the truth is if people are debateing calzaghes record he only has himself to blame and no one else.............. ricky hatton made more money from one fight then joe had made in his whole carreer which says it all............ joe alwys took the easier fights........... the fight with hopkins was said to be made years earlier but failded........ they blames hopkins.......... the fight with roy jones was said to be made years earlier but failed.........they blamed roy jones.........pavlik was said to be offered the fight but it failed............they blamed pavlik.............the fight with sven ottka never happened they blamed ottka...........he twice palled out the fight with glen johnson siteing injury when johnson said he wants money upfront to set a 3rd date for the fight joe pulled out alltogether WHY did he know he'd get injured again before hand............but again they blamed johnson............ the fights with reid and woodhall happened only after they had both been knocked out or beaten by and old man and where somewhat passed there primes............. you look and you'll see that 95% of his fights have been where theres an angle that has tiped things largely in calzages favour.............also lets not forget he held the wbo belt for 11 years a belt which even now at its higest ever holding is the number 4 belt before it was nothing more then a belt to hold your jeans up with

i used to be a fan of joes but there came a point where i had enough of his bull.......... lets face it he was only seen as a world champion in britan, no one knew who he was anywhere else..................sven ottka was a decent fighter nothing more but he was known as WORLD CHAMPION because he held the wba and ibf belts...... robin reid, charles brewer, glen johnson, bryon michell all had the balls the go fight him but joe refused to giveing us his famous.HE'S NOT IN MY LEAGUE, THERES NO INTEREST IN FIGHTING HIM so insted he fights guys whos name we cant even remember.......... a chance to win the wba, ibf belts and he says no thanks i'll fight this other guy.... for less money whi no one knows

he's a coward alwys was always will be............ even now he only takes fights with men he sees as past there best