Has any fighter under Warren ever taken a high risk fight? Hatton said that Warren just wanted him to stay in Manchester and defend his WBU belt. He also had Calzaghe fighting one WBO mandatory and one journeyman per year
I've got to be careful what I say about Warren because it's already given me a ban, but I feel he does rinse his fighters against journeymen at some stage to make as much money as he can. I mean, it is his job but there was a time where Calzaghe and Hatton were aimless in their meander of journeyman after journeyman. Both have pretty good records in my opinion and eventually did step up and face good fighters. A lot of people on here simply whitewash their records as being **** when it's simply not the case.
Thanks for posting this. I read that Hatton didnt fight a top ten condender during the first 5 years of his career as well. I heard something about Naseem breaking away from him as well because he thought Warren was holding him back
Warren has always said it was Calzaghe that didn't want to travel, something I've never seen Joe deny.
Joe has denied that there were articles on the bbc website, where he said he was willing to go to America to fight Hopkins and Jones.
As a diss to Warren in his first fight under new management, he played a song to the crowd which had the chorus of "I'll get along fine without you". They didn't really part on amicable terms with Warren claiming he still had rights over Hatton. He eventually dropped the law suit. Fwanky boy was well pissed off when Adam Smith of Sky said to Hatton about "other options" to which Hatton didn't have a chance to reply. Fwank was straight in there giving it large. They actually had to do a follow up interview because Smith rocked the boat. Many British posters were actually quite disillusioned with the opposition at times, which is why it suprises me when posters who stick up for Hatton get "well you're British you would say that" as a standard response.
Yeah, with Jones I can agree. However he beat the Hopkins who had just beaten Tarver and went on to destroy Pavlik. So he wasn't in bad form.
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Warren never parts on good terms with any of his fighters, I remember he tried to take Benn to court early in his career after he broke away from Warren Im sure Hatton was as well, how are you expected to grow when you are fighting guys who have no chance against you?
It's become the norm for Calzaghe fans to use Warren as a convenient scapegoat whenever people criticize Joe's abysmal resume from 1997 til 2006. I refuse to believe that Joe was too weak or too scared to force Warren to get him better fights. He feasted on bums for the best part of a decade because he wanted to, he was happy to protect the zero and line his pockets in his home nation. By 2006, he realized his legacy was a big fat nothing, and kicked it up a notch. I'm very glad he did, because the performances against Lacy and Kessler were superb.