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everybody hopes roy yones will somehow channel his spirit from 5 years ago...he says he is but who really knows......i really dont hate calzaghe i just dont want him to retire undefeated.....regardless this is funny
“Roy’s a great fighter, I’ve nothing bad to say about him. He’s a guy I’ve admired for 10 years, he’s walked the walk and talked the talk, he’s done it. But I will question only one thing. When it hits the fan, when his heart is going to be searched and his mind questioned, will he come up short?”
Enzo Calzaghe cited Jones’ consecutive knockout defeats in 2004 to Antonio Tarver and Glen Johnson as evidence to back his argument.
“Glen Johnson’s a great fighter but let’s not be ****** about it, he was a middleweight.,” Enzo said. “Tarver hasn’t set the world alight, (Joe) has, but Roy Jones, it wasn’t a flash knockdown, he was absolutely put to sleep.
“To me that means one thing, either he’s got a weak chin or weak resilience and deep down, in his own heart, he’ll know what he’s made of. Talk is cheap but when push comes to shove, he’ll be searching deep, deep for something he’s never felt before, a heart.”
Calzaghe has already had his soul searched, his father claimed, in his first world super-middleweight title fight against Chris Eubank in 1997, and was not found wanting in taking a 12-round unanimous decision.
“Joe had never fought over eight rounds before that and against Eubank he had to search his soul and find out what he was made of.
“That was Joe’s baptism and he found he had every bit of armory in place - character, endurance, ability, punch. Eubank had never been down in his life but he was put down twice in one round.”
Jones, Enzo Calzaghe countered, had not yet passed a similar test.
“Roy Jones has had everything his own way all his life. He’s played games, mucked about but when push comes to shove and came up against someone who wants to fight him, wants to knock him out and be in his face, he came up short on both occasions - Tarver and Johnson.”
“Roy’s a great fighter, I’ve nothing bad to say about him. He’s a guy I’ve admired for 10 years, he’s walked the walk and talked the talk, he’s done it. But I will question only one thing. When it hits the fan, when his heart is going to be searched and his mind questioned, will he come up short?”
Enzo Calzaghe cited Jones’ consecutive knockout defeats in 2004 to Antonio Tarver and Glen Johnson as evidence to back his argument.
“Glen Johnson’s a great fighter but let’s not be ****** about it, he was a middleweight.,” Enzo said. “Tarver hasn’t set the world alight, (Joe) has, but Roy Jones, it wasn’t a flash knockdown, he was absolutely put to sleep.
“To me that means one thing, either he’s got a weak chin or weak resilience and deep down, in his own heart, he’ll know what he’s made of. Talk is cheap but when push comes to shove, he’ll be searching deep, deep for something he’s never felt before, a heart.”
Calzaghe has already had his soul searched, his father claimed, in his first world super-middleweight title fight against Chris Eubank in 1997, and was not found wanting in taking a 12-round unanimous decision.
“Joe had never fought over eight rounds before that and against Eubank he had to search his soul and find out what he was made of.
“That was Joe’s baptism and he found he had every bit of armory in place - character, endurance, ability, punch. Eubank had never been down in his life but he was put down twice in one round.”
Jones, Enzo Calzaghe countered, had not yet passed a similar test.
“Roy Jones has had everything his own way all his life. He’s played games, mucked about but when push comes to shove and came up against someone who wants to fight him, wants to knock him out and be in his face, he came up short on both occasions - Tarver and Johnson.”
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