Joe Calzaghe vs Prime Roy Jones jr, James Toney, Andre Ward

Calzaghe clears.

 

Prime Roy isn't beating VADA and neither is Toney and let's not forget that Ward was extremely reluctant to do random drug testing for a long time to the extent he would get visibly annoyed when pressed about it, enlisted the services of PED guru Victor Conte, mysteriously developed back and chest acne at LHW and that he's one of the dirtiest fighters of all time and that fouling and cheating religiously was the most integral part of his game plan.

He was also managed by notorious extremely shady gangster James Prince and that would deeply concern me if I was fighting one of his fighters in the US so lots of red flags there

But we know for a fact that Roy and Toney were PED cheats and were artificially enhanced but they receive and have always received an obligatory free pass for it from so many for as long as I've been on here and had Joe, who I would trust as much as anyone not to have been a PED cheat, been caught juicing he would be crucified on a molten cross for it and his entire legacy torn to shreds as would Usyk If he did too and there is zero argument against that so it begs the question why is that? Hmm..

 

Joe Calzaghe

"I would hate to fight a cheat and I don't believe in cheating in any sport. I'm not calling him a cheat and I don't know what was taken or what happened," Calzaghe told The People. "I have to remember to take my vitamin C every morning and I believe in a fair fight."

He says that even if his opponent, Jones or otherwise, took an illegal steroid, he would still beat them.

"In athletics, a cheat gets disqualified, but in boxing if you get your ass kicked and then he's found to be a cheat, it doesn't matter because you can't reverse the decision and you've still had your ass kicked.

''In athletics drug cheats get banned automatically for two years, and if steroids can make athletes run faster, they can surely help a boxer to hit harder and to hit for longer and this will enable them to inflict more punishment, which I think is repulsive. During our pre-fight medicals we get tested for drugs and it's never crossed my mind to take anything performance-enhancing. I don't have a big pot of pills that I dip into all hours of the day. In fact, I have a job just to remind myself to take vitamins.

''I would be angry if someone I fought took something that gave him an unfair advantage because this is a dangerous sport, it's not like running. In athletics it now seems almost part of the culture, just like cycling, and the who idea is to stay one step ahead of testing. I sat alongside Justin Gatlin, at the time the reigning Olympic 100m champion, on the BBC's Question of Sport about a year ago and spoke to him afterwards. We talked about the Jeff Lacy fight because he's from Florida as well and he seemed like a really nice guy and I was genuinely shocked and disappointed when he failed a drugs test last summer. Whenever I watch athletics or cycling now I have my suspicions. Some get caught and some don't but I like to think that fighters are clean. Boxing's a warrior sport and, to me, there have always been values that go along with that.

''It's cheating there's no other word for it.''