This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected Monday, October 20 2008 _________________________________________________ :verysad Edit: My beef is not him retiring it is the statement highlighted in red so all you ******* that try and change to change the subject stop because you can't defend him "beating everyone worth beating". Edit number 2: Again for the assholes that don't know how to read and just look at the big letters and then post....... THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT A CALZAGHE VS HOPKINS REMATCH IT IS ABOUT WHAT CALZAGHE SAID THAT HE "FOUGHT EVERYONE WORTH BEATING". Hopefully you dumb ****in Calzaghe nut polishers can understand now.
yes he is now a ***** for not fighting hopkins AGAIN!!! did he not state months ago his fight with roy would be his last or are you too stupid to grasp a simple statement?how does hopkins's career affect joe in anyway now? you give the clouds substance.
Joe is getting a lil too cocky and hes bout to have that knocked off his face when he fights Jones...Joe is a good fighter but he IS NOT A GREAT FIGHTER
Joe won 7 of the last 8 rounds on two judges' cards in the fight with Hopkins. Once he figured Hopkins out, he kicked his ass. Why would he go through training camp just to do the same thing all over again? I love BHop, but he was reduced to trying to get fake low-blow rest time and points late in that fight. That's how bad the butt-kicking was down the stretch. No need for a rematch. After RJJ, it's Chad Dawson or out for JC. I hope he makes that fight, although I don't think he will.
Calslappy isn't great, he could have unified alot earlier at 168 and fought both RJJ and Bhops in thier prime, but of course he knows he would have got sparked if went down that path.
Calzaghe has beaten everyone worth beating. If we take his "real" career to be at 168, there is only one guy he didn't beat, Sven Ottke - and that's because Ottke wasn't having a bar of him and wouldn't fight him for any thing. At 168, he dominated, cleaned the division more than once and held his title belt, beating all the names that came through by the time he left. His fights at 175 have simply been adding to the legacy, first by beating Hopkins who has now proven to be still a superb, Top 5 P4P fighter. And then by beating Jones Jr, who I still feel has got some surprising.
I'm not talking about him not wanting to fight Hopkins again *******. I'm talking about how he thinks that he beat EVERYONE worth beating in his career.
No matter when a fighter decides to retire, there will be claims that he is ducking someone. Suppose Calzaghe beats Hopkins again and then decide to retire. People would say he is ducking Dawson. Basically, the people who want him to lose won't be happy unless he keeps on fighting until someone beats him.
Some daft Pavlik fan twats are taking it out on Calzaghe cos Pavlik got beat.Anyway,Hopkins should of prepared better against Calzaghe,instead of seeing him as just another "EURO"fighter.I actually think Hopkins should`ve got the nod in that fight but he would`ve had the judges giving the decision to him if he respected Calzaghe more and trained harder for it.
American Logic = Make foreign boxers perpetually fight in the hope @ some point they'll eventually lose. Last month Hopkins was old. This month Calzaghe is a coward for not rematching him. Sheer genius.
Well, what more can you ask? He tried to fight Hopkins and Jones in their prime but they refused. It's always hard to beat Hopkins comfortably... what comfortably? It's almost impossible to beat him at all at any age. He pulled it off in a close fight in his LHW debut... Now he's going after Jones. You guys all should realize that he's going to be 37 soon, and he belongs to the same era as Hopkins, Jones, DLH, Mosley, and he truly believes that that's the era and it's fighters against whom he should prove himself. There's always another guy in the next generation, but it wasn't enough that Calzaghe took apart Lacy then Kessler - people wanted Pavlik and now Dawson. One thing is for sure: Joe won't be around the ring at 43... in his era, late 90s, early 00s, it's Hopkins and Jones to beat, not guys who MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT BE LEGENDS IN THE FUTURE. HOW he put that in words is disrespectful. I like Calzaghe, but he shouldn't let his emotions take over when speaking to the public. He's bitter because when he wanted, he was refused to fight the big names and now when he beats them they are old, it means nothing and Calzaghe is a protected bum anyway. It was only 36 hours ago when Bernard Hopkins said almost with tears in his eyes: I'm tired of proving myself. So is Calzaghe.
Done enough??? Enough of what??? Why does he want to retire??? Because there isn't anymore old legends for him to fight???