Calzaghe-Jones, an era in judgement!

**Truth** · 07-15-2008, 09:36 PM

Frankie Liles was offered a chance to fight Roy and he turned it down. I'm pretty sure...

**Truth** · 07-15-2008, 09:43 PM

Roy says in this video at the 5:55 mark that Frankie Liles, Steve Collins and Nigel Benn were offed contracts and they turned them down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjvBqSDJJoA&feature=related

**Dirk Diggler UK** · 07-15-2008, 09:48 PM

Originally posted by TRUTH

Roy says in this video at the 5:55 mark that Frankie Liles, Steve Collins and Nigel Benn were offed contracts and they turned them down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjvBq...eature=related

Well hell if Roy said it, it mustve happened. God never lies. :wank:

**Dan...** · 07-15-2008, 09:50 PM

Not sure I agree with a whole lot of what was said in that article. This isn't Roy's era anymore anyway.

**bsrizpac** · 07-15-2008, 10:04 PM

Originally posted by Dirk Diggler UK

Well hell if Roy said it, it mustve happened. God never lies. :wank:

Yeah but you do. That and you're ****ing ignorant.

**MELLY-MEL...** · 07-15-2008, 10:46 PM

Originally posted by bsrizpac

yeah But You Do. That And You're ****ing Ignorant.

Lol............

**ИATAS** · 07-15-2008, 10:50 PM

For nearly the whole decade before that, however, Calzaghe was content to defend his alphabet belt against Bum Of The Month Club types (though Calzaghe's un-Joe-Louis-like schedule made it more of a "Bum Every Six Months Club").

"He's chosen to go in the direction of fighting a faded superstar, and there's nothing wrong with that -- you get lots of money, an opponent you feel comfortable against and a lot of mainstream recognition. But what you don't get is any real legacy-building credibility."

good points

**Dirk Diggler UK** · 07-15-2008, 10:58 PM

Originally posted by natas206

good points

"I always felt he ducked some fighters out there," Roach told ESPN.com. "When he was at super middleweight, both Frankie Liles and Steve Collins, two fighters I trained who had world titles -- they both wanted to fight him but he wouldn't fight either of them. I mean, probably Roy Jones would have beaten them, but Frankie did beat him twice in the amateurs, so you never know. At super middleweight, Jones never tried to unify the titles, and that really made me not such a Roy Jones fan, to be honest. To be known as the best, I think you need to beat everybody."

Even better points. But Freddie Roach is just some "dumb ****ing Brit" anyway so who cares?

**Silencers** · 07-15-2008, 11:00 PM

Shame the fight comes 10 years too late.

Calzaghe-Jones, an era in judgement!