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Calzaghe has Wright back-up plan
Joe Calzaghe's super middleweight unification fight with Jeff Lacy is still alive, but he now has a back-up plan to face Ronald 'Winky' Wright.
WBO champion Calzaghe broke his left hand beating Evans Ashira, ruling out a 5 November fight with IBF champ Lacy.
Calzaghe's promoter, Frank Warren, is still hopeful that Lacy's camp will honour a reserve date of 4 February.
But Warren revealed that US promoter Don King has said he can make a fight with ex-light middleweight king Wright.
"Calzaghe versus Lacy will happen on February the 4th unless they pull out," Warren told BBC Sport Wales.
"In the meantime I've spoken to Don King and he says that if there is a problem then he has an option on Winky Wright and we can make that fight.
"One thing's for sure is that whatever happens in February when Joe is fit to box - and only when he's fit to box - that it will be in a big fight."
In 2004 Wright became the first boxer for nearly three decades to unify the light middleweight division.
But since then Wright - like Calzaghe a 33-year-old southpaw - has vowed to ignore titles and seek out big money fights across the weight divisions.
King was at ringside on Saturday night in Cardiff to see his fighter Ashira given a boxing lesson by Calzaghe, who managed to win the last eight rounds fighting one-handed after his injury.
One possible complication is that Lacy's promoter, Gary Shaw, also has an interest in Wright.
Shaw has publicly criticised Calzaghe and Warren for pulling out of the 5 November fight.
"Truthfully, I'm very angry right now," Shaw told the St Petersburg Times. "I'm trying to keep it together, but yes, I'm angry at Frank Warren, I'm angry at Joe Calzaghe.
"They took a meaningless fight with a 160-pounder, and Calzaghe talked all along about how he was going to hurt himself.
"He should have never taken that fight to begin with. We knew he would use it as an opportunity to pull out of the fight."
However, Warren has hit back at Shaw for daring to suggest the cancellation is for anything other than genuine reasons.
"Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually," Warren added.
"But he should get the facts right: the fight's been postponed because Joe has a genuine injury, but he obviously didn't believe that.
"More importantly he talks as if we've tried to postpone this fight six or seven times, which we haven't.
"I don't see why he should pull out - I do hope the fight does go ahead on the 4th (of February) and we will know fairly soon whether that will be the case.
"Joe is in plaster for a month and he certainly won't be punching for six weeks after that.
"He'll tick over but he won't be sparring or hitting punch bags until then."
Calzaghe has Wright back-up plan
Joe Calzaghe's super middleweight unification fight with Jeff Lacy is still alive, but he now has a back-up plan to face Ronald 'Winky' Wright.
WBO champion Calzaghe broke his left hand beating Evans Ashira, ruling out a 5 November fight with IBF champ Lacy.
Calzaghe's promoter, Frank Warren, is still hopeful that Lacy's camp will honour a reserve date of 4 February.
But Warren revealed that US promoter Don King has said he can make a fight with ex-light middleweight king Wright.
"Calzaghe versus Lacy will happen on February the 4th unless they pull out," Warren told BBC Sport Wales.
"In the meantime I've spoken to Don King and he says that if there is a problem then he has an option on Winky Wright and we can make that fight.
"One thing's for sure is that whatever happens in February when Joe is fit to box - and only when he's fit to box - that it will be in a big fight."
In 2004 Wright became the first boxer for nearly three decades to unify the light middleweight division.
But since then Wright - like Calzaghe a 33-year-old southpaw - has vowed to ignore titles and seek out big money fights across the weight divisions.
King was at ringside on Saturday night in Cardiff to see his fighter Ashira given a boxing lesson by Calzaghe, who managed to win the last eight rounds fighting one-handed after his injury.
One possible complication is that Lacy's promoter, Gary Shaw, also has an interest in Wright.
Shaw has publicly criticised Calzaghe and Warren for pulling out of the 5 November fight.
"Truthfully, I'm very angry right now," Shaw told the St Petersburg Times. "I'm trying to keep it together, but yes, I'm angry at Frank Warren, I'm angry at Joe Calzaghe.
"They took a meaningless fight with a 160-pounder, and Calzaghe talked all along about how he was going to hurt himself.
"He should have never taken that fight to begin with. We knew he would use it as an opportunity to pull out of the fight."
However, Warren has hit back at Shaw for daring to suggest the cancellation is for anything other than genuine reasons.
"Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually," Warren added.
"But he should get the facts right: the fight's been postponed because Joe has a genuine injury, but he obviously didn't believe that.
"More importantly he talks as if we've tried to postpone this fight six or seven times, which we haven't.
"I don't see why he should pull out - I do hope the fight does go ahead on the 4th (of February) and we will know fairly soon whether that will be the case.
"Joe is in plaster for a month and he certainly won't be punching for six weeks after that.
"He'll tick over but he won't be sparring or hitting punch bags until then."
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