Roy Jones Responds To Joe Calzaghe's Claims

[Chunk..]

agreed he had a **** promotor at the time and mangement he would of not even made enough for the plane home.

He still has a **** promoter and bad management, that's the problem!

Maybe Joe wanted to go to the states eairlier in his career and fight prime Roy and prime Hopkins etc.

But IMO Frank Warren and Co didn't want to send there prize fighter into the lions den incase Joe got his ass beat on the biggest stage in boxing!

Amen.

[QUISQUEYA]

Provide proof, because as far as I'm aware this is bull****.

Let me flip the script back to you. You are asking me to prove a negative?

You made a statement that Calzaghe would come to America back in the late 90s. Please provide any evidence of that.

Because I can provide evidence of Roy's competition level at that time. Calzaghe's? Not so much.

[dmendoz6]

Joe never didn't wanna leave eUrope himself he said it in interviews before he would always say he would fight them anyday, As long as they went to europe to fight him. RJJ would have made joe look like a fool if they fought in their primes. I hope this fight happens cuz rjj can still do it imo.

[andy34swales]

mate u need to learn how to read properly,,xlukex stated,that he wasnt saying jones was scared of joe,he simply pointed out that jones chose fights that where easier than fighting joe,and jones has admitted himself that fighting joe back then was a risk he didnt need to take,all b it he made out that the judges decision would go against him,,so ****wit it doesnt take a genious to figure out roy[even tho number 1 at the time]seen joe as to big a threat to his well earned legacy in boxing,and he was rite,joe is far better than tarver and the other boxers jones has lost 2,,u slag of who joe has boxed in his unbeaten carrer,but what ele could he do when your top fighters[jones,as hes pointed out]and[hopkins who went as far to signing a contract to fight joe]didnt have the bolloxs to face him,**** me hopkins jumped 2 light heavy where their was no 1 to fight[hense him taking on delahoya who is no where near big enough to fight at that weight],lets b honest joe frightend the life out o him[he **** out after signing a contract]then chose light heavy weight,from middle weight,wanker

[Jim Jeffries]

mate u need to learn how to read properly,,xlukex stated,that he wasnt saying jones was scared of joe,he simply pointed out that jones chose fights that where easier than fighting joe,and jones has admitted himself that fighting joe back then was a risk he didnt need to take,all b it he made out that the judges decision would go against him,,so ****wit it doesnt take a genious to figure out roy[even tho number 1 at the time]seen joe as to big a threat to his well earned legacy in boxing,and he was rite,joe is far better than tarver and the other boxers jones has lost 2,,u slag of who joe has boxed in his unbeaten carrer,but what ele could he do when your top fighters[jones,as hes pointed out]and[hopkins who went as far to signing a contract to fight joe]didnt have the bolloxs to face him,**** me hopkins jumped 2 light heavy where their was no 1 to fight[hense him taking on delahoya who is no where near big enough to fight at that weight],lets b honest joe frightend the life out o him[he **** out after signing a contract]then chose light heavy weight,from middle weight,wanker

Roy's competition, at SMW and LHW, that was below Joe's level, is too numerous to list.

[edgarg]

Except the fight was to be made in America, so your bull**** excuse doesn't wash. Let's look at the truth here. Joe wasn't a big name I admit, but how many of RJJ's opponents were? Yet Roy fought them anyway and left Calzaghe out in the cold. It couldn't have been a monetary issue, as Roy took fights for less than the offer that was made to fight Joe. I'm not trying to say Roy was scared of Joe, but he most certainly didn't want to fight him. What we also have to remember is that this was back when Joe had the power and speed to expose Roy's fragile beard. I can understand why Roy didn't take the fight, and I am not accusing him of dodging Joe, it was a business decision first and foremost. What I do take exception to, however, is Roy telling only half truths. Roy wouldn't fight Joe because there was a very real chance he could lose (Prime for prime its a 50-50 pickem fight) against an unknown opponent in his own backyard.

You could be right, but I don't recall that there was any announcement by Calzaghe or his management that he was willing to travel to America back then. Their talk was all about their lack ofreaso to travel when they had huge built-in following in Britain, and the uncertainty about getting a faor deal in the States. I also don't recall any deinite contract talks. whatever they were doing behind the scnes, was probably jockeying for the upper hand in negotiations still to come. Which never did, because as Jones says, he had an overfull plate, as had Calzaghe.

[robjr]

just stop all the whining about the past and make this fight happen.

[Vladimir303]

Provide proof, because as far as I'm aware this is bull****.

The proof is that 2008 was his first fight in America. Who is Joe Calzaghe to be calling great fightes out as WBO titlist from Europe like he is Oscar Delahoya - that the fighters will fight him as soon as he mentions their name.

Lennox Lewis came to America and he got his oppritunities like every other heavyweight and he made the best out of it becoming the heavyweight champion. Had he only been fightin in England for the majority of his career calling out Holyfield or Tyson....nobody would have taken him serious.


Like Ricky Hatton, it was Joe's responsibility to leave the comfort of his home and go chase the great fighters in or around his weight class. He didn't do that....plain and simple. He chose to hold on to his WBO title and make defenses in Wales living comfortably and Frank Warren benefited the most from it.

[demirturk]

roy jones i 100% correct

[supermandathoe]

He was willing to go to the States and always said it openly. What are you on about? He said the same thing about Hopkins. "I will fight him in his own back garden". That was YEARS ago.

That. Is. A. Lie.