Joe Calzaghe's career - is it me or is just highly puzzling?

[Smash]

The thread starter asks why didnt calzaghe fight the likes of mundine (LOL), who quickly lost the belt to siaca. Everybody knows, including mundines camp that mundine will lose to calzaghe and mundines attempt to make a relatively easy defence and not go for the number 1 ranked guy, against which he will probably lose anyway is par for the course with these things. Asking why calzaghe didnt unify against these no hopers who held a belt for 1 or 2 fights is pure ridiculous, if there was a way im sure you couldnt get calzaghe fast enough into the ring with the likes of mundine and the rest of them. Total fail

[crold1]

For every article you post, I can bring one up. Please note in Tim Smith's NY Daily News article posted in 2002, he noted that - due to Square Ring's inability to negotiate a deal with Universum - HBO stepped in to work out something. And note that they found Kohl's terms unagreeable. Michalchewski was a pretty good fighter in his day but I think to argue Jones ducked him is as simple as arguing Michalchewski ducked Jones. Now Vasily Jirov on the other hand...

It was a lot like Hopkins-Jones II...both guys could make plenty fighting others, not enough to fight each other.

So they didn't.

[Smash]

This idea that calzaghe didnt want jones is totally false. It didnt take me long to find plenty of quotes from calzaghe telling people he wants the big fights and the biggest one out there is roy jones. This extract is from september 2000

Wales' WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe has thrown down the gauntlet to Roy Jones Jr.
Few would care to cross Jones, the undisputed light-heavyweight king and a man recently nominated as Fighter of the Decade.

Yet Calzaghe is unworried: "I have no fear whatsoever of Jones... I would jump on the next plane to the States and defend my title against him in his own backyard if the opportunity arose," he said.

Or another one

"Jones is supposed to be the best fighter in the world at the moment. A showdown between us has got to happen to prove who is the best."

Check out one of the articles for yourself

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/wales/921983.stm