Sorry if this thread was made but how the HELL did Joe and Bernard sit together?

Not here.

They wouldn't be scripting an "angle" like this so long after Calzaghe retired, with Hopkins doggedly pursuing and Calzaghe rankling at it. This is real, same as the parallel situation with Vitali and Lennox. That isn't all part of a "build-up" to Lewis actually coming back. It's Vitali actually deluding himself - like Bernard is doing here - into thinking he can attract his rival out of Fat-n-Happyland.