I Dont Blame Joe For Gloating

[Trainer Monkey]

Roy dodged him for forever,and everyone knows it. It must have felt nice to stick it his kisser.

Roy dodged him huh? Which is why it took Joe 44 fights to make his way over to the US to fight the more famous fighters like Hopkins and Jones.

Joe Calzaghe is a good fighter and I am taking nothing away from what he has accomplished but last nights win over Roy was nothing bigger than his win over a shot Chris Eubank.

Oh come now,Joe has been begging for Jones for 7 years now at least
Jones has allways publicly said,"I fight who I want,so why should I talk to him" he did the same thing to Bernard
Well now that nobody really wants to watch him anymore because he's done,suddenly he's become alot more accomodating
Alot of athletes forget, a time will come when theres nothing left to be cocky or arrogant about anymore,for Roy, the time has come today.

[El Kabong]

Fine Trainer...what did Calzaghe do to set up a fight with Roy 7 years ago? Calzaghe at that point was no different than Michalczewski or Ottke...he didn't have a lot on his record and he didn't want to fight away from England but he DID want to fight RJJ the #1 p4p fighter in the world...what do you expect Roy to say "Oh why of course Joe, I'll take a pay cut and travel to podunk Wales to fight you infront of a crowd of toothless soccer hooligans....like you even had to ask"

I love how the more famous and more successful American fighters are supposed to just jump at the opportunity to fight the best England has to offer and if they don't want to fight them IN ENGLAND then they "dodged them"

[ICB]

Gloating is an understatement i thought i was watching a circus, not a championship fight.

[Spicoli]

Gloating is an understatement i thought i was watching a circus, not a championship fight.

At one time I felt the exact same way about the man in your sig.Serious.

[Munkymagic]

Fine Trainer...what did Calzaghe do to set up a fight with Roy 7 years ago? Calzaghe at that point was no different than Michalczewski or Ottke...he didn't have a lot on his record and he didn't want to fight away from England but he DID want to fight RJJ the #1 p4p fighter in the world...what do you expect Roy to say "Oh why of course Joe, I'll take a pay cut and travel to podunk Wales to fight you infront of a crowd of toothless soccer hooligans....like you even had to ask"

I love how the more famous and more successful American fighters are supposed to just jump at the opportunity to fight the best England has to offer and if they don't want to fight them IN ENGLAND then they "dodged them"

You know that yes? Joe has said previously he would fight Jones anywhere...in the US or whatever but Roy was never interested back then. Ok so Joe didn't have Bhop/kessler etc on his record then but bottom line is Roy wasn't interested. Don't bring location into it though as that is just rubbish.

Also...stop referring to all brits as toothless soccer hooligans. It makes you sound like a fat,single minded, check shirt wearing redneck

oh wait...

[Taeth]

Roy dodged him for forever,and everyone knows it. It must have felt nice to stick it his kisser.

Roy dodged him huh? Which is why it took Joe 44 fights to make his way over to the US to fight the more famous fighters like Hopkins and Jones.

Joe Calzaghe is a good fighter and I am taking nothing away from what he has accomplished but last nights win over Roy was nothing bigger than his win over a shot Chris Eubank.

Oh come now,Joe has been begging for Jones for 7 years now at least
Jones has allways publicly said,"I fight who I want,so why should I talk to him" he did the same thing to Bernard
Well now that nobody really wants to watch him anymore because he's done,suddenly he's become alot more accomodating
Alot of athletes forget, a time will come when theres nothing left to be cocky or arrogant about anymore,for Roy, the time has come today.

From my understanding Joe Calzaghe never would accept the normal 70/30 pay difference nor would he fly over to the States because he was afraid of flying. I think Bernard was bad as well in terms of negotiations with Roy. However you know more about it than I do. I definitely could see Roy taking the easier road, I think people criticize Floyd for doing it when the fights he took IMO were harder.

[Trainer Monkey]

Roy dodged him huh? Which is why it took Joe 44 fights to make his way over to the US to fight the more famous fighters like Hopkins and Jones.

Joe Calzaghe is a good fighter and I am taking nothing away from what he has accomplished but last nights win over Roy was nothing bigger than his win over a shot Chris Eubank.

Oh come now,Joe has been begging for Jones for 7 years now at least
Jones has allways publicly said,"I fight who I want,so why should I talk to him" he did the same thing to Bernard
Well now that nobody really wants to watch him anymore because he's done,suddenly he's become alot more accomodating
Alot of athletes forget, a time will come when theres nothing left to be cocky or arrogant about anymore,for Roy, the time has come today.

From my understanding Joe Calzaghe never would accept the normal 70/30 pay difference nor would he fly over to the States because he was afraid of flying. I think Bernard was bad as well in terms of negotiations with Roy. However you know more about it than I do. I definitely could see Roy taking the easier road, I think people criticize Floyd for doing it when the fights he took IMO were harder.

Not really,just in how people treat you in the buisness,if your fighter is champ as well, you cant take 70/30. Its an unacceptable number. In Bernards case,Roy didnt even have a belt at the time, and Bernard had 3, and Roy told him he'd have to take 60/40