"All those guys, Roy Jones, Bernard Hopkins let's do it...I've shown tonight what I'm all about. I'm looking to fight for another 12 months and I just want big fights now.
"I hope Hopkins will come out of hiding and not back out. I'll go and fight him in his garden if that's what it takes.
"I will put an extra seven pounds on and then you will see some proper destruction."
Calzaghe has never received the recognition in America that he feels his long reign as champion merits, and promoter Frank Warren is determined to get his man a big gig stateside.
"The great fighters, the Tommy Hearns and Marvin Haglers and Sugar Ray Leonards, they fought everybody and never ducked," he said.
"We will go to Philadelphia, to Hopkins's home town to fight him. If Bernard Hopkins is the warrior that he says he is then let's make the fight."
Calzaghe ruled out a return fight with Kessler, paying the Dane a big compliment in defeat.
"I don't really do returns," he said. "Besides, he's just 28 and he's going to get better. He's a great fighter and that was one of the toughest fights of my career."
"I hope Hopkins will come out of hiding and not back out. I'll go and fight him in his garden if that's what it takes.
"I will put an extra seven pounds on and then you will see some proper destruction."
Calzaghe has never received the recognition in America that he feels his long reign as champion merits, and promoter Frank Warren is determined to get his man a big gig stateside.
"The great fighters, the Tommy Hearns and Marvin Haglers and Sugar Ray Leonards, they fought everybody and never ducked," he said.
"We will go to Philadelphia, to Hopkins's home town to fight him. If Bernard Hopkins is the warrior that he says he is then let's make the fight."
Calzaghe ruled out a return fight with Kessler, paying the Dane a big compliment in defeat.
"I don't really do returns," he said. "Besides, he's just 28 and he's going to get better. He's a great fighter and that was one of the toughest fights of my career."
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