Did Hopkins and Jones Jnr miss out on what would have been their most defining fights

Did Hopkins and Jones Jnr miss out on what would have been their most defining fights?

Hopkins avoided Calzaghe for years, in a fight that would have made him a serious legend if he had of won. Instead Hopkins waited till he had the odds stacked in his favour with getting Calzaghe to fight at a new weight in America with 3 American judges and Cortez as ref, and got beat.
But just imagine if Hopkins had of challenged himself against the SMW Calzaghe when he was MW champ and pulled off the upset and won.
Calzaghe was willing to let Hopkins have the fight in America.
It would have been Hopkins biggest victory.
Did Hopkins miss out on a defining fight?

Jones never seemed to want to fight Michalczewski the man at LHW. Michalczewski would have been Jones biggest victory against a then undefeated 2 weight champ who had claim to all of Jones belts.
Michalczewski was WBO LHW champ who made about 23 defences and won and vacated the WBA & IBF belts and beat Rocchigiani who was wrongly stripped of his WBC belt.
Michalczewski was the man at LHW and should have been Ring champ for his victory over Hill, but the Ring just awarded its belt to Jones out of popularity in America, and didnt follow the original line of you have to beat the man to be the man policy. Michalczewski beat the man.
Michalczewski was willing to let Jones have the fight in America.
If Jones had of won it would have been his biggest victory.
Did Jones miss out on a defining fight?

 

Do you feel that is yes for both of them?

 

Interesting points. Jones decided to gamble after finding out that his chin was vulnerable. I guess we looked past how hurt he was by Del Valle all those years ago.
Jones may have beaten Michalczewski, but Im not convinced. Michalczewski after a slow start, I think would have given Jones alot of problems and we will never know if Jones was fighting clean or not. I think Michalczewski would have beaten Jones, why else was Jones constantly making excuses not to fight him?

 

Michalczewski was willing to travel, As you note, Jones wasnt. You have already noted that Michalczewski had already done more travelling than Jones had then, and then say Dariusz wasnt looking to leave his country atsch.
Jones said it took some years for his body to adapt back to LHW, and when he did, he looked good beating fighters like Ajamu, Trinidad etc but then came his real test against a true elite fighter in Calzaghe and he wasnt able to compete. Still Jones looked good being the first fighter to stop Lacy and beating Sheika in 5 rounds who recently gave world rated LHW Diaconu a tough fight.

 

:happy

 

Really :huh. Im surprised

 

How wrong can someone be. Calzaghe fought outside of the UK more than once, and didnt get embarrased by Hopkins. He won and beat the top LHW in his first fight at a new weight atsch. Also the fight was offered to Hopkins years ago in America. Are you really this ignorant.
A past peak Dariusz lost a disputed decision to Gonzalez, but you could also note that Gonzalez beat G Johnson who destroyed Jones.
Toney who was losing to D Thadzi atsch.
Thanks for the laughs