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I think it's a lot more likely that Calzaghe will retire then people realise or like to think. He's planned for a few years now to retire round about this time. Infact the last couple of years he's pretty much aimed to retire on his 46th fight, which is coming up. Although he does contradict himself and say he might fight on which gives some people hope, I think you have to look at it from a different angle. First, he's not Mayweather or Lacy, i.e he's not as blazay about talking and sticking to retirement as they are, so don't use being conditioned by others behaviour and not sticking to retirement, as a benchmark for someone else.
He's quite likely just holding onto his belt, and leaving it as an option to no retire and fight on. Doesn't mean he will however, just that he may aswell leave his options open and keep the belt a little longer. Overall and especially lately, his language and words have suggested he's serious about retiring. He's not scared of Pavlik and has talked of fighting him purely for that reason, he knows he can beat him. You don't talk of fighting someone quite seriously at times if your scared of them, so forget that one guys, or the ducking malarky, it's just sad.
As for speculation on whethere he'd fight on based on his next performance, well it's just that, speculation.
It might be easy to say if he fights and wins well against Roy he's more likely to fight on because he's performing well still.
However, recently he's actually said he wants to go out on a top performance, so if he doesn't produce that against Roy it's then he's more likely to fight on. So the opposite to what you might think.
He's suggested he's concerned he's getting more injuries, cuts now so might stop if either of those things happen or he feels he's slipped significantly more.
So it works both ways. It's easy to say these things are contradictory, but it's based on his performance level on the night itself (not necessarily a parameter of his level ongoing) that's the largest factor. Plus his motivation which he can't predict. He wants an ideal top performance to go out on. He may well get it and Roy Jones in NY on the fight he planned as he's last, at 36 is very suitable to retire on, respectably.
He's quite likely just holding onto his belt, and leaving it as an option to no retire and fight on. Doesn't mean he will however, just that he may aswell leave his options open and keep the belt a little longer. Overall and especially lately, his language and words have suggested he's serious about retiring. He's not scared of Pavlik and has talked of fighting him purely for that reason, he knows he can beat him. You don't talk of fighting someone quite seriously at times if your scared of them, so forget that one guys, or the ducking malarky, it's just sad.
As for speculation on whethere he'd fight on based on his next performance, well it's just that, speculation.
It might be easy to say if he fights and wins well against Roy he's more likely to fight on because he's performing well still.
However, recently he's actually said he wants to go out on a top performance, so if he doesn't produce that against Roy it's then he's more likely to fight on. So the opposite to what you might think.
He's suggested he's concerned he's getting more injuries, cuts now so might stop if either of those things happen or he feels he's slipped significantly more.
So it works both ways. It's easy to say these things are contradictory, but it's based on his performance level on the night itself (not necessarily a parameter of his level ongoing) that's the largest factor. Plus his motivation which he can't predict. He wants an ideal top performance to go out on. He may well get it and Roy Jones in NY on the fight he planned as he's last, at 36 is very suitable to retire on, respectably.
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