Who took more risks? Hatton or Calzaghe?

[DarchinyFAN]

He took a real risk Giving Robin Reid that rematch too. What a warrior!

He offered Tocker Pudwill a rematch, but pulled it off the table when it looked like Tucker would accept

[Chunk..]

He took a real risk Giving Robin Reid that rematch too. What a warrior!

Robin Reid deserved a rematch at the very least IMO.

[AKATheMack]

Hatton easily him fighting Mayweather trumped Joe fighting unproven prospects and old legends. Cant wait for your next installment Who hits harder George Foreman or Chris Byrd

[Enemy/Friend]

He has done but then so have a lot of Boxers, ODL says he won't face Hatton as he's a natural lighter guy and should stay at LWW, so will face Margarito Cotto winner. Then he won't face Cotto because like his GF, he is Puerto Rican. Won't face Margarito because like him he's Mexican.

Then he faces someone even lighter than Hatton in Pacman. And he wants the Hatton fight now.

These are majorly worse contradictions of current times in closer times periods, yet hardly get mentioned. And that's just one boxer. A little odd.

Like I say, yes Calzaghe made that one comment on probably not fancying his chances against Jones, but didn't say definitely or wouldn't face him really. Plus it was one comment once, a lot of boxers are confident most of the time but have blips in confidence, heck Haye was un confident and contradictory talking about the HW's in the pre Barrett presser, saying I'd retire if Monte beat him even as he'd look silly and would realise he's not the real deal. Hardly in line with his usual comments were used to.

Like I say and all I'm saying is, Calzaghe did factually, speak out more emphatically and more often about being more than willing to face Jones on a few occasions, imo out weighing that one off rather light comment. Still a daft thing to say though admitted.

Oscar's contradiction has been mentioned many times on this board and he was ridiculed by most of the members of this forum for choseing Pacman over Margarito. I never said other boxers don't talk nonsense but Calzaghe is always excused for his blips by certain posters.

The comment where he nearly admitted his chances with a prime Jones are slim to none was made in 2003 after the comments you posted. These were Calzaghe's latest thoughts on the subject. So IMO they should hold more weight.

[bsrizpac]

Oscar's contradiction has been mentioned many times on this board and he was ridiculed by most of the members of this forum for choseing Pacman over Margarito. I never said other boxers don't talk nonsense but Calzaghe is always excused for his blips by certain posters.

The comment where he nearly admitted his chances with a prime Jones are slim to none was made in 2003 after the comments you posted. These were Calzaghe's latest thoughts on the subject. So IMO they should hold more weight.

This is a typical Kris post. tons of excuses. There is an excuse for EVERYTHING ****** Calzaghe does.

Bottom line, Calzaghe can huff and puff and talk about Jones all he wanted. Fact is he never did JACK **** to TRY and get that fight. All he always had were excuses.

The quote above reveals why he didn't try harder to get that fight.

[bsrizpac]

Robin Reid deserved a rematch at the very least IMO.

Remember when that coward Mayweather wouldn't rematch Castillo?


Remember when Warrior Joe immediately offered Bernard a rematch to put any performance criticism to rest?

What a warrior!

[Tony628]

This is a typical Kris post. tons of excuses. There is an excuse for EVERYTHING ****** Calzaghe does.

Bottom line, Calzaghe can huff and puff and talk about Jones all he wanted. Fact is he never did JACK **** to TRY and get that fight. All he always had were excuses.

The quote above reveals why he didn't try harder to get that fight.

and this is from hbo who are american based.

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[Chunk..]

Hatton easily him fighting Mayweather trumped Joe fighting unproven prospects and old legends. Cant wait for your next installment Who hits harder George Foreman or Chris Byrd

There's no need to get lemon you prick!

[Enemy/Friend]

and this is from hbo who are american based.

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That's odd Calzaghe nor Enzo haven't made the claim that Roy avoided him?

Who wrote that bio Ricky?

[Kris Silver]

Oscar's contradiction has been mentioned many times on this board and he was ridiculed by most of the members of this forum for choseing Pacman over Margarito. I never said other boxers don't talk nonsense but Calzaghe is always excused for his blips by certain posters.

The comment where he nearly admitted his chances with a prime Jones are slim to none was made in 2003 after the comments you posted. These were Calzaghe's latest thoughts on the subject. So IMO they should hold more weight.

I'm not excusing Joe's comments and said they were daft, but people say things at times that can be taken out of context. This isn't an overly strong comment saying he wouldn't face him, by any means. Further still people say things in the heat of the moment they may not mean or stand by, or truly think. It's not worth getting worked up about and ranting about like it means something profound, frankly doing so looks a little desperate to criticise with any little thing.

Saying the later comment holds more weight is a rather convenient overly simplistic way of looking at it. He didn't even say he wouldn't face Jones in that comment, yet loads of times he actually said he wanted to definitely fight him and is not scared of him, bring it on. So it's clear to me no matter who says such things, that the more regularly said stronger comments hold more weight. Further still why would Calzaghe say I'll face Jones post 2004 when he's been knocked out a few times, just to be 'the latest comment'. That doesn't make sense given he was being knocked out. He's said also I'm pretty sure post 2004 that he would have faced Jones back in the day, and only did because he got on the winning trail again.

I disagree that Osca got more criticism than Calzaghe. I'm on these boards a lot and read through a lot of threads on those topics, and Calzaghe got far more criticism than the direct clear and profounder contradictions of Osca's as far as I saw.