Chris Eubank says fighting prime Roy Jones or James Toney would have been suicide

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Credit to Eubank. He acknowledged that the 168 guys from across the pond were in their own little island and that's why it was never necessary to cross the pond and likewise for Jones and Toney. Good deal Eubank. Revising history is great, but Calzaghe wasn't relevant here til after Hatton was. There was no demand, Dariusz Michalczewski was in more demand than Joe Calzaghe or anyone else around the weight class. Dariusz got beat by Julio Gonzalez and when Roy destroyed Gonzalez, it was written off. Not fair to criticize any of these guys for not beating an American. If Jeff Lacy had never come along, no one here would have ever given a fuck about Calzaghe but he still would have been a millionaire. That era of super middleweights existed on their own island, and that is not anybody's fault. It was simply the way to make money. Fighters don't fight really to prove who's best, it's to make the most money. So does everyone else posting here.