Team Palle Offers Calzaghe 5 $$$

[paulstokes2432]

i for one, surely believe that kessler would fight in wales if the offer was matched, and whether or not its 50/50 or 55/45, isnt really an issue in the end for palle, he just looking for warren to make an offer that represents market value..

http://www.teampalle.dk/composite-1421.htm

enjoy mate..

Not the most polite of letters is it? Well to be fair the offers of $3m and $5m aren't a million miles apart. Do you not wish that the 2 of them would stop trying to score cheap points in the media and actually sit down together a thrash out a deal to make this fight actually happen? I assume ur a kessler fan? you think he has what it takes to beat joe?

[SHB]

i for one, surely believe that kessler would fight in wales if the offer was matched, and whether or not its 50/50 or 55/45, isnt really an issue in the end for palle, he just looking for warren to make an offer that represents market value..

http://www.teampalle.dk/composite-1421.htm

enjoy mate..

I'm trying to think if that's the most hypocritical load of rubbish I have ever seen. Yes, yes it is.

We've finally found someone lower on the evolution rung than Warren. That's one hell of an achievement.

[gigogreco]

Not the most polite of letters is it? Well to be fair the offers of $3m and $5m aren't a million miles apart. Do you not wish that the 2 of them would stop trying to score cheap points in the media and actually sit down together a thrash out a deal to make this fight actually happen? I assume ur a kessler fan? you think he has what it takes to beat joe?

no its not the typycal corporate suit business talk, but a shout to frank and calling him out, palle is propably getting tired of offers not quite good enough..

well yes im a kessler fan.. well im not sure how this fight is going to go, calzaghe has better speed, but not to the ecstent some are giving him credit for, he WAS very fast, but now the difference in speed between kessler and joe isnt big, and im thinking kessler is more powerfull then any other boxer joe has ever boxed.. some say kessler is the perfect fight for joe, but they are under the assumption that kessler is slow and to one dimensional, i think they are going to be surprised, but in the end, its not going to be a easy fight, the winner is going to dig deep..

[.Mik.]

some guy just said the UK was a bigger boxing country than the US, really sad thats like saying featherweight is bigger than heavyweight

No, some guy just said that the UK was a bigger boxing country than Denmark. Moron.

And that is exactly the same reasoning Palle has for wanting the fight in Denmark.
Calzaghe is the bigger draw in the Uk, yes. Kessler is the bigger draw in Denmark. Who the bigger draw is in the US, or somewhere else neutral, well I'd like to see some numbers on that one.
Calzaghe is the number one in the division, yes. For now. But if you think the WBO belt is bigger than either one of the WBC and WBA belts, let alone both of them at the same time, you must be delirious?



Anywhere yes, any price no. In the real world, obviously Kessler is gonna want significantly more money to fight in the UK, as opposed to anywhere else. Look at what happened to Manfredo. Is that not a nightmare scenario for any potential Calzaghe opponent?
I think Kessler's shown he's willing to go into the other guy's backyard. Australia is a long way from home for a first title defence. Especially when you take into consideration he had a pretty bad back injury, and wasn't able to train much for that fight.
If the fight is to be made in the US, which I would certainly prefer as well (only fair way to do it), then I think you need some other people involved. Palle is not gonna stage a fight like that in the US, and neither is Warren. That is wishful thinking, IMO, and is not gonna happen. I guess they'll need HBO to come in and make it happen, if it's gonna be in the US.

Oh I'm with you that it needs to happen and that the US would be a good place to do so. But I cant see how Denmark could be heralded as an equal place to England. Calzaghe almost doubled Denmark's best ever attendance in his last fight and Britain has shown the capabilitied and the buy-rates of going bigger than that. We dont know that Denmark could, it hasnt been proven.

I do think that Joe Calzaghe's WBO belt and the fact that he is ranked number 1 in the rankings and higher up the P4P list than Kessler makes him the top guy still and as such, it should be a case of Kessler coming to him.

Not the most polite of letters is it? Well to be fair the offers of $3m and $5m aren't a million miles apart.

Well...they are $2m dollars apart, thats not chicken feed. Of course, what people dont realise is that the deal where Warren offered Kessler $3m to fight in the UK, Calzaghe was almost certainly going to make at least $5m from it. So this isnt exactly a lucrative offer to him, is it? Its just the same offer in terms of money...but in Denmark...and later than he wants to fight. So why would he be likely to accept?

[Guest]

There's no way they'd agree to fighting in Copenhagen. If Palle is serious he'll up the money and book a London or US venue.

So basically what's holding up the fight is the fact that Calzaghe is afraid to leave his country even for the biggest payday of his career? What's the most he's made so far? Thought it was like $3 million for the Lacy fight.

And Calzaghe needs to forget about Taylor and Hopkins. Those fights have no chance of happening until the end of the year or early 2008. Kessler is the only marquee opponent which he can fight before winter...

[.Mik.]

So basically what's holding up the fight is the fact that Calzaghe is afraid to leave his country even for the biggest payday of his career? What's the most he's made so far? Thought it was like $3 million for the Lacy fight.

And Calzaghe needs to forget about Taylor and Hopkins. Those fights have no chance of happening until the end of the year or early 2008. Kessler is the only marquee opponent which he can fight before winter...

Again, I must point out...:

Of course, what people dont realise is that the deal where Warren offered Kessler $3m to fight in the UK, Calzaghe was almost certainly going to make at least $5m from it. So this isnt exactly a lucrative offer to him, is it? Its just the same offer in terms of money...but in Denmark...and later than he wants to fight. So why would he be likely to accept?

[Guest]

Again, I must point out...:

Then all they need to do is sweeten the offer for Kessler to fight in the UK. Kessler obviously won't settle for $3 million. They want 50/50, so up the offer to $5 million and give Palle some of the TV rights and part of the gate and the fight is done and both promoters will make their money on this for sure...

[!!! Beowulf !!!]

no its not the typycal corporate suit business talk, but a shout to frank and calling him out, palle is propably getting tired of offers not quite good enough..

well yes im a kessler fan.. well im not sure how this fight is going to go, calzaghe has better speed, but not to the ecstent some are giving him credit for, he WAS very fast, but now the difference in speed between kessler and joe isnt big, and im thinking kessler is more powerfull then any other boxer joe has ever boxed.. some say kessler is the perfect fight for joe, but they are under the assumption that kessler is slow and to one dimensional, i think they are going to be surprised, but in the end, its not going to be a easy fight, the winner is going to dig deep..

Jeff Lacy and Byron Mitchell are probably more powerful than Kessler. Kessler hits reasonably hard but is not a power puncher, his power is about the same as Calzaghe's power was pre-2003. I think Kessler is a good all round fighter and is certainly not one dimensional despite his very rigid style.

[.Mik.]

Then all they need to do is sweeten the offer for Kessler to fight in the UK. Kessler obviously won't settle for $3 million. They want 50/50, so up the offer to $5 million and give Palle some of the TV rights and part of the gate and the fight is done and both promoters will make their money on this for sure...

I agree. But I think that the Calzaghe camp want the date to be closer to July than September too.

[!!! Beowulf !!!]

Then all they need to do is sweeten the offer for Kessler to fight in the UK. Kessler obviously won't settle for $3 million. They want 50/50, so up the offer to $5 million and give Palle some of the TV rights and part of the gate and the fight is done and both promoters will make their money on this for sure...

Kessler shouldn't get a 50/50 split. But his team should get Scandinavian and German TV rights.

Up Kessler's purse to $4 million and assuming Joe will be on $5-6 million that should make the fight in the UK.


Maybe a fight like this would give Warren another couple of years with ITV.