How is demanding 60/40 hiding behind money? Or demanding 70/30 From Calzaghe? Thats what Mayweather the p4p #1 took to fight Oscar De La Hoya, why wouldn't they? Roy from 1998-2002 was far more accomplished then either Hopkins or Calzaghe, they hid as much from fighting Roy as vice virsa, Bernard expected Roy to change weight divisions, as did Joe Calzaghe because they both wanted catch weights which is fine in and of itself, but Roy wanted to go up to heavyweight, and by that point he was around 30, Calzaghe definitely wouldn't drop down to face Bernard, Bernard wouldn't drop down at all to face Winky, or even face Winky at 160.

I think the fact of the matter none of them truly wanted to face eachother at the other person's advantage, they all knew how good the others were, and they knew they had easier fights against other guys, but if Joe wanted Roy so bad why didn't he move up to the LHW division to force Roy to fight him? If Bernard wanted Roy so bad why didn't he go up to LHW in 2000 as opposed to waiting until after he lost at MW. ONCE again Mayweather went up to 154 to fight Oscar De La Hoya. Oscar was the best fighter he could fight the most money, etc, etc. He chased taht fight and said fuck everything else(despite winning the legitimate WW belt at the time before doing so). Roy would have made Hopkins and Calzaghe HUGE money back then, he was p4p #1, he was the won who moved up from their weightclasses to dominated at 175. ITS THEIR JOB TO fight the more popular fighter on his terms. Thats how boxing works. Do you think Billy Conn tried for a catch weight against Joe Louis? Did Leonard demand a catch weight against Hagler? IMO it was way easier for Joe Calzaghe and especially Bernard Hopkins to move up to the LHW division that it was for Roy to move back down, Roy was way too big to get back down to 168 let alone 164. Hell even when he fought Trinidad at 170, he looked WAY smaller then he did back when he ruled the LHW division.