Attn: Calzaghe fans- Why would Joe say this about Roy Jones?

[bsrizpac]

I have no idea what conditions Calzaghe would have expected, but he would certainly have expected his biggest payday to date. Compared to what Jones was earning, it certainly wouldn't have been a huge purse and that would probably have been the only condition Calzaghe would have demanded. Even if the WBO belt was less respected back then, comparing it to the NABO is silly.

You need to recheck the status of the WBO in the 90's. It was a joke, it wasn't the NABO obviously but worrying about the comparison is obviously semantics.

The bottom line that you and I know is: if Joe really wanted that fight, he could have gotten it.

It's his fault for pissing his talent away in his prime, no one else

[P4P Opinion]

You need to recheck the status of the WBO in the 90's. It was a joke, it wasn't the NABO obviously but worrying about the comparison is obviously semantics.

The bottom line that you and I know is: if Joe really wanted that fight, he could have gotten it.

It's his fault for pissing his talent away in his prime, no one else

I'm not so sure he could have. We'll never know for a fact anyway, so I'm going to leave this here. I suspect Frank Warren stopped any chance of the fight and would have stopped any chance of the fight if there had been one.

[bsrizpac]

I'm not so sure he could have. We'll never know for a fact anyway, so I'm going to leave this here. I suspect Frank Warren stopped any chance of the fight and would have stopped any chance of the fight if there had been one.

So if you're Joe what do you do?

Leave Frank- take a risk?

Or continue to talk **** and hide behind your title taking on the Branko Sobots and Evans Ashiras of the world?

Like I said- Hatton realized what Frank was and at least stepped up. Joe always had some excuse. Like his patented "fear of flying" for always wanting home court.