Calzaghe Turns Down Hopkins Fight Offer

[Piggu]

hopkins need to be fair if he wants joe to acept. 60/50 split and the fight will happen

wtf?

[-Antonio-]

The division lacks names. If he doesnt want Woods and wont fight Hopkins, then there's not much else out there. Maybe he can fight Pavlik this summer.

[medium-deek]

The division lacks names. If he doesnt want Woods and wont fight Hopkins, then there's not much else out there. Maybe he can fight Pavlik this summer.

I would love to see what name HBO come up with since Joe is keen to keep em happy.

[typeone]

it all boils down to the fact he scared of the American Executioner...but hell who wouldnt b

You sure m8?? You new to the game or you been on the bud lol

[pbftxrs316]

he is ducking hops imo. if he wants to fight here than he needs to take the fight. what other fight does he want. he turned down the woods fight. which i think was a good idea bc that would have been a BS fight. its easy to sell out in your home country. especally when your a champ. here in the US where boxing lives has ALOT of american fighters so there for you cant point out one fighter draws. if boxing was over in the UK than i think hops would be a big draw here. but with boxing going on here its harder to sell like calz does in his home town. anymway i think he should just take the fight. he was talking all this crap when hops came out and said he wanted the winner of jones jr and tito. he came out saying he ducking me and ****. the money was offered so take it. i understand that ALL FIGHTERS DO THIS(calm down calz fans dont jump down my throat.) but just except the fight. i hate it when boxers do this. its the biggest fight of your life. take it no matter what the money is.

i'm glad you put this in your post seeing how many of the floyd haters criticize floyd for fighting just for money when mainly every big fighter does the same exact thing. just goes to show just how much importance the haters' posts and hateful threads lack when they take up for joe wanting big money for a fight with hopkins but criticize floyd for fighting for money, and call him names like a coward and ***** and a ducker, when in turn, he's looking for big fights just like joey is. hyprocrites to the tee are many of the posters in boxingscene.com/forums.

[brently1979]

from what i remember of the Hopkins/Wright fight, the crowd was dissapointing. i know bhop stans dont want to realize this, but did isnt the draw he thinks he is.

This is a very good point, Hopkins couldn't sell out a fight in Vegas with Winky, so Hopkins better start getting real if he really wants to fight JC.

[-Hyperion-]

hopkins is a *****...

[Super_Lightweight]

It doesn't really matter how much he was offered. Calzaghe expects to make more money from a fight with Hopkins than he did with Kessler and is quite right to do so.

Eh, no. Not at all. Kessler was a big European fight. Calzaghe has never fought in the States. He is moving UP to CHALLENGE Hopkins. He should not automatically expect more money.

By this logic, say if Joe made 6 mill vs Kessler, he 'should' get 7 mill vs Hopkins. Silly. If Joe wouldn't take 4 mill in this case, he would be a dumbass and ducker in my eyes.

These figures of what he made vs Kessler and what he was offered by Golden Boy need to be made public. Perhaps Joe was offered a significant amount by Golden Boy but won't say what it is because he knows he could look like a dumbass.

[Mozza]

Eh, no. Not at all. Kessler was a big European fight. Calzaghe has never fought in the States. He is moving UP to CHALLENGE Hopkins. He should not automatically expect more money.

By this logic, say if Joe made 6 mill vs Kessler, he 'should' get 7 mill vs Hopkins. Silly. If Joe wouldn't take 4 mill in this case, he would be a dumbass and ducker in my eyes.

These figures of what he made vs Kessler and what he was offered by Golden Boy need to be made public. Perhaps Joe was offered a significant amount by Golden Boy but won't say what it is because he knows he could look like a dumbass.

A fight between Calzaghe and Hopkins should generate considerably more money for Calzaghe than a fight with Kessler. If it doesn't then there is no real reason to fight in the US at all.

[brother chin]

this is a tough matchup. Many are picking joe to win, but don't count out b-hop. If b-hop uses good technique and not the that grab and punch thiing, he might pull it off. Remember byron scott. Joe stopped him, but not before getting rocked himself.