Quote Originally Posted by superheavyrhun
Whoa whoa whoa there dasamm, I think you'll find, if you look back at all your tapes, that it was RJJ that wasn't interested in the Calzaghe fight. For him, Calzaghe wasn't a name in the US, and it made no sense to him to risk that unified title of his against an up-and-comer from Britain who had looked really good but hadn't beaten any real american fighters prior to then.
Also, Calzaghe wouldn't have sacrfiiced his WBO SMW belt to move up to light-heavy, unless it was for a fight against RJJ, and he wasn't interested, so that's why it wasn't made.

Well, that's why I was asking. And then decided to speculate myself True, those are good points..I guess it's one of those things in retrospect seems like it would have been good for both fighters. If JC beat RJJ before 2004 when RJJ hit his rough patch it would have added a lot of legitimacy to JC's legacy and it would be hard for us haters to take anything away from him. And...well if RJJ took it he may have decided he liked SMW and would have never fought Johnson or Tarver again. Easy to look back and say "shoulda woulda" but too bad for both imo it didn't happen. Calzaghe would have also still had over 30 wins at the time and though not against big names it seems like it could have been enough for RJJ to keep an open mind.