Joe Calzaghe's world famous WBO ducktionary - a career of ducking examined

Prime Kessler is a tougher fight than Glen Johnson.

Also Jeff Lacey appeared on paper to be a tougher fight than glen johnson.

So i don't see why he'd duck johnson and fight these too.

Also bare in mind Calzaghe style is all wrong for Johnson. A fighter that throws 100+ punches to a fighter with a shell defence. Not to mention calzaghe solid whiskers. I don't see how Johnson wins this.

Be a fun fight though

 

Both , plus his chin. Glen wouldn't flinch at them pitter patter shots and would walk Joe down till he had him out for the 10 count.

 

It may of been seeing Johnson in life and death struggles with Clinton Woods that had Calzaghe shitting him sen.

 

When there were first talks about Calzaghe fighting Johnson, Johnson went on a ridiculous losing streak that destroyed any viability of the fight happening - losing to Ottke, Vanderpool, Branco and Sheika.

When they were supposed to fight the second time Calzaghe got injured in training and got distracted by his divorce. He asked Johnson to rearrange the fight for the next year but Johnson publically stated that he wanted nothing more to do with Calzaghe and instead went to fight Roy Jones Jr.

The third time they were supposed to fight all Johnson had to do was get past Clinton Woods. Calzaghe was backing him to do it and the fight was pretty much sealed, but Johnson failed. He lost to Woods in their third fight and the potential fight against Calzaghe fell through.

The fourth time a fight was discussed was in 2008 when Calzaghe was looking to retire. Calzaghe had just beaten Jones, and Johnson and Tarver both called him out, but neither man was able to bring enough to the table to convince Calzaghe not to retire.

In two of the four cases the fight didn't happen because Johnson slipped up in ring, in one of the cases it didn't happen because Calzaghe got injured and had personal problems while Johnson wanted Jones instead, and in the final case it didn't happen because Calzaghe was retiring and Johnson couldn't offer enough incentive to change his mind.

None of that can be claimed as a duck.

As for Clinton Woods' offering £1million for a fight in 2006, that would be after Hobson - Woods' promoter - had taken Hatton from W arren - Calzaghe's promoter - and they failed to put asside their differances to get make the fight happen. Hobson and W arren were sniping at each other through the press constantly at that time, and I'm not sure they ever discussed terms seriously.

 

Delete.

Can't post article from the Scene. It was basically Frank Warran claiming Joe would always make excuses to pull out of fights, and it eventually came to a point where Frank had to pay opponents money up-front just incase Joe wouldn't turn up. Showtime called him 'No Show Joe'. Apparently, he wanted to cancel the Lacy fight, too. Frank and Joe's dad, Enzo, had to convince him to go ahead with it.

 

So, does the opinion of a bitter W arren who held a grudge against Calzaghe for deserting him carry much weight? Considering the fact that, the last time I check, W arren was considered an untrustworthy scumbag I'm not sure how much how much faith I'd put in his words.

 

Not at all. But, considering I'm a Zaggy hater, I choose to ignore that.

 

After the Hopkins loss, Johnson's phenominal record at 168 of 4 victories and 6 defeats had everyone on the run at super-middleweight.


wins - owoh, zimmerman, renteria, troy watson,

losses - sosa, kiwanuka, ottke, vanderpool, sheika, branco



You can't blame Calzaghe for ducking this monster, it was a relief for everybody at the weight when Johnson moved up to face the lesser competition at 175.

 

bailey, i was waiting for you to bite

 

Wish I banged Katie K man.

 

The first attempt to make the fight was back in 04 when Calzaghe was set to fight Johnson for his lhw ibf belt but then pulled out twice claiming to have back pain

The last attempt was in 06 when Calzaghe's offer to Menfredo was rejected, so HBO said they would accept Johnson. About a week before the fight Calzaghe pulled out again claiming to have a bad hand

I think the Johnson-Dawson I fight showed that stylewise Johnson was all wrong for him. Calzaghe would of ended up getting in heavy exchanges with a naturally bigger opponent who had the power to hurt him.

 

Dennis Hobson said during the not your average joe documentary that he was willing to work with ******. He had made an offer to Calzaghe earlier that year for the fight. It was ****** and Calzaghe who were not interested. They obviously thought Sakio Bika was a better opponent:huh