Glen Johnson: "Joe Calzaghe Was Scared. He Backed Out Of 3 Fights"

[Bright-Eyes]

Joe Calzaghe clearly ducked Glen Johnson.It's pretty sad that Calzaghe is being viewed now as some sort of a legend.

Has far as i know calzaghe was suppose to fight Johnson at 175, He was also suppose to fight Clinton woods at 175 but for some reason the fight didnt happen also.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4861904.stm

[VipersThunder]

There were, but he wasn't fighting them. Look at Boxrec and see who Calzaghe fought between 2004 and the Lacy fight. None of those guys were big names.

You think that's bad? Look at the list of bums Joe fought from 1993 to 2007 if you want a good laugh.

[VipersThunder]

There were, but he wasn't fighting them. Look at Boxrec and see who Calzaghe fought between 2004 and the Lacy fight. None of those guys were big names.

You think that's bad? Look at the list of bums Joe fought from 1993 to 2007 if you want a good laugh.

[Ray*]

Frank Warren did a great job of protecting his fighters. He protected Hatton for 35 fights. Unfortunately for them(Ricky Hatton for example), once the protection ended, they got exposed. If Warren had any inkling that Amir Khan would get KO'd by the guy who knocked him out in the first round, he never would have put him in the ring with him. He did a great job of protecting Calzaghe and, fortunately for Calzaghe, 168 was a weak division during the time he fought in it. If Calzaghe had fought at 160 or 175 during the main part of his career, he would have been beaten routinely by quality fighters.

Finally someone that knows what they're talking about, Warren has to be one of the most talented promoters that i have ever heard of, He would line up bums for his fighters while proclaiming them to be the second coming.

Sometimes he has fighters who are actually good like Calzaghe or Naz but he still doesnt get them to fight the fights you want to see unless the risk is stacked in their favour along with the money.

Problem is the guy knowns how to sell a boxer to the public and the media, He knows how to make the media love a boxer because he has a team of PR people who puts out the right message about certain fighter just to gain public votes.

Just check his history and the list of his fighters with records of 35-0 or 40-0 who hasnt really fought anyone of note even at age 27 plus, He tried to do the samething with Maccarinelli before he got expose against Haye(They though Haye was weight drain and wouldnt have taken the fight if Haye didnt conned them into it).

[Clint650]

Joe may beat Glen now, but back then it's a big IF. Johnson was a threat to anyone during that time.

[ИATAS]

Glen would have been whooped worse than Lazy.

So you're saying the Glen Johnson that KO'd jones (and I remind you he didn't get some lucky punch, he was whoopin Jones' ass bad), Calzaghe would beat him worse than Lacy?!? LMAO, idiot post of the day. Joe may very well have won, but no way in hell he wins easy.

[The_Demon]

i like jonson but hes just talking silly
i would like too have seen joe fight him as he is a tough guy and it would have been a good scrap,its a shame calz hands were so ****ed he would have won a UD

[Dirk Diggler UK]

I guess since **** Diggler never heard anything about it, it must not be true because **** is the expert on all things boxing!!"peeleft:

Lol.....i guess when you're out of arguments, you turn to playground insults.

[Easy-E]

Glen Johnson: "Well, Joe Calzaghe and I had 3 dates to fight and he backed out of every one of them.." Hit play for a 2 minute clip where Johnson reveals what happened during the potential Joe Calzaghe match up(s).

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Glen's style would have caused some serious problems for Joe.

[edgarg]

no disprespect to joe, but we should all know(esspecially his fans) that's he's a bit of a frightened child, he was suppossedly scared of fighting lacy, good thing his father got him in the right mindstate
i would'nt say calzaghe was not afraid of johnson, which he could've been
but im also not gonna he would've lost to johnson because i just dont think he would

i can see calzaghe winning a ud only if he grew the balls

Gosh do you sound simple-minded. Calzaghe is one of the best fighters of the past 20 years, undoubtedly the best by far of all the 168 pounders since that division began.