Why didn't Calzaghe ever fight Roy Jones Jr.?

[CraigM]

Where you in florida?

Nah was just some website talking about boxing.

Was nice when i went to Cardiff, Calzaghe is a national hero, everyone on the train asked me how the fight went

[Easy-E]

There we go.

How about Jones?

Chris Eubank
Nigel Benn
Steve Collins
Sven Ottke (LOL)
Bernard Hopkins (Rematch)
Dariusz Michalczewski
Joe Calzaghe

The sad thing is that your probably serious.

[RichCCFC]

Hell yeah, Calzaghe is the best sportsman ever to come out of Wales imo. More and more of my friends have started boxing now after the sucessfull 2007 year and Calzaghe is a big motivation to all Welsh people (British too) who want to start boxing.

[QuCongee]

after jones beat ruiz, calzaghe also did an interview on *********.com where he admitted that he never really wanted to fight jones and that he was relieved that jones had moved up to heavyweight because he was the best fighter on the planet and joe was terrified to fight him.

Where's the interview?

[Degsy]

Where's the interview?

I can remember him paying a lot of respect to Roy, but nothing along the lines of the earlier poster.

[superchamp]

Where's the interview?

i've been trying to find it for a while, but haven't had any luck.

i would have copied and saved it at the time if i would have known that he would change his tune after Roy lost to Tarver, but I never saw either of those events coming.

It was in the weeks after Jones' win over Ruiz in the lead-up to Joe's upcoming fight.

I'm pretty sure it was on *********, because back then I didn't really read many other sites.

Several others also read the same interview and have referenced it in the past and I'm hoping one day it turns up.

[superchamp]

I can remember him paying a lot of respect to Roy, but nothing along the lines of the earlier poster.

I believe that is almost verbatim what Calzaghe said. I can remember it vividly because I thought that it was hilarious and would finally shut up all those people that tried to say that Jones was ducking Calzaghe.

[Degsy]

Shame it never happened, Prime v Prime, Joe may not have won, but I think he's the only one that would have given him a work out. According to Woodhall, Joe is the only one who is anywhere near Roy's speed, and we know Joe's chin is fine, so Roy by a close UD.

[PeROxiDE]

i've been trying to find it for a while, but haven't had any luck.
i would have copied and saved it at the time if i would have known that he would change his tune after Roy lost to Tarver, but I never saw either of those events coming.

It was in the weeks after Jones' win over Ruiz in the lead-up to Joe's upcoming fight.

I'm pretty sure it was on *********, because back then I didn't really read many other sites.

Several others also read the same interview and have referenced it in the past and I'm hoping one day it turns up.

Because it doesnt exist you idiot. At least not in the way you are trying to represent it. I have seen the interview and what was actually said was along the lines of "he is the best fighter in the world, he might beat me but the oppurtunity would have been nice"

I also remember Joe offering to go to the states to fight Roy? Dont say anything about not being a draw because compared to some of the guys Roy was fighting at the time, being a name didnt make a difference, you still got your shot at Roy. In fact, I'd even go as far as to say that Roy avoided big name fighters to a certain extent, probably because in big fights people care more about whether or not you happen to be juiced up.

[IMDAZED]

Interview sure did occur on *********. Calzaghe also said the said thing in another interview that someone posted on here - with some McCormick writer.

He said it, get over it. Dude didn't want Jones until Jones lost. Ever since Jones came crashing to Earth it's been, "Roy Jones ducked me all these years!" Sure, guy...