Jermain Taylor: "Calzaghe, I Want $10 Million"

[kevtwin]

what i dont get is the **** spouted on here about "hometown" decisions. In Joe Calzaghes career he has never even been close to a disputed decision and certainly not a hometown one. Lact is the best he has fought in the last few years and the best America had to send (or so we were told)....i didnt see any "hometown" decision there.
He boxes when he boxes, fights when he fights and scraps like an animal when he needs to....Joe is the real deal and ive not heard a single person criticise you know who for not coming to Wales to fight Calzaghe. When Joe gets that record, he will always be able to say that the man who MIGHT have stopped him wouldnt try.
Taylor asks for $10million and means $5 or 6million....i hope they call his bluff and put the money on the table. Taylor doesnt want to fight Calzaghe and neither does anyone else who saw the Lacy fight.
Its HIS title, come get it! Wales doesnt need America, we've survived for 700 years so far.

[Super Cartel]

I like Joe big fan but if he takes that Inkin fight i will run him off
like the sheep shagger he is lol

Nah proper i will instantly take a dislike to him..
This point of Joes career now only a few fights left for him now
you can not take the inkins of this world and expect us true boxing heads
to accept you hell no **** that...
You have to take on either Taylor,Kessler or Hopkins for us to respect you
and not take you for a joke...
If he cares about his legacy he will not fight Inkin i dont care how tough
the dude is we need A NAME FIGHTER.....

Kessler is having a tattoo done and he wont fight joe already refused
Hopkins is fighting the Winkster and i can never see a fight with the Hop
and Joe turning out better get Taylor and Quick thats if he wins his fight
against Old Cory "did u fall asleep" sprinks

Warren aint paying anyone in the world 10 mil
he wouldnt pay 5 mil let alone 10

[Technical_Skill]

Taylor asks for $10million and means $5 or 6million....i hope they call his bluff and put the money on the table. Taylor doesnt want to fight Calzaghe and neither does anyone else who saw the Lacy fight.
Its HIS title, come get it! Wales doesnt need America, we've survived for 700 years so far.

Yep cos Fighting a prime Hopkins twice in row,

and then

Winky Wright

are much easier fights than Joe Calzaghe.

lol.

[.Mik.]

I like Joe big fan but if he takes that Inkin fight i will run him off
like the sheep shagger he is lol

Nah proper i will instantly take a dislike to him..
This point of Joes career now only a few fights left for him now
you can not take the inkins of this world and expect us true boxing heads
to accept you hell no **** that...
You have to take on either Taylor,Kessler or Hopkins for us to respect you
and not take you for a joke...
If he cares about his legacy he will not fight Inkin i dont care how tough
the dude is we need A NAME FIGHTER.....

Kessler is having a tattoo done and he wont fight joe already refused
Hopkins is fighting the Winkster and i can never see a fight with the Hop
and Joe turning out better get Taylor and Quick thats if he wins his fight
against Old Cory "did u fall asleep" sprinks

Warren aint paying anyone in the world 10 mil
he wouldnt pay 5 mil let alone 10

I want Calzaghe to fight someone big next as much as literally anyone else on these forums. Warren may not have offered the best deals to people so far...but they havent really offered him anything reasonable back at all either. He cant really be blamed for the fact that Taylor wants ridiculous money to fight him, or if Hopkins cannot fight til January, or if Kessler decides he wont be ready after a longer layoff than Calzaghe for July...can he?

[kevtwin]

absolutely spot on......you pay me £25 million NOW and i will get in with Mike Tyson after calling him a dumbass ****** and biting his ear. Im a light welter by the way.

get the picture?

[kevtwin]

adietheforestfa

fighting Froch in Cardiff would just give the opportunity for a fight between the Soul Crew and however many come down from Nottingham. Calzaghe is on another planet to Froch and in reality i thing Froch SHOULD have been the opponent from Manfredo as they are on the same level.
Froch v Calzaghe would be a non-fight marred by trouble outside the ring IMHO

[Technical_Skill]

I want Calzaghe to fight someone big next as much as literally anyone else on these forums. Warren may not have offered the best deals to people so far...but they havent really offered him anything reasonable back at all either. He cant really be blamed for the fact that Taylor wants ridiculous money to fight him, or if Hopkins cannot fight til January, or if Kessler decides he wont be ready after a longer layoff than Calzaghe for July...can he?

Fair point.

But why is Joe Calzaghe staying in Wales?

Wales is not the mecca of boxing.

Wales is not where the big money is.

Wales is not where legends are made.

If he wants the big fights like he says he does, he has to go to America.

Thats not just for Joe, Lennox Lewis had to do it, Ricky Hatton had to do it etc.

[!!! Beowulf !!!]

adietheforestfa

fighting Froch in Cardiff would just give the opportunity for a fight between the Soul Crew and however many come down from Nottingham. Calzaghe is on another planet to Froch and in reality i thing Froch SHOULD have been the opponent from Manfredo as they are on the same level.
Froch v Calzaghe would be a non-fight marred by trouble outside the ring IMHO

Froch would have legitimately stopped Manfredo in three.

Taylor is afraid of Calzaghe.

Is this a joke? Just look at Taylor's opposition compared to Calzaghe's. After Taylor's May 19th fight, his last 5 fights will be Hopkins twice, Winky, Ouma, and Spinks. Those five fights alone are better than Calzaghe's entire career...

Why would he fear Calzaghe? Ridiculous...

[paulstokes2432]

I get fed up of reading this rubbish people slagging off joe for never fighting anyone a year after they were all saying how Lacy would hammer him and look how that turned out. Anybody with half a brain knows that $10 mil is ****** money and Taylor is pricing himself out of the fight just the same as Kesslers ppl do. Kessler wants the fight without doubt but his management aren't interested in it. Joe is the champion in those weight divisions and although i joe should maybe consider fighting in the US ppl who want to take his tittle a sthe top fight in the middle weights if they're serious should come and take it. Also how was hopkins in his prime when taylor fought him? how old was he? and ouma? good fighter but nothing at all special.