A couple of whispers...

True if he fought Hopins @ the Millenium stadium he would have to pay the WRU a hefty chunk of the gate money , he was waiting until world boxing screamed loud enough before he fought Pavlik on PPV in the states until Hopkins beat Kelly and fakkkked that plan up :deal Joe will announce his retirement in Febuary but i have a feeling he will be back when Dawson has gained sufficient interest in his caeer in the States and becomes main stream HBO PPV fare , Then he could be possibly be tempted out of retirement providing its within a twelve month time frame , aything after that will be a non starter , Joe despite what many think is a shrewd bloke and knows he will have gone passed the point where a return would be possible if any later than late 09 imo ..

 

Sounds like some good fights.

 

You think two of the worlds biggest money grabbing promoters gave away MOST of the tickets to the biggest 168lbs fight in recent history ? me thinks your "Mail" might be winding you up Phil :good

 

That would be 1 nice card to watch should that happen.:deal

 

I would love this to be true, but the bottom line is that not even your average sports fan in Australia knows who these 4 men are. No one other than the 20 or so blokes who post on these forums would watch it. They would be better off showing a Katsidis fight against a credible opponent. At least that way they may get viewers to watch an Aussie fight. I hope i'm wrong though as i would love to see the doubleheader you mention.

 

Silly me. atsch

 

No mate, this stuff is pretty spot on, and was inside the industry stuff when I was in Manchester. Beauty of being involved in the sport is you always see behind the hype!

 

What ? Warren & Palle shelled out £ 10,000,000 in purses to Calzaghe & Kessler out of their own pockets just to hype both up ? . Calzaghe v Manferdo sold 35,000 tickets to morons paying up to 250 quid a throw , do you seriously belive Warren & Palle " Gave away most of the tickets to Calzaghe v Kessler to radio comp winners " come on Phi your an international judge surley you don't belive that bollocks ?