe coming back for a rematch with American Bernard Hopkins. Calzaghe, who had reigned as a super-middle and light heavyweight champion for more than 11 years, retired last year with a perfect 46-fight record. But Golden Boy promotions chief exe Richard Schaefer revealed Calzaghe had "expressed an interest" of returning. But Calzaghe sr, Joe's trainer, told BBC Sport: "There is no truth in it - and I would be the first to know." The Welshman beat superstar Hopkins in a controversial split points decision in Las Vegas on his United States and light-heavyweight debut in April 2008. Calzaghe then quit the ring after a unanimous points victory over Roy Jones jr, another American boxing legend, at New York's famous Madison Square Garden. Calzaghe conceded at the time that he "had achieved everything I wanted to achieve in boxing" and "I've got no other goals to go for." The 38-year-old, who held the WBO, WBA, WBC and IBF super-middleweight belts during his 16-year professional career, was back in Vegas on the weekend to watch Floyd Mayweather jr's points win over Shane Moseley. Calzaghe, who recently admitted "occasional use of cocaine", has struggled with the lack of routine since retiring from the ring and so the suggestions of a comeback have strengthened. Hopkins retired last month but both have apparently spoken to Oscar Del La Hoya's promotion company about another Anglo-American super-fight. Chief executive Schaefer told the Daily Mail: "Joe has expressed an interest and so has Bernard. We will try and make it happen in the autumn." Calzaghe, who has suffered costly domestic and promotional separations in recent years, may be tempted by a big-money rematch and left the comeback door ajar when he retired as he admitted: "You can never say never in this game." But he did add: "I can't see myself boxing again." Renowned trainer Calzaghe has been in Joe's corner since the age of nine and through his hugely successful amateur days. And the 60-year-old has warned Calzaghe Jr of the potential "danger" of returning to the ring for the money before adding that he would not train his son should the southpaw announce a comeback. "The talk of Joe coming back is news to me," Calzaghe said. "And being close as I am to Joe as a trainer and a father, I would be first know. So I believe there is no truth in the talk. "As far as I'm concerned he is retired and the word retired means retired. "There is a difference between suggesting and considering it. "He probably wakes up every morning and think shall I have another fight? But thinking about it and doing it are two completely different things. "His legacy is second to none and only a few in the sport have the mystique of finish their career unbeaten. "I understand why he might want to comeback if he finished on the back end of a battering. "But he retired at the very top after a superb win over Roy Jones Jr in one of his finest performances - he whitewashed a legend. "He retired because he had lost his hunger for boxing. Once you lose the hunger, how are you going to reignite it? For financial gain? "If Joe comes back now, he's playing with danger because he has nothing to gain and everything to lose. "As far as I know, Joe has no plans to comeback. He has given boxing a miss and all of a sudden to say I'm coming back? It's a joke. "If he does ask me my advice on a comeback I'd say go ahead - but without me. I know what he achieved cannot be touched or bettered." Calzaghe, who beat Chris Eubank to win the WBO super-middleweight title in 1997, unified his division when he beat Dane Mikkel Kessler. His 22nd WBO title defence was on points in front of 50,000 fans at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium in November 2007 before Calzaghe was crowned the 2007 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. And the Newbridge fighter beat two greats in Hopkins and Jones Jr when he moved up to light-heavyweight in 2008 to claim the prestigious Ring Magazine title in the USA. Calzaghe retired in February 2009 and initially flirted with starting the Calzaghe Promotions business, a venture which he later decided against after competing in reality TV show Strictly Come Dancing. He does keeps himself fit in the gym but as his father acknowledges "not at his previous level." "Sometimes soccer players become soccer managers," continued Calzaghe Sr. "But Joe has no appetite and has no interest in continuing in boxing at all apart from supporting it and watching it. "So to come back just for the sake of money, is something I will not be involved with. "Of course, Joe misses the routine and discipline of boxing training and preparing for a fight. And he will miss what he has done since he was nine years old. "It was not a one-man venture because I miss the day-to-day routine of being a boxing trainer as much as he misses training. But you just move on. "Joe and my boxing philosophy was always it's all about the glory rather than the money whereas a comeback would be for the wrong reason. "Everybody has to balance their own circumstances but sometimes money is the root of all evil. "As to comeback and do it for the money and potentially demolish what you have already achieved makes no sense. "And to comeback and maybe beat a guy inside one round is not the answer as where does it all end? Do you have another fight? Then another? "And if Joe has a bad day at the office and loses then retires again - it's too late as he would have lost that unbeaten tag. "My theory is if his appetite has gone, why come back?" The interesting part is him saying joe has lost his hunger to be the best