
Originally Posted by
ono
Imo it was nowhere near as disgraceful as Jones - Trinidad. A fight designed to make Roy Jones good enough to get in the ring with Calzaghe.
Calzaghe - Jones 8 or so years ago would have been fantastically competitive.
Just accept that the excitement generated by last nights fight was purely 'has Jones got one last big performance in him'
The answer was no. Simple as.
They'll both go down as 2 of the best super-middleweights of all time. It's a shame their careers have come to an end. I'm more disappointed about that to be honest.
Ono i actually stopped watching the fight properly after about 10 rounds, thats never happened to me before. This fight was just total rubbish and a farce IMO.
It was like watching Muhammad Ali vs Larry Holmes, but it felt more like a circus to me as i've said already in a few threads.
Where was RJJ desire to give it one last shot ? and let it all hang out ? all he did was throw one punch at a time, and even when he might of stunned Joe Calzaghe. He never even went in for the kill, he has no killer instinct what so ever anymore.
And Joe Calzaghe's taunting was ridiculous, i don't mind some taunting in a fight. But he done it constantly and it just seemed like he was totally disrespecting a once great fighter RJJ. And what annoyed me more is RJJ let him do it, and never tried to counter Joe Calzaghe who was wide open and very hittable.
Im very disappointed i stayed up all that time, had my friends over and my girl. I was rooting for RJJ all the way even though i felt Joe Calzaghe was the favorite obviously.
And i get rewarded with a garbage fight like this, i knew RJJ was shot but i thought he would atleast try to win. But all he was there for was the paycheck which was obvious.
It felt like some freak exhibition fight to me Ono, very disappointing and sad for us fans.
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