Heavyweight - David Haye
Light Heavyweight - Bernard Hopkins
Super Middleweight - Mikkel Kessler
Middleweight - Arthur Abraham
Welterweight - Miguel Cotto
Light Welterweight - Ricky Hatton
Lightweight - Michael Katsidis
isnt beating prime toney and hopkins a lot better than beating prime kessler and lacy? they never accompished anything in boxing. both toney and hopkins were p4p number 1 fighters. THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE! REAL PEOPLE ACTUALLY READ IT.
:nono: Hopkins was'nt anywhere near his best when Jones beat him, he was still green.
Who's going to be in the Hall of Fame though?
Not Joe when Jones hopefully kicks his ass, Atleast hatton WANTS to fight the best. Calzaghe wants easy fights.
Cocky Calzaghe eyes the Executioner
WBO super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe says he is in great shape for his 14 December showdown with Thomas Tate.
But Calzaghe is already looking beyond that to a "superfight" with Bernard 'The Executioner' Hopkins.
The Welshman is confident that the fight - scuppered earlier this year by Hopkins' purse demands - can be arranged for next summer at the Millennium Stadium.
And Calzaghe is sure that he can dispose of the WBC, WBA and IBF Middleweight champion, rated by many as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
"I'll destroy him," said Calzaghe. "He's 37 now and his last good win was against Felix Trinidad 14 months ago.
"He's said some pretty derogatory things about me, that I haven't beaten anybody and don't deserve to be in the same ring with him.
"If that's the case why has he been avoiding me? I'll do a winner-takes-all - let's put our money together and go for that. Perhaps he knows it's likely to be his last fight.
"I've been champion for five years and I want to fight the great fighters. I want to prove that I'm not just the best super middleweight in the world, but the best pound-for-pound."
A bullish Calzaghe was adamant that the 14 December bill he shares with Ricky Hatton at the Telewest Arena, Newcastle, was really his show.
"I like Ricky, he's a nice guy and a great fighter, but I'm the world champion on the night, he's my understudy," said the Newbridge brawler.
Hatton will defend his WBU Light Welterweight title against Brazilian Antonio Mesquita.
Calzaghe was in more respectful mood when discussing his opponent on the night, Thomas Tate.
"Tate's a very experienced US fighter who's only been stopped once, by the great Roy Jones Jr." Calzaghe added.
Like Charles Brewer, he's well known across the Atlantic but not in the UK. This fight is of the same standard as the Brewer match.''
"I'm in great form, punching hard, and I've got something to aim for - to follow Roy Jones and be the second man to knock this guy out.''
"I need to put on a big fight because 2003 is going to be my year."
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/2522563.stm
lol. Hatton his understudy? Hatton made more money with the mayweather fight than joe's done in his whole career.
No it doesnt go up.............Calzaghe won a close split decision.If you watch the tape at the end Calzaghe was surprised that he won when they annouced him the winner.....
Of course it goes up, even if it was a close decision win for Calzaghe. Because Hopkins just schooled the guy that a lot of people said would beat Calzaghe
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lol this thread is 2 months old
Less PPV's and more boxing on free to view tv
Edit: less PPV's for America the UK don't have that many, but more boxing on free tv will help in any country
England, Canada, Germany, all the former Soviet countries, time and time again, we've seen awful officiating from the hometown referee in favor of the hometown fighter. Librado Andrade knocked out Butt tonight! He was clearly robbed by an inept referee. This was a complete Blasphemy!!!!!!!
So the refs in America never do a bad job?
Simple as that, Ive said it before ill say it again something was wrong with him in the ring. Ive heard he had broncidus for 2 weeks. I also heard that in the locker room warming up Kelly knew something was wrong with his punches. He wont make excuses but i will.
I heard he/she had pms
Because millions go to watch a movie at the cinema and millions more buy the dvd. Movies have a much larger audience so they can sell them cheap and still make a profit
How.
Roy is the name. Roy is giving Joe the biggest payday of his life. Joe should thank Roy for getting 50%.
really? remind me how many PPV sales did roy do for his last fight?
If Lewis said he would come back for a 70/30 split Vitali should have bit his hand off. It would be this biggest Heavyweight fight since Tyson v Lewis and even with only 30% would make him more money than any other fight out there.
If its one thing im not looking forward to its Hattons annoying fans and that band of his..I like Hatton alot and have nothing against him but why do they allow that traveling band of his to play during the fight?
A lot of people enjoy the band it adds to the atmosphere, maybe they should ban cheering aswell or just have the fight behind closed doors with no fans there.
Hatton is a drunkin scottish bitch. He was talking shit thinking he was the greatest.. Then he ran into my lil homie mayweather and got KNOK THA FUK OUT!!
He gets no respect from me NEVER!
:lol1: Typical Mayweather fan don't know shit.
ricky is fighting a guy who belongs 1 or 2 weight divisions below him the majority of people who know boxing know that ricky is just too big and will beat pacman into submission.
as a positive ricky does seem to be training and looking really healthy, imo if ricky beats someone like tim bradley it will be a big scalp for him. a fwin over bradders will have alot more significance than win over pacman imo.
After the Diaz fight Roach said Pacquiao had a hard time making weight, after moving up to fight Oscar and now Hatton it would be even harder. Pacquiao belongs in the 140 division at this stage of his career.