Joe Calzaghe Would Continue if Knocked Out Like Hatton

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Once again, Jones and Calzaghe wasnt a viable fight. They were just on two different wavelenghts throughout their careers in terms of marketability/name value.

Calzaghe did talk about wanting to fight Jones as early as the Reid fight. And Jones spoke about coming down to 168 to fight Joe when his opposition at 175 (bar Dariusz M) had dried up. He decided to move up to heavyweight instead, fair play to him, that was a more historically significant and financially rewarding route. So there was no "ducking" involved.

[WESS]

2002

You should have know that, its one of his carer defnining fights.

I was thinking that fight was in 2003......

I think he was peaking in the late 90's.....

[Technical_Skill]

I was thinking that fight was in 2003......

I think he was peaking in the late 90's.....

Yeah, im just taking the piss mate.

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Damn, Calzaghe gets talked about soo much on here.

Thats great ****ing news

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Damn, Calzaghe gets talked about soo much on here.

Thats great ****ing news

Lol.......it is quite funny. Even on Youtube, his videos are all spammed constantly. At least we can rely on these folk to keep Joe's name forever in the spotlight

[WESS]

Nobody's ever going to sell me on that guy, he's appalling. 'Reasoning' isn't merit-worthy if its consistently ****-eyed.

haha good ol' Kris..... you cant hate on that guy.... Its always fun to get into it with him over Joe Calzaghe but all in all hes a good guy!

[WESS]

Damn, Calzaghe gets talked about soo much on here.

Thats great ****ing news

Yes of course any undefeated fighter will always get talked about. Shoulda, coulda, woulda type..... lol

[WESS]

Yeah, im just taking the piss mate.

I got ya! lol

[bsrizpac]

It's not my fault you lack knowledge. People who followed boxing at the time knew about this. lol

Everyone knew about this article num nuts. It's not anything new. But cong**** on failing to read it and understand what it was saying.

NOWHERE did it say there was an offer to fight in America. But nice try.

[bsrizpac]

Not when he can't make the limit. Considering Hopkins is a natural SMW who boiled down to MW it isn't really a huge ask for him to fight at 168.



Jones got worldwide recognition for going to the olympics and getting robbed. Calzaghe got robbed of going to the olympics and wasnt even a household name in UK for years. Naz had the spotlight at the time and then Hatton. The irony is Jones shouldn't have went to the olympics and Calzaghe should have. McClellan really beat Jones. If you break Jones' resume down it's ****. His best wins are a severely weight-drained Toney and green Hopkins.



Yeah Lacy was obviously a legit threat at the time even though he was proven to be overrated. 95% of boxers, pundits, fans thought Lacy was going to destroy Lacy. Now we have all the hindsight experts who knew all along Lacy was overrated. lol

You can't blame Calzaghe for Jones, Hopkins and even Ottke,not wanting to fight him.



Calzaghe called for the fight and Showtime made the offer.

You can just picture them all shaking in there boots out of fear of a guy who fills backyard arenas in Wales to fight David Starie.