Quote Originally Posted by wacko3205
Quote Originally Posted by dumdane
I'm just wondering if you automaticly dismisses any failed negotiation as a case of "the other guy outpricing himself" or if you have an actual source.
I'm just wondering if you understand negotiating or boxing period.

If you are a champion & you want to unify & someone offers you more money than you have made on any one fight...WTF would you do?

If you were a champion...you'd take the money & fight for you chance to get the belts that Calzaghe holds...as for actual sources...they say that the internet controls all & print is dead...so here's a few links for you, dumdane.

Here's one source for you:
http://www.thedoghouse.co.uk/Article...22ba8a3a779%7D
Sauerland admitted that he had made contact with Calzaghe's promoter, Frank Warren, and he is hopeful of coming to a deal.

"We are very interested in this fight and are happy that England is interested as well," Sauerland said.

"Their current offer is not acceptable as it is not good enough financially and the date coincides with the football World Cup but we are in talks and would love to stage this attractive bout in either September or October."

Here's another:
http://forums.doghouseboxing.com/ind...ded&show=&st=&
JOE FOE IS FIGHT SHY
By Lee Reynolds
JOE CALZAGHE'S hopes of winning a third world super-middleweight title were dashed yesterday when Markus Beyer, Germany's W B C champion, priced himself out of the fight.

Promoter Frank Warren had made Beyer an offer to fight WBO and IBF king Calzaghe at Cardiff's Millenium Stadium on Saturday, July 8.

But he revealed: "They wanted two million dollars (£1,150,000) plus the German TV rights and that's totally unrealistic.

"It's as good as saying that Beyer doesn't want to fight Joe - so why don't they just admit it?"

Mikkel Kessler, Denmark's unbeaten WBA champion, also appears to be fighting shy of Calzaghe after watching the Welshman's crushing points defeat of America's Jeff Lacy in Manchester 11 days a go.

These reports were before Markus's wittle cuts. Hope that helps.
FFS this is an article from back in march?

Beyer was refering to recent negotiations, not something that happened 6 months ago. Everything had been agreed on EXCEPT the date. But now it seems the timeframe Beyer was able to work with would/should have suited Calzaghe just fine. Yet for some reason he chose to cut off negotiations with Beyer.

And as for the links you offer - well it's all nice and dandy that Joe C comes out and tells us that Beyer outpriced himself. Maybe 2 mill is too much, maybe it isn't (i'm pretty sure it wouldn't be enough for Calzaghe himself). What it doesn't say is how much Calzaghe was prepared to offer - usually it would be next to nothing.

In any case it's irrelevant since in the latest negotiations they HAD agreed on money. Time was the only problem - which it now appears wouldn't have been a problem anyway.