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ive seen most of frochs fights and ill tell you he is a class act id like to see him fight kessler in the next 12 months because thats a fight froch will win, anybody who's seen kessler fight could see he's clearly b-level but he can punch. joe calzaghe is on a diffrent level to all these guy's any fighter listed at 160-168-175, the u.s public like to hate on joe because he aint fought over there why?? he's fought and beat most top u.s fighters who realy if there good enough should be winning no matter where the fight is whether its in the uk the u.s or on pluto. i know for a fact that calzaghe offered to fight a primed roy jones stateside at 175 but roy didn't want to know and after hopkins won the middleweight tourny in 2001 he was offered a carrer high purse at that time of $4m to fight calzaghe in england but it was refused also. joe will fight twice more after manfreido jnr and personaly id like it to be stateside against taylor and hopkins 2 fights he wont have a problem winning.
Your right that Calzaghe did offer Jones a fight. But the reason it was turned down was because Calzaghe was actually stupid enough to ask for the bigger purse. Jones was the number 1 P4P fighter at that time. And Calzaghe actually taught he deserved more than him.
where did you get this info from because ill tell you its a long way off the mark. steve collins tried to get a fight with jones too for a couple of years and when calzaghe offered hop the fight hop was to get $4m and joe just $2m.