Joe Calzaghe STARTS WORDS OF WAR

From the sampling of comments on this thread, it looks like Calzaghe has begun to accomplish what he's set out to do, and that is to raise interest and excitement for the upcoming fight.

Expect Roy to fire back in similar form shortly. By the time fight night rolls around, fans of each man will be hopping mad at the audicity of the other.

Neither Roy nor Joe are particularly at home with this kind of thing.

(Joe and Mikkel tried to look aggressive at their pre-fight press conference. Each on looked stern and one of them even laid a small head-butt on the other. Then they ruined it by both bursting out laughing. They couldn't pull it off)

But if it generates more interest, then more $$$$ will flow.

Calzaghe knows that he's probably the better fighter right now.

He also knows that 10 years ago, Roy was definitely the better fighter.

But he'll make the necesary noises to sell the fight.

Wonder what Roy's gonna say ?

He can't do the white boy quip as Bernard took it already.

 

european creampuffs like who??? cos let me tell you now richie woodhall is a better boxer than Woods, as was Eubank and probably even veit and reid were........truth is, if calzaghe was as bad as you make out, it would have been easy pickings for Jones.....no?? and stop jabbering on about tarver, hopkins iced tarver and calzaghe beat hopkins whether you like it or not

 

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Nikkala Stott. Page 3 girl.

 

Isn't beating Lacy and Kessler whilst in his mid 30s good enough for you???

You cant keep asking aging fighters to step up against the young pretenders all the time mate.....

 

I never said Calzaghe wasn't a good fighter and his wins against Lacy and Kessler are commendable...but I can't stand his arrogance and the way that British fans overrate his career. Again, the best guys his beaten (HOF competition) were past there prime...and I still don't think Eubanks was as Great as British fans make him to to be,,,he could punch and take a punch but was he on the level of a hopkins or Jones jr....I think not.

 

Eubank was an excellent fighter that was the wrong side of 30, but gave Joe hell cos he was that good....and I'm not one to over rate Calzaghe's career, but I will stand up for it when it's slated by people who grossly under rate it

 

So Joe was full of **** when he called out Pavlik I guess.

 

How can people be overrating Calzaghe?

Some people do not consider him a top 50 ATG.

 

Well Pavlik was apparently offered the Calzaghe fight twice and said no twice.....make of that what you will.........but i've a feeling Pavlik didnt want to get his passport dirty

Pavlik is no Joe Calzaghe, Joe is/was and will always be a better boxer......they don't need to fight to show that....whether or not a 26 year old huge puncher can beat a faded 10 year veteran champ is another question, cos clearly he could

 

There is the rub. Cal kept saying this was the fight he wanted when clearly he didn't. I guess it played well for the fans, but REALLY pissed of the rest of the boxing world when he decided to go the RJJ route.

 

I think he did it for fun.

He probably logs on here laughing hysterically at booradley, copy and pasting the same post over and over with a video of a Calzaghe interview in it.

 

:rofl The **** you come up with. Class:deal

 

Both well past it but JC should win. I realise that bad-mouthing is all part of selling tickets but I still don't like it when great fighters are involved.

 

If Eubank was so elite why was he so deteriorated in his early 30's I wonder. I think i know why...because he wasn't that good. Calzaghe is a damn good fighter but his resume reaks of Frank Warren cherry picking and I only respect the last couple years of his career. Do you honestly think he would've beaten either Hopkins, Jones or even James toney prime 4 prime?

 

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