Why Did Jones, Hopkins, And Toney Duck Eubank, Benn And Calzaghe All Those Years?

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  1. SHOWSHOOTER

    SHOWSHOOTER Active Member Full Member

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    I find it interesting that american fans seem to hold jones, hopkins, and toney in such high regard by knocking over american bums for a decade when the biggest challenges out there for these over hyped fighters were chris eubank, nigel benn, and joe calzaghe.

    why did the likes of hopkins, jones and toney never call out these british fighters or seek the chance to go over to britain and prove themselves to the boxing world?

    is it because they knew they would get there arses kicked back to the other side of the atlantic and so decided to continue brain washing the american public by knocking out over hyped american bums?
     
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  2. DINAMITA

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    This has to be a joke, it absolutely has to be. There's no way anyone, even on this forum, is seriously this much of a ****ing idiot.
     
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  3. Southpaw Brit

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    I don't see many of your incredible Yank buddies beating Calzaghe. Benn in particular was also avoided by a lot of top Americans. One of them in Gerald McClellan found out exactly why.
     
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  4. SHOWSHOOTER

    SHOWSHOOTER Active Member Full Member

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    is this another brain washed american i see before me? :nut
     
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  5. Scar

    Scar VIP Member Full Member

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    Yeah, now they all ducked HIM. :rofl :rofl

    Did you just notice that TWO just fought him when they're past their primes?
     
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  6. Anglosaxon

    Anglosaxon FASTEST HANDS ON ESB Full Member

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    ultimate respect goes to the G Man for fighting Benn, and I think that showed Hopkins, Toney and Jones in particular why it was best making a name off fighting American cans.
     
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  7. realsoulja

    realsoulja Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    A B-Hop who was in his prime ducked Calzaghe, but when he reached the age of 43 and didnt need to fight calzaghe, he suddenly fights him????

    u must be on crack
     
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  8. mattress

    mattress Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Are you really a jock? You seem to hate anyone British! Been watching Braveheart again?
     
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  9. mattress

    mattress Boxing Addict Full Member

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    BH definitely ducked JC, that is well documented.
     
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  10. Sandmanl337

    Sandmanl337 Pactard Full Member

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    When RJJ was in his prime, who was Calzaghe really?

    Now the situation is turned.. Will Calzaghe fight the American Dawson now?
     
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  11. daredevil1989

    daredevil1989 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    its one thing hiding cowering in a corner calling guys out expecting them to come to you its another actually showing some impetus and going and making and forcing these fights to happen...unfortunately calzaghe cowered and did nothing of note until so late in his career
    tell me calzaghe's first big win/super fight (if you wanna call it that) came in 2006 against lacy so what would be the attraction of going to wales in 2001 to possibly get robbed or just beat another guy everyone would say was just another protected bum who feasted on inferior opposition? the answer is there's no attraction because calzaghe didnt go out of his way to make himself a big player
    stop with this crap
     
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  12. SHOWSHOOTER

    SHOWSHOOTER Active Member Full Member

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    you were all living in your brain washed little world, i'm suprised any of you had actually heard of benn, eubank, and calzaghe at this time because they were not born in america.

    the likes of benn, eubank and calzaghe were the biggest challenges out there for your guys so why did no one come knocking on there door to fight these british fighters?

    why didn't jones, toney, hopkins come over to britain to fight the best and prove themselves?
     
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  13. daredevil1989

    daredevil1989 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    dont insult me im from the UK i can just see through media hype i actually felt like spewing bile last night the amount of build up they had and how they actually tried to pass it over as a legit contest. That sort of media hyperbole may work on you but not me and it never has for calzaghe or eubank or benn for that matter
     
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  14. danjordan23

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    Because they know deep down they would have lost, plain and simple.
     
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  15. SHOWSHOOTER

    SHOWSHOOTER Active Member Full Member

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    can anyone name any fighters who were a bigger challenge to toney, hopkins, jones than what eubank, benn, and calzaghe were?
     
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