Calzaghe's embarrassing ducking of Glen Johnson - a look back

Arcane being a joke who critisizes wpr;d class boxers courage despite probably never boxing himself.

 

Oh the general forum and its wearisome ducking clichés.

 

"to truly cement your legacy, you know we must fight"

i love johnson and all, but this is one of the most stupidest things a boxer has ever uttered.

and it wasn't a fight that the fans were waiting to see either... it was a good fight, but nothing more.

joe talked about retiring straight after the jones fight, so johnson calling him out at this time was stupid. joe didn't need him in the slightest. he would have won wide on the cards, and it wouldn't have done much for his legacy.

but it's all in the past so it doesn't even matter any more.

 

Calzaghe said in October 2007 that he was thinking about retiring in a year or so. He then fought and beat Kessler and Hopkins and topped it off by beating Jones on the 8th of October 2008 and having accomplished everything he wanted to accomplish in the sport he spent the rest of that year inactive and weighting up whether to continue boxing. He eventually decided he didn't want to be an active fighter anymore and walked away in February 2009.

There were fights out there he could take but Calzaghe had no ambition to make them after he got his big name fights with Hopkins and Jones so the only incentive to take them would be money but Calzaghe had also stated that he didn't want to end up fighting into his 40's long after his prime so wanted to go out while he was still on top. In the end Johnson simply wasn't a significant enough name nor a big enough payday to make Calzaghe reconsider his plans to retire.

That's not a duck.

If Johnson had done anything in the last three years to that point to deserve a shot at Calzaghe you might be able to make the case for a duck but he hadn't. The only noteworthy fighter he'd beaten since 2005 was Montell Griffin, he'd lost to Tarver, Woods and Dawson and only beaten nobodies in George Khalid Jones, Richard Hall, Fred Moore, Hugo Pineda and Aaron Norwood. It could have been a good fight, and he'd have been a decent name for Calzaghe to have on his resume, but that's it.

 

Bailey in 1..2..3..

 

Well, this ought to stir the Calzombie horde. :yep

 

Incredible exposure of a shameful duck, thank you Sir Arcane. Calslappy knew his slaps wouldn't have any effect on the road warrior, he decided to avoid.

 

he was just trying to be like floyd.

 

"knocked out a prime Roy Jones, and beat Antonio Tarver"

Come on Glen, you are complaining about the Dawson fight, we all know you didn't knock out a prime Roy or beat Tarver...

Calzaghe would have got little credit for beating Glen at that time, this seems almost out of character for Glen.

 

He really should of fought him before he retired.. It will now stand as a bad mark against him.

 

Looking back now, Glen Johnson would've looked great on Calzaghe's thin resume. Joe should've fought him.

 

Johnson style is all wrong for him, it's hard to slap when you are getting smothered, which is whi he struggled against Hopkins, with Johnson's work rate he would of made it a hard to judge ugly match