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[TheGreatA]

Spud: Joe Calzaghe. Many people feel you won the first fight against Calzaghe. Do you want to fight him again, and has there been any serious offers to fight Joe since the first fight?

RR: I have to say to the first part yep I feel I won the first fight as well. I have studied a tape of it and I seriously believe I won that fight by at least 2 rounds and that includes the point deduction for the low blow. Each time I watch the tape, I think I won even more!!! The Referee always seemed to be on my case, don't get me wrong I think myself and Joe in that fight were as bad as each other, but it just seemed the Referee was always blaming me.

Everyone thinks I got paid an absolute fortune for that fight, bearing in mind I was the WBC holder, I really thought I would receive about 100k, it wasn't as if I was going into that fight as unknown! I made 3 successful defences of the WBC Title. I got paid 75k and it was only last year I received the last of the purse due to a dispute!

We thought bearing in mind how close the first fight was we would get paid a decent amount for a second fight, especially when so many people thought I won the first one. I was told I would get paid what I was worth, I was told it would be an offer I could not refuse, in the end all I was offered was 90k, that was only 15k more than the first time around.

No one could tell me that people would not have been interested in a second fight, all I wanted was to be paid for what I was worth! To be honest I thought I was going to be offered 150k and as I say I was offered 90k, that is why the second fight never came. It was shortly after that I signed for Jess Harding.

[ALT=_=Assassin]

Because "a fan" is biased.

Exactly

[ALT=_=Assassin]

Spud: Joe Calzaghe. Many people feel you won the first fight against Calzaghe. Do you want to fight him again, and has there been any serious offers to fight Joe since the first fight?

RR: I have to say to the first part yep I feel I won the first fight as well. I have studied a tape of it and I seriously believe I won that fight by at least 2 rounds and that includes the point deduction for the low blow. Each time I watch the tape, I think I won even more!!! The Referee always seemed to be on my case, don't get me wrong I think myself and Joe in that fight were as bad as each other, but it just seemed the Referee was always blaming me.

Everyone thinks I got paid an absolute fortune for that fight, bearing in mind I was the WBC holder, I really thought I would receive about 100k, it wasn't as if I was going into that fight as unknown! I made 3 successful defences of the WBC Title. I got paid 75k and it was only last year I received the last of the purse due to a dispute!

We thought bearing in mind how close the first fight was we would get paid a decent amount for a second fight, especially when so many people thought I won the first one. I was told I would get paid what I was worth, I was told it would be an offer I could not refuse, in the end all I was offered was 90k, that was only 15k more than the first time around.

No one could tell me that people would not have been interested in a second fight, all I wanted was to be paid for what I was worth! To be honest I thought I was going to be offered 150k and as I say I was offered 90k, that is why the second fight never came. It was shortly after that I signed for Jess Harding.

Now this is Reid talking some sense.......

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Spud: Joe Calzaghe. Many people feel you won the first fight against Calzaghe. Do you want to fight him again, and has there been any serious offers to fight Joe since the first fight?

RR: I have to say to the first part yep I feel I won the first fight as well. I have studied a tape of it and I seriously believe I won that fight by at least 2 rounds and that includes the point deduction for the low blow. Each time I watch the tape, I think I won even more!!! The Referee always seemed to be on my case, don't get me wrong I think myself and Joe in that fight were as bad as each other, but it just seemed the Referee was always blaming me.

Everyone thinks I got paid an absolute fortune for that fight, bearing in mind I was the WBC holder, I really thought I would receive about 100k, it wasn't as if I was going into that fight as unknown! I made 3 successful defences of the WBC Title. I got paid 75k and it was only last year I received the last of the purse due to a dispute!

We thought bearing in mind how close the first fight was we would get paid a decent amount for a second fight, especially when so many people thought I won the first one. I was told I would get paid what I was worth, I was told it would be an offer I could not refuse, in the end all I was offered was 90k, that was only 15k more than the first time around.

No one could tell me that people would not have been interested in a second fight, all I wanted was to be paid for what I was worth! To be honest I thought I was going to be offered 150k and as I say I was offered 90k, that is why the second fight never came. It was shortly after that I signed for Jess Harding.

Hey, it was only later when Reid started complaining. That's a fact. Reid can talk all he wants, but at the time he had no complaints. Just watch the interview after the fight.

And why does Reid think he's worth MORE money for a rematch? He'd just lost to Calzaghe. How the hell can he expect to be paid more?

Warren said "Reid is a cheeky bastard". And in this case, I actually agree with Warren.



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By the way, these guys should have fought again. I would imagine Joe would be 100% fit for the rematch. In the first, he had a smashed up hand. That's the only reason it was a close fight.



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[The Hammer]

Hey, it was only later when Reid started complaining. That's a fact. Reid can talk all he wants, but at the time he had no complaints. Just watch the interview after the fight.

And why does Reid think he's worth MORE money for a rematch? He'd just lost to Calzaghe. How the hell can he expect to be paid more?

Warren said "Reid is a cheeky bastard". And in this case, I actually agree with Warren.

Exactly.

I figured TheManchine would try to emphasize Reid's later comments about his fight with Joe in this thread. TheManchine will do anything in his own subtle way to try to convince people Calzaghe wasn't a great fighter...

[ALT=_=Assassin]

I figured TheManchine would try to emphasize Reid's later comments about his fight with Joe in this thread. He'll do anything in his own subtle way to try to convince people Calzaghe wasn't a great fighter...

No offense, you seem a bit paranoid. Why would a certain poster have an agenda against Calzaghe? It sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.

[TheGreatA]

Exactly.

I figured TheManchine would try to emphasize Reid's later comments about his fight with Joe in this thread. TheManchine will do anything in his own subtle way to try to convince people Calzaghe wasn't a great fighter...

This is what I said:

Reid did complain about the decision although it was only after he had re-watched the fight.

He turned down a rematch for money issues.

Which I backed up with a Robin Reid interview.

[The Hammer]

No offense, you seem a bit paranoid. Why would a certain poster have an agenda against Calzaghe? It sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.

If you can't see that Calzaghe has a lot of haters - daggum, bsrizpac, TheManchine, etc. - than you must be blind or really, really ******.

[ALT=_=Assassin]

If you can't see that Calzaghe has a lot of haters - daggum, bsrizpac, TheManchine, etc. - than you must be blind or really, really ******.

Every fighter has haters. Mayweather,Klitschko,Jones,Hopkins, you name a fighter and I can find you a hater. That wasn't the point I was trying to make. You singled out The Machine as if he actually said something negative towards Calzaghe. His post didn't sound hateful and in no way do I see an agenda behind it.