I love Joe Calzaghe!

[Fenster]

What do you not understand about the term "Nobody else was available"? Hell Arum tried to make a fight with a shitload of guys, he had at least 6 or 8 of them on the go, but they all over priced themselves.

Kessler was not available, Abraham was not available, Joe was not available. The only one that could have been available was Joe as the Jones fight is an option fight. Kessler and Abraham both have mandatory fights to get through.

Unbelievable!!!

So fighters are unavailable and pricing themselves out against Pavlik.. YET these things NEVER could have possibly happend in Calzaghe's career, right?

He prefers the easy route?

Come on, man.

Well he certainly seems to now. I know I would rather fight Jones over Pavlik in a safety sense. Before you say money, well Pavlik would have garnered him at least as much as Jones would have. Joe is knocking Pavlik now because even the media are questioning his decision in fighting Jones over Pavlik.

If you find evidence where Joe seriously made an attempt to fight the top dogs 5-10 years ago when he early in his reign, I will take back my comment.

He was comfy cozy living the Warren dream of sitting back and fighting fringe guys that Warren spoon fed him over and over again.

This really can't be happening AGAIN

Hopkins pricing himself out -

"A teleconference was set up in my office in New York for July 30th, 2002, and on the call was myself, Don King who was in the room, Frank Warren and Bernard Hopkins' lawyer, Arnold Joseph. Along with Arnold was a woman named Linda Carter, who was there on behalf of Bernard. We asked Arnold if Bernard wanted to fight Joe Calzaghe and we asked him how much money would he want if he did. The response we got was $3million and the fight would have to take place in the United States. After a little scratching of the head, we said 'Okay, done.' Frank Warren agreed on the spot, Don King agreed and we agreed so as far as we were concerned all parties were singing off the one hymm sheet. Arnold excused himself with Linda and I can only assume it was to call Bernard. Either that day or the next day, they came with a new demand: $6million, double the sum that had been agreed, the deal blew up.....he had then and still has no desire to fight Joe Calzaghe, that much is pretty clear." - Jay Larkin, then Showtime TV Network's Senior Vice-President of Sports and Event Programming.