i've always been pretty anti-calzaghe... i guess on this board you could even have said i was one of those american haters but last night he proved to me again that he was a great fighter (the other time was the lacy fight but so much time has passed between then and now that i must've forgot) i went to a casino to watch the fight with several hundred fans and the ratio of roy to joe fans was like 98 to 2... and the first couple of rounds everyone was in a celebratory mood but then as the fight progressed, it became silent as a tomb... and eventually people started leaving... i left after ten rounds because i couldn't bear to watch this shell of a roy get destroyed by joe... i think that's how everyone felt, that a little piece of themselves died in that ring with roy last night, a piece that represented all those memories and lost youth having said that, roy showed glimmers of his old self at the very beginning, and it showed me he still had some gas left in the tank... it was obvious roy trained really hard for this fight and he could've beaten a lot of other fighters in that ring last night... but not joe as for the prime vs prime issue... i was one of those people who thought roy would just annihilate joe in that situation, but now i'm thinking roy would win, but the fight would be very competitive and close... and the reason is not because i think any less of roy, but i think more of joe
I feel a bit sorry for Roy because of that. He stuck it out and pushed himself to the last round..but it seems a lot of his fans didn't show the same heart. I heard the same thing happened even in the Garden. I guess it's more to do with being saddened by the Roys state than being fair weather fans but still i think the guy deserved better...
