Now Hatton tells JC to retire

Hatton urges Calzaghe to retire




Ricky Hatton has joined the calls for Joe Calzaghe to retire after the Welshman's comprehensive victory over Roy Jones Jr at Madison Square Garden.
Calzaghe extended his unbeaten record to 46 fights by beating the American.
"There's nothing more Joe can do," Hatton told Radio 5 Live. "There's always a new contender coming through.
"But he's beaten Bernard Hopkins, he's beaten Roy Jones, he's done Madison Square Garden and Las Vegas. You can't get a better way to bow out."
Calzaghe, 36, hinted he was ready to quit following his points win in the early hours of Sunday morning but said he would discuss his future with his family before making a final decision.
Former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has already urged him to call it a day.
He told 5 Live's Sportsweek: "He's beaten everybody there is to beat and doesn't have anything else to prove, so I think he should retire."

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British heavyweight David Haye agreed with Lewis, adding: "Very rarely do you get a fighter with his record retiring at the top.
"I think Lennox Lewis showed you can walk away from the game and stay away from it and get out on top.
"It depends on how much money he's got. If he's got enough money to comfortably have the lifestyle he wants then he would retire and if he hasn't then he'll only be fighting for the money, which a lot of boxers do later on in their career.
"Fingers crossed he's tucked a bit away and he can have a nice lifestyle with his family."
However, Calzaghe's former manager Frank Warren believed the Newbridge fighter would postpone plans to hang up his gloves. "Before the fight he was saying it was his last fight and now he's saying he's not sure," said Warren, whose 12-year association with Calzaghe ended after the southpaw's victory over Hopkins in April.



"I believe he'll fight on. I would like to see him retire. He's got nothing else to prove and he's without doubt the greatest super-middleweight of all time.
"For me, he's the best British boxer since the war. His record speaks for itself. "They say that fighters are the last people to know when it's time to give up, but I think they're the last ones to admit it, and that's what he needs to do." Hopkins, who Calzaghe defeated in Las Vegas, and Mikkel Kessler, whom he beat in 2007, are among a small list of potential opponents for Calzaghe if he chooses to continue.



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Anyone want to suggest to Hatton that he should retire. Afterall he beat Kostya but got schooled by PBF and there is no one else at his weight that stands out.

Also unlike Hatton, JC will never be a stand up comedian so he might as well have another fight and make himself more money to retire on.