Ricky Hatton: "Calzaghe vs. Dawson, A Load of Rubbish"

[kingfaze19]

i dont think that calzaghe should retire without settling the score with hopkins. that 1st fight was too close to call,even some of his fans felt he lost.he couldnt do half of what he did to jones to bhop.if they fight again it will be a much bigger PPV event,hopkins is 43 years old and is coming off his best performance ever. nobody has beaten bhop without controversy involved,if joe beats hopkins in a decisive way,that will most definetly shut up any nonbeleivers, and then he could retire in peace.hopkins is going to remain active weather he fights calzaghe or not,i just want that rematch to happen,because no matter if you hate hopkins,ive watched their first match over 5 times and i have yet to see calzaghe winning

[DoomCity202]

Weather he wins or loses I dont care to see him fight again.

[raabd]

I agree that there really is no reason to fight anyone else but calzaghe has to live with the fact that he beat an over the hill 43 yr old hopkins and a completely shot 40 yr old jones. Calzaghe did not beat the best roy jones or bernard hopkins and there is no point in arguing this. Where was joe five years ago? These wins are as meaningful as hatton's win over a completely shot castillo, they mean nothing.

[Roger Mellie]

There is a difference here: Lennox came to the States and went hunting, but the prey didn't come out until later. Not Lewis's fault Bowe ducked him or that Holyfield wasn't the same after Bowe...or Tyson threw his career away.

Lennox was willing to fight them all in their prime; I cannot say the same for Joe.


Maybe Lennox wouldn't have cleared them all out prime vs. prime, but you have to give it to him, he was Willing and did his best in trying to lure them into the ring.

nonsense,even hopkins manager has conceded that hopkins reneged on a deal to fight calzaghe in 2002,and jones had an option for a fight with joe in 2001,but wouldnt take it as it was high risk little reward.furthermore if you write hopkins off as an old man,where the **** does that leave kelly pavlik??

[Roger Mellie]

I think Calslappy should fight again a young hungry fighter like Dawson. He fought 40 something unknown fighters in the UK and then he beat Lacy, Kessler and then a 43 year old Hopkins who actually gave a better performance than Jones. And both Hopkins and Jones are way past their prime at 40 and 43. Come on Joe the best UK fighter will always be Lennox because he cleaned out the division and unified belts. You have only ruled the Super middleweight, try winning belts in 4 different weight classes like Jones or have continue fighting until 43 like Hopkins!! The Truth is that you are looking for a quick exit and not willing to fight younger fighters like Dawson. You will be respected in UK but not here

not by ****wits like you,but the vast majority of your countrymen within boxing do.thats why joe has **** all to prove to some gutless mong that calls him a slapper on an anonymous web forum

[Flawless 2]

Name one LEGEND that Lennox Lewis beat IN THEIR PRIME. Go on.

I like Lennox but even though he beat everyone around, even though he could be competitive with anyone from history, he didn't ever fight a prime legendary fighter. Tyson was well past it, as was Holyfield. He did beat the legendary prime Frank Bruno though.

Vitali
Tua

Not legends but solid names

[thack]

you bitter twat

[JWPearce3]

Calzaghe vs. Dawson isn't rubbish. Hatton headbutting the corner post vs. Mayweather? That's rubbish.

[alembic]

I guess my point is that beating a 39yr old and 43yr old legend proves nothing.. it definitely doesnt qualify you as great. Lennox Lewis is great, Muhammad Ali is great, Sugar Ray Leonard is great, Joe Louis is great Calzaghe is not. He has not fought one single legend in their prime. Name one LEGEND in their prime who Calzaghe has beat? You cant WHY? because he avoided them.

Ali is an ATG. Joe's a great fighter but is he an ATG? Zero losses does not make an ATG. Fight a prime Dawson and kick his ass. That would shut me up (and a lot of other people).

[Allucard]

Chad Dawson was a bit of the bolt from the blue.

Calzaghe is an old man who is fighting the other senior citizens. He took on young undefeated champions before. Chad Dawson offers nothing tangibly different to either to ensure Joe a big enough pay day. Jeff Lacy was hyped as hell. Kessler was a double world champion. They both had zero's.

Dawson has one truly impressive display against Tarver. A solid, unspectacular opponent who is long in the tooth himself.

Well that is true, we don't know much about Dawson, but imagine Dawson is the real deal? Then Calzaghe will be for a while.