Calzaghe.......................is a ego maniac

Preach on, brother.

 

Calzaghe beat him fair and square.

His display was amazing and he deserved to win.

Why are you so bitter?

 

He's not disputing that Calzaghe won the fight. I think he's just surprised how well Jones did in the first couple of rounds.

 

Jones would probably have won in his prime, but I don't like it when people use the excuse that Joe didn't look great in the first couple of rounds as hard evidence that thats the way the fight would have gone in the past - Joe has always been the kind of fighter to adapt during the course of a fight, whether it takes half a round against Lacy or 5 or 6 against Kessler of Hopkin, the later part of the fight rarely goes the same way as the earlier part. For all his flaws Joe is pretty good at adapting.

 

How well DID he do, mike?

 

Scored a knockdown and landed some nice clean shots that's all. I'm not trying to turn it into a win for Jones but not many people thought a 40 year old Jones would do that in the first couple of rounds.

 

I expected he'd do better...to be honest, mike...I think he should have done better...

 

Have you seen his last six fights? What the hell did you expect?

 

I expected him to be what he said he was: in better shape than in his previous fights since his come-down from HW. I expected he have worked himself back into some form. He still had power and speed, but little beside in terms of tactics, ring intelligence and craft, etc.

I expected he would do what he said he'd do: come to win and give it his all. He did neither, and even shot to bits he could have done that.

He said Calzaghe would have to kill him to beat him. Laughable! He didn't fight like a Champion, shot or otherwise, mike...

 

Well, you'd have a case for saying he tried to humiliate Jones. He did! But he also gave Jones the best possible chance to show what he was made of. Jones didn't take it. He humiliated himself in not taking it too, I'd say.

 

I heard all that stuff too but didn't believe a word of it. I'm sure he was saying the same things before the third Tarver fight. But you're right, if he said he was willing to die in the ring he could have at least gone for broke once he realised he needed a knockout.

 

A 39 year old Jones knocked down a 36 year old Calzaghe with a forearm...and?

Roy wasnt prime but neither was Joe.