Quote Originally Posted by bigragu
Quote Originally Posted by cityboy
Please tell me, why did B-Hop and RJJ never met the best Europeans?

Why fighting Morrade Hakkar, Howard Eastman and Scott Dann, when you are able to fight Collins, Calzaghe, Eubank, Watson, Eubank, Ottke and a lot of other good Europeans boxers. Why did they never fight them?

I doubt that RJJ and B-Hop could win over the Europeans - just watch how hyped Lacy was.
for starters you have eubank on there twice......second who is watson and ottke? I'll kinda give you collins...but Roy was at Lt Heavy when collins was making a name for himself....Eubank went up to cruiser while Rjj was at Lt hw hmmmm..wonder why? Benn, eubank, collins were getting into their twilites and I'm thinking maybe they didn't want to have any part of the RJJ express beat down at that time.....B_HOP always said he would fight the best....I'm sure if they would have stepped up and said I can beat you B-HOP would have beat them as well...might be why they never pushed the issue...I don't think it happened because RJJ or B-HOP were ducking the europeans as much as the europeans were ducking them....
is late now so ill look into it for an official quote when i get up, but as far as i remember eubank said he didn't want to fight RJJ, don't think he felt he could beat him.

B-hop was meant to fight calzaghe but there were problems with hop's promoters and they called it off *cough* duck *cough*

As for calzaghe v Rjj, some say rjj wudn't come to fight him in the uk, some say calzaghe wudnt go to the us to fight him only real fact anyone can be sure about it wuda been one hell of a fight and a great shame to boxing it never went ahead