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  • msagrain
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    Jones ready for Calzaghe showdown

    Roy Jones Jr is confident of taking on world super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe sooner rather than later.
    The American, 39, knocked down Felix Trinidad twice in a unanimous points victory in New York on Saturday.

    Calzaghe is hoping to face Bernard Hopkins in April and Jones is keen to do battle with the Welshman after that.

    "We're going to Wales in the morning," his promoter Don King claimed, while Jones said: "I'm definitely looking to make that fight and I'm going there."

    Jones added: "I'll fight anybody, anywhere, any time and if Hopkins-Calzaghe finishes how I think it will, I'll even go to Wales and fight. I don't care."

    Five-time world champion Jones proved too strong in his non-title fight with fellow great Trinidad.

    He began to take control from the third round and knocked the 35-year-old Puerto Rican down in the seventh.

    All my fans around the world said I was done but you can never know when it's your time - I'm pretty much 'Mr Unstoppable'

    Roy Jones Jr

    A straight right sent Trinidad over again in the 10th and over the final couple of rounds, a relaxed and smiling Jones was able to pick off Trinidad at will.

    The win improved his record to 52-4 with 38 knockouts, and he said it had proved wrong critics who claimed he was past his best.

    "All my fans around the world said I was done," said Jones, who won the fight 117-109, 116-110, 116-110 on the judges' scorecards.

    "But you never know when you're going to be here, or when you're going to go, so you can never know when it's your time.

    "I had a great training camp and great sparring partners and I'm pretty much 'Mr Unstoppable'."

    Trinidad, a former welterweight, super welterweight, and middleweight title holder, was fighting for the first time at light-heavyweight.

    "Roy was very fast and very strong," he said after his first bout in almost three years. "I have no excuses. He demonstrated speed and took my body punches."
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    Originally posted by msagrain
    Roy Jones Jr is confident of taking on world super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe sooner rather than later.
    The American, 39, knocked down Felix Trinidad twice in a unanimous points victory in New York on Saturday.

    Calzaghe is hoping to face Bernard Hopkins in April and Jones is keen to do battle with the Welshman after that.

    "We're going to Wales in the morning," his promoter Don King claimed, while Jones said: "I'm definitely looking to make that fight and I'm going there."

    Jones added: "I'll fight anybody, anywhere, any time and if Hopkins-Calzaghe finishes how I think it will, I'll even go to Wales and fight. I don't care."

    Five-time world champion Jones proved too strong in his non-title fight with fellow great Trinidad.

    He began to take control from the third round and knocked the 35-year-old Puerto Rican down in the seventh.

    All my fans around the world said I was done but you can never know when it's your time - I'm pretty much 'Mr Unstoppable'

    Roy Jones Jr

    A straight right sent Trinidad over again in the 10th and over the final couple of rounds, a relaxed and smiling Jones was able to pick off Trinidad at will.

    The win improved his record to 52-4 with 38 knockouts, and he said it had proved wrong critics who claimed he was past his best.

    "All my fans around the world said I was done," said Jones, who won the fight 117-109, 116-110, 116-110 on the judges' scorecards.

    "But you never know when you're going to be here, or when you're going to go, so you can never know when it's your time.

    "I had a great training camp and great sparring partners and I'm pretty much 'Mr Unstoppable'."

    Trinidad, a former welterweight, super welterweight, and middleweight title holder, was fighting for the first time at light-heavyweight.

    "Roy was very fast and very strong," he said after his first bout in almost three years. "I have no excuses. He demonstrated speed and took my body punches."
    Now you will now you have nothing to lose.

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    • Haterfree
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      #3
      I dont think Joe wants any part of Roy. He would rather fight the 43yr old Hopkins who Roy already beat.

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      • flat1985
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        #4
        Originally posted by Haterfree
        I dont think Joe wants any part of Roy. He would rather fight the 43yr old Hopkins who Roy already beat.
        Because Hopkins is Ring champion and Jones is ..............

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          #5
          Originally posted by flat1985
          Because Hopkins is Ring champion and Jones is ..............
          ........... is the guy who already beat Hopkins. Do you honestly think that Hopkins has more of a legacy at LHW than Jones does? Roy put the LHW division on the map.

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          • TopDawg
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            #6
            Hopefully they do decide to face eachother. I wonder if Joe will now decide to face Jones instead of Hopkins.

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            • -Antonio-
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              Damn he's going to try to steal the fight from Hopkins. That's a tempting deal with the fight being in Wales instead of the US and all.

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              • flat1985
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                #8
                Originally posted by Haterfree
                ........... is the guy who already beat Hopkins. Do you honestly think that Hopkins has more of a legacy at LHW than Jones does? Roy put the LHW division on the map.
                lol how many years ago?

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                • Super_Lightweight
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by flat1985
                  Now you will now you have nothing to lose.
                  Correct. That's how the sport goes. When you're on top, people are supposed to come to you, not vice versa. Challengers do not dictate terms.

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                  • flat1985
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by -Antonio-
                    Damn he's going to try to steal the fight from Hopkins. That's a tempting deal with the fight being in Wales instead of the US and all.
                    This could be a factor.

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