Quote Originally Posted by Preme

man these sort of posts are frustrating... you post question his opposition up untill now, yet you can't name anyone with good reason who he hasn't fought (also he went to denmark to fight on the tyson undercard to try and build his profile in the states..) Hopkins price him self out for a fight in the us, Ottke made it clear he wasn't going to fight calzaghe even in germany up untill now i have yet to see anyone on this board who have been able to show some source that calzaghe has been awkward and tried to avoide big fights, i say now coz there are quotes and sources coming from the kessler talk.
I dont like this arguement because there is no hard answer to anything about it. Fights were made then cancelled for one reason or another. I dont know why these fights were not rescheduled or attempted to be made again. But the only think I can think of would be that Joe didnt want to leave the SMW division. If he would have gone up there would have been more possibilities for big name fights, but since he didnt we can only speculate. I am starting to think that maybe Joe never tried to avoid big fights, but never attempted to get one except for the ones that fell through for whatever reasons. I believe that RJJ and Bhop were the only fights that he seriously was after. To be honest there is not a good answer to this question, as much as we would like to bash him for his competition there wasnt any at SMW. I think there is now in Kessler, but for whatever reason the fight wont be made. I think that a potential unification bout with Kessler would do more for Joe if he won than a win offer Bhop or RJJ at this point in their careers.