Thread: Calzaghe vs jones knockdown

I post these threads because it was a curious situation.
When Roy knocked Joe down he didn't go for the ko, why is this? I mean if you watch Roy when joes up it looks like he's thinking of 2 things

Calzaghe has excellent recuperative powers, Roy was anxious about gasing.
Roy was an old fighter.

Originally Posted by Trueno

Calzaghe has excellent recuperative powers, Roy was anxious about gasing.
Roy was an old fighter.

Spot on

Ok so what was stopping from doing a Roy jones special warp speed combo and doing Joe there and then and walking off and saying hey bhop u lost and I didn't?

Originally Posted by Dropanuke

Ok so what was stopping from doing a Roy jones special warp speed combo and doing Joe there and then and walking off and saying hey bhop u lost and I didn't?

If he could have he would have but Calzaghe was a different animal to anyone he had faced before and he would have always had trouble with him.

Originally Posted by Dropanuke

Ok so what was stopping from doing a Roy jones special warp speed combo and doing Joe there and then and walking off and saying hey bhop u lost and I didn't?

Roy was verging on 40 years of age.

Originally Posted by Trueno

Originally Posted by Dropanuke

Ok so what was stopping from doing a Roy jones special warp speed combo and doing Joe there and then and walking off and saying hey bhop u lost and I didn't?

Roy was verging on 40 years of age.

Yep, Roy was a whole 3 years older than Joe

Perhaps Roy should have tried emulating what bhop did because bhops plan was spot on, if it wasn't for bhop being older he may have won it, agree??
I watched jones calzaghe live and was biting my nails and I really thought that if anyone can beat Joe it's got to b Roy but didn't work out! Alot of people slate him and they shouldn't, he beat the necessary people to claim the belts

Originally Posted by ross

Originally Posted by Trueno

Originally Posted by Dropanuke

Ok so what was stopping from doing a Roy jones special warp speed combo and doing Joe there and then and walking off and saying hey bhop u lost and I didn't?

Roy was verging on 40 years of age.

Yep, Roy was a whole 3 years older than Joe

Different fighters though. Roy was at his peak early,
Joe later.

Abit like the Tyson vs Lewis fight then

Knowing you can mentally/physically pull it all together and win and hoping you can still pull it all together and win, is a similarity between Roy and Tyson at hat stage.They tried to talk it up and convince themselves as well as us.

Some people age faster than others and like comets some burn brighter earlier and then burn out a lot quicker.

It's a shame though. Same thing happened to been and eubank and guys like Gerald McClellan didn't even get into their careers really.

Ive always thought that actually...Jones should have jumped him. Think he was much more shaken then when Hopkins speared him. Jones had done this before, let some off at times but here I think it was more physical them mental.

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Ive always thought that actually...Jones should have jumped him. Think he was much more shaken then when Hopkins speared him. Jones had done this before, let some off at times but here I think it was more physical them mental.

Physical I sometimes think jones got to chummy with Joe whilst co promoting the fight

I gotta give Calzaghe his props... In the eventual run of things, it became evident that Enzo Calzaghe isn't at all great as a trainer in many ways. So I have to kinda conclude that Joe was a special talent in his own right.... I think the guy could of seriously benefited from a guy like Freddie Road... I mean, he would of been an absolute sensation with a world class trainer.

Okay so maybe if not just Roach then maybe some xylocaine too