I'm right there with you. But if you were in Joe's shoes - would you have wanted Jones after he just utterly embarassed everyone at 160?
True, I see where you're coming from, but there was better competition out there than what he was facing.
Calzaghe is a great talent that waited too long to take his career more serious and fight good competition. I'm not a big fan of Wlads by any means, but I think he said it best, when he said, If you want to be taken serious as a good fighter you must come to the United States, they truly have strongest competition in the world, which led to Wlad and his brothers move to California.
That's what I'm saying, people say he couldn't rise was because he lived in England. But it was his decision to stay there.
I'm right there with you on that, I still think Joe has to eat more of the blame than Frank, but people forget that fighters fight, and the business people make those fights and make the deals.
Money. And not believing that unless you go to the states to fight you ain't ****. There is life beyond America.
Doesn't Joe have the final say of who he fights? If he didn't like what Warren was doing he would have fired him. If Calzaghe had a thirst for greatness he would have forced the issue and promoted himself or hired a high quality promoter.
Lies. The world is flat, and the sun revolves directly around Wahington D.C. Anything else is bollocks!
That's just how it is. Joe still sees Warren through rose-tinted spectacles because he helped him. I don't think I'd have stayed with Warren, but whatever.