Froch turned down a fight with Calzaghe.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Is this the reason Joe turned down Froch when he was his mandatory then ?

Gave up his belts to move up to Light-Heavyweight for a much bigger fight against Hopkins obviously.

[Box-Office]

All promoters ask for options though. This must have been before Froch was mandatory to the WBC title.

Froch probably wanted to get into a mandatory position so he didn't have to sign options with Warren.

That's when Calzaghe moved up to pursue bigger fights.

Warren mentions how Froch wanted to know when Calzaghe moves up to LHW?

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Warren mentions how Froch wanted to know when Calzaghe moves up to LHW?

Calzaghe was supposed to move up to Light Heavyweight a few times. There was the proposed Glen Johnson fight for example, which fell through.

[ИATAS]

Chris Eubank said the hardest he's ever been hit was the shot a young Calzaghe dropped him with in the first round. I'll take his and others opinion of yours, since they took the shots.

Chris Eubank has said a lot of BS over the years. He was also past his best days by that point.

He also dropped Hopkins with a body shot with shot hands and Hopkins faked a low blow. And i say that as a huge Hopkins fan.

Choke yourself please. Hopkins didn't get dropped obviously. He was hit low and he took a breather (you get up to five minutes by rule and surely Hopkins milked it as long as possible). Getting dropped means a fighter was legitimately knocked down, obviously he suffered no knockdown.

He did have power but he couldn't put much into 99% of his shots because his hands were a wreck.

No he didn't have power. I'm sure he had some pop just like someone like Timothy Bradley has some pop. But at no point in his career was he a powerful puncher.

[Cuban Linx]

He also avoided Adonis Stevenson

[ИATAS]

Calzaghe was supposed to move up to Light Heavyweight a few times. There was the proposed Glen Johnson fight for example, which fell through.

It fell through four times actually, all excuses from Calzaghe. After Johnson KOd the man Calzaghe thought was the greatest fighter ever in Jones, he wanted no part. Which is sad. Calzaghe definitely was scared of challenging himself throughout his career. He probably could have accomplished a lot more if he didn't have that fear of failing but then again if he had tougher stretches of fights, instead of fighting one good fighter every few years, maybe he wouldn't have lasted as long. We'll never know.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

It fell through four times actually, all excuses from Calzaghe. After Johnson KOd the man Calzaghe thought was the greatest fighter ever in Jones, he wanted no part. Which is sad. Calzaghe definitely was scared of challenging himself throughout his career. He probably could have accomplished a lot more if he didn't have that fear of failing but then again if he had tougher stretches of fights, instead of fighting one good fighter every few years, maybe he wouldn't have lasted as long. We'll never know.

Inaccurate. The fight fell through before Johnson fought Jones. Johnson was basically a journeyman at the time who'd gone life n death with Clinton Woods.

[imperial1]

Calzaghe was supposed to move up to Light Heavyweight a few times. There was the proposed Glen Johnson fight for example, which fell through.

He a tually pulled out the bout with Johnson 3 times ..


Also even though he went and fought a shot Jones and Hopkins the fight with Froch would have been huge at the time

[Dirk Diggler UK]

He a tually pulled out the bout with Johnson 3 times ..


Also even though he went and fought a shot Jones and Hopkins the fight with Froch would have been huge at the time

Not really. Froch was virtually unknown at the time. Not even in the same stratosphere as a fight with Hopkins in America. A complete revision of history.

[imperial1]

Not really. Froch was virtually unknown at the time. Not even in the same stratosphere as a fight with Hopkins in America. A complete revision of history.

Froch could have been his Tarver ..and I think domestically it would have done well you don't think ?