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this fight may never happen, infact i dont beleive it will due to so much petty talk

B-HOP has said he'll never go to wales, which is fair enough because lets face it wales ain't the 1st place on a boxing calender you look to have a big fight, Hopkins fights in Vegas which at the moment is home to boxing and a world wide famous venue to BIG FIGHTS

joe has always refused to go over the pond, he doesn't wish to travel, he keeps saying he'll go to america now to fight a big name BUT!!! theres nothing to show he wants to.......... him and warren keeping talking about getting hopkins over here..... it seem that fight won'thappen so.................. there now talking about a fight with WOODS in wales!!!! is hopkins the only name out there joe can't fight no one else from abroad? why now get a fight with woods

simple fact joe and warren want a 43year old past his best hopkins to come to wales, here not prepared to fight a young strong guy, there even to afraid to go to vegas and fight hopkins, instead they now look to a lilmited and old woods to come to wales, joe says he'll knock hopkins out but he ain't really interested in fighting the man............. they'll use this as a talking point to say " BERNARD HOPKINS THE GREAT FIGHTER WAS TO AFRAID TO FIGHT JOE " to add credit to joes name............. joe will finish his carreer in wales fighting limited past there best guys or reality tv stars etc etc etc........... its a real shame because joe had talent and could have made a name world wide but he choose to stay home in comfort zones......... sadly he'll be remembered as a good fighter who lacked the courage to go over the pond............... RICKY HATTON WENT OVER AND NOW IS A MUCH BIGGER NAME AND HAS MUCH MORE RESPECT WITH FIGHT FANS THEN JOES EVER HAD

TAKE THE FIGHT WITH HOPKINS IN AMERICA JOE AND DO THE BIZ............... DONT LET IT SLIP BY AGAIN
Dude....do you even read our front news page Rob Lewis aka Preme did an interview with Calzaghe straight after these rumours of Hopkins making an $8 million offer, and neither Calzaghe nor Warren had heard anything about it.

Hopkins making up bogus claims about offers that never materialised....how exactly is that Joe's fault. If that offer was legit, Joe would be on it like flies on S***. And on one hand you're saying Hopkins is past it....and then you're saying he should take the fight.

The reason the Woods fight is being mentioned is dual...Hopkins don't want a fight before next summer, and Joe would rather have one sooner. And there's the small matter of the IBF light-heavy belt.

As for Wales as a venue....do the math. 60,000 tickets = more cash than 16,000 tickets. Everyone makes more money. And from what I've seen, with the exception of Hatton bouts, Vegas' atmosphere doesn't come close to the Millennium Stadium.

The basic fact is, if Golden Boy fronts up with their $8 million offer, Joe'll take it, heck, any fighter would.
Just cos Joe and FW say something in an interview dont mean its true. Sure one side is lying but why does it have to be Hopkins and Goldenboy? Frank Warren is arguably the most dishonest manager out there at the moment. Rob Lewis is a good writer dpnt get me wrong but he may also be the biggest Calzaghe fans who ever hugged nuts. Of course he is gonna write the story to make Joe look good and Hopkins bad. He is not exactly neutral.
Maybe Joe is right and Hopkins is the liar, but it'd be naive to base your whole argument on one interview written by a noted Calzaghe fan.
i didn't write S*** to make anyone look good or bad, i used my contact to get the other side of the "story"

now i never made hopkins or calzaghe to be anything in that and NO ONE is calling hopkins a liar, in fact the question of how valid that is lies on the person it came from... what is questioned in that is, if it is from hopkins, and if it is valid why wasn't it formal press realese? every major peper in the UK, some bigger boxing one sin the us, teletext etc etc etc would of printed that stroy...

I can not say 100% that its bullshit, but one can question something that is a very very big talking point in an already hot subject making an almost unnoticed appearance.

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FYI everything apar from the quotes in that article was written by daxx kahn... i got caught on a very busy friday where i had somewhere to be and i was late. so i done that real quick with Joe and just simply passed on the quotes to daxx.

So u deny being biased to Calzaghe at all when u write a story about him? Anytime any criticism is aimed towards Joe on this Forum justified or not u jump straight on the person who wrote it saying its all lies or just plain wrong. In fact i have read dozens of your posts over the last few years and cannot remember once when u have said anything negative of Joe. Yet u have criticised his opponents or possible opponents on numerous occasions. Anytime a fight cannot be made it is not Joe's fault.
Warren is notorious for putting all the blame on the opposition side when a deal cant be made between his fighter and another, yet history suggests he is the one that is tricky to deal with because his high profile fighters always tend to have trouble making the big fights.
He has been Joes manager for over 10 years and yet he has got him 2 high profile fights in this time tho Joe has been champion. Hatton only got one high profile fight while with Joe. Enzo Mac is struggling for fights.... Need i say more?
An interview with Joe or Frank cannot be taken as fact at anytime.