None of the Europeans would come over and Fight Roy... One time I believe it was before his fight with Bryant or another supermiddleweight when he was p4p #1 that Roy asked HBO to try and find a fight for him where it was 60-40% in his favor for most cases, and not a single guy from the UK would fight him in the States. Roy never duked anyone... its just these guys weren't willing to come over to get humiliated (like Ricky Hatton) for anything less than a 50/50 split. Benn would never fight Roy, and wouldn't have stood a chance, Eubanks would have foughten Roy for a 50/50 split ,but he didn't deserve it, Collins wouldn't truly consider fighitng Roy, And Calzaghe wasn't willing to fight Roy at 175, in the states, for 60/40 spli in Roy's favor. People will tell you that Roy priced himself out, but he hardly made unreasonable offers, and never offers that were considered totally absurd, the only person who really stood a chance against him either htan Hopkins and Calzaghe was McCellan anyways, and he was done after he fought Benn.

Even with Calzaghe and Hopkins people forget That Roy hit as hard as any middleweight, I say that he could land punches that could match Julian Jackson, he was faster than Leonard(or anyone p4p), He could pot shot like Mayweather, but put combinations together like Sugar Ray Robinson, He was very hard to hit, and he was always in great shape. I could see Calzaghe's persistence, and huge punch numbers to give Roy a little trouble, but his, Roy's, speed and power would overcome the Welshman. Hopkins definitely got better from that first encounter, but Roy was quite a bit better than him at that point and Roy also improved tenfold from his first title fight, and he had a broken hand that fight.