Calzaghe Rejects Golden Boy Offer For Hopkins Rematch

[Dr.Dre]

i dont think anyone wants to see this fight anywho

[Roger Mellie]

Who will he make 10 million dollars fighting in this economic condition?

Nobody,hence the retirement.

[Technical_Skill]

Hopkins had 36 minutes in a boxing ring to take Joe to school,and could barely get anything going at all.

Apart from knock him down in round 1, land the cleaner more effective punches all night long and have calzaghe swinging and missing for the majority of the fight.

Calzaghe won the fight cos idiot judges give rounds to a guy based on how many punches he throws, they dont care if they land or not. If you score that fight on CLEAN and EFFECTIVE punches LANDED.

Calzaghe didnt win that fight, thus why some wanna see a rematch.

[Roger Mellie]

i dont think anyone wants to see this fight anywho

Nice avatar pic!

[Technical_Skill]

Nobody,hence the retirement.

Oh sorry, I thought it was about 'Career defining fights' for joe.

[Roger Mellie]

Apart from knock him down in round 1, land the cleaner more effective punches all night long and have calzaghe swinging and missing for the majority of the fight.

Calzaghe won the fight cos idiot judges give rounds to a guy based on how many punches he throws, they dont care if they land or not. If you score that fight on CLEAN and EFFECTIVE punches LANDED.

Calzaghe didnt win that fight, thus why some wanna see a rematch.

Landed about 3 clean punches all night more like.Joe won.

[Roger Mellie]

Oh sorry, I thought it was about 'Career defining fights' for joe.

No,it was about money,just like it was for b-hop in 2002

[Dave Rado]

His last good performance was against Kessler. He actually looked like a boxer.

That's because styles make fights. Calzaghe's basically a spoiler, so is Hopkins, so any fight between them is going to be ugly, and they'll always look bad against each other. Jones is also a counter-puncher, and so is Calzaghe, so they cancel each other out. Calzaghe looks good against aggressive fighters who want to mix it up with him. He's been in plenty of exciting fights, but those two fighters' styles just make him look bad.

[Dave Rado]

Few Questions:

Who outside of Hardcore Boxing circles knew who Kessler was? Bernard Hopkins didnt even know who Kesslar was

As I keep saying, it's a different point in his career. At that time he was motivated because he hadn't already achieved what he wanted to achieve. Now, he feels he has, and he's older, and mentally ready to retire. As I keep saying, he made it clear that if he'd continued, Dawson would have been his next fight. Also, he had planned long ago to retire in November - the fact that he reconsidered for two months is a compliment to Dawson - he wouldn't have even considered postponing his retirement for anyone else.

What do you think does more for his legacy, Becoming the undisputed best in 2 weight classes by beating the man some (like floyd mayweather) see as the future p4p no 1, or beating a shot roy jones who had already been KTFO twice before that and lost to tarver again after that too?

Jones does nothing for his legacy but he had wanted to fight Jones for years, but for whatever reason (boxing politics, because he was tied to Showtime, Roy was tied to HBO, and because Warren screwed it up) it didn't come off; and he genuinely thought after the Trinidad fight that Jones still had something left in the tank after all. He fought Jones because of what it meant to him, not for some mythical legacy.

In any case, before the Jones fight, most people were saying he should fight Pavlik rather than Jones, very few were saying he should fight Dawson back then.

[Slater P Persin]

Apart from knock him down in round 1, land the cleaner more effective punches all night long and have calzaghe swinging and missing for the majority of the fight.

Calzaghe won the fight cos idiot judges give rounds to a guy based on how many punches he throws, they dont care if they land or not.

Clearly....