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I dont like Frank Warren and i think Joe should fight B hop in America,even tho b hop cant draw flies to S*** and a fight in wales would bring 60 thousand....,but I would like to c joe go to America and beat him..but b hop dont want the fight,he didnt want it a few years ago and dont want it now....

Why cant you guys ever understand how boxing works,where the money really is,and that the US isnt like Isles
Do you have any idea what one guy like say Trump,will drop on the table in a Casino in Vegas
Here,Ill explain,its alot more money then 10,000 of those punters would have paid right there
And thats one guy
Now picture 3000 of that level of high roller
On top of that,Calzaghe would have a better chance of getting a decision in say,Boston,then Hopkins.
In the states we have no WW2 to create a feeling of we're all in this together. We hate eachother in the states like Liverpool and Manchester,but with higher caliber weapons
Then why can't even Hopkins' best offer $8 million, only just beat the best purse that these poverty-stricken 60,000 provided Kessler with last month? If the money there is as good as you stay, surely he could easily front up twice that?
Why would they?
Joe said he wanted 5 million right after the Kessler fight,now 8 isnt good enough?
Not to mention the fight would be sold on Bernards name,not Joes.
A clue for you,Calzaghe/Kessler wasnt even a pay per view here,it was a freebie on HBO
Its all Frank Warren BS sorry to disapoint you
Calzaghe probably wanted £5 million instead of dollars. Latest news in the UK is that Hopkins offered a smudge over £2 million, which isn't even $5 million US. Let's face it mate, the total purse would be huge for this one, so why is Hopkins' people offering such a paltry sum which won't even beat Calzaghe's career highest purse? Your previous argument was that the money was so much better in Vegas, yet Hopkins' people can't offer decent money to Calzaghe? I'm afraid that either sounds like Hopkins BS or you having way over-exaggerated the money that is available to make the fight in Vegas.
No,he wanted 2.5 million pounds,thats 5 million US
Then Calzaghe swiftly set his sights on legend Hopkins - and a £2.5million purse. He said: “Bernard, let’s do it, let’s do it. I’ve been undefeated champion for the last 10 years, I’ve won four major belts — what else is there to do but get guys like Hopkins?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle426009.ece
At no point in that article does it directly attribute a comment demanding a £2.5 million purse to Calzaghe. Having been a journalist myself for two years, the fine line between speculation and direct quotes from someone can be blurred very easily, and if Joe had actually come out and say that he wanted a £2.5 million purse, then it would be in direct quotes.

This is just the tabloids speculating on how much the purse would be, not Joe's demands to make a fight with Hopkins. Journalists are slippery customers, and although that paragraph is shady in the extreme, I think it just about strays on the side of the line that wouldn't get them convicted if someone decided to sue for that type of sentence.