Shut up Calzaghe... Bernard Hopkins

[RozzySean]

Joe made me a fan, and now he's making me hate him. It's fighters like him who ALWAYS approach boxing from the business end first and take the safest route possible that create problems in the sport. Oh, and that's why you don't have any fans outside the U.K. and Ricky Hatton does. You always play it safe. You are a waste of talent and greatness. Screw you, Joe. Go fight Dawson then talk to me. Nah, better to close the should with Glen Johnson at home. You knob.

[Lance Uppercut]

I am also starting to dislike him. I hope he gives Bad Chad a shot at the Light Heavyweight Championship, so that Chad can show him what what it is like to be in with a young, hungry light-heavyweight.

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Joe made me a fan, and now he's making me hate him. It's fighters like him who ALWAYS approach boxing from the business end first and take the safest route possible that create problems in the sport. Oh, and that's why you don't have any fans outside the U.K. and Ricky Hatton does. You always play it safe. You are a waste of talent and greatness. Screw you, Joe. Go fight Dawson then talk to me. Nah, better to close the should with Glen Johnson at home. You knob.

You pick Ricky as the archytype for a fighter who DOESN'T look at his career from a business stand point first and formeost

[RozzySean]

Joe made me a fan, and now he's making me hate him. It's fighters like him who ALWAYS approach boxing from the business end first and take the safest route possible that create problems in the sport. Oh, and that's why you don't have any fans outside the U.K. and Ricky Hatton does. You always play it safe. You are a waste of talent and greatness. Screw you, Joe. Go fight Dawson then talk to me. Nah, better to close the should with Glen Johnson at home. You knob.

You pick Ricky as the archytype for a fighter who DOESN'T look at his career from a business stand point first and formeost

It was the safe move to fight Mayweather? He could have pulled Calzaghe and fought Witter at home for a good paycheck and justified it fine. That was good business, but he lost his perfect record as a result. You misunderstand me? Ricky's career has been pretty well managed as well, but he had the guts to come to the US to fight a prime Floyd Mayweather. He spent time building his name here, and he has shown a commitment to making the fights that fans want (other than Junior Witter's 10 or so fans). He moved up in weight and fought Collazo in the US (a good fighter) for very average money to get exposer in the US. Hindsight is 20/20 since he dominated Paulie, but Paulie was the fight everybody wanted him to make, and he traveled to make it happen, same with Castillo.

Now fighting Pac is a big money, good busines fight, but it's also against a guy who just stopped Oscar and he'll need to come to the US most likely to make it happen. I'm not saying Ricky doesn't take business into consideration, but he's made an effort to build a fanbase here, whereas Joe never did, then bitches when people don't buy his PPV against and old ass Roy Jones.

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Joe made me a fan, and now he's making me hate him. It's fighters like him who ALWAYS approach boxing from the business end first and take the safest route possible that create problems in the sport. Oh, and that's why you don't have any fans outside the U.K. and Ricky Hatton does. You always play it safe. You are a waste of talent and greatness. Screw you, Joe. Go fight Dawson then talk to me. Nah, better to close the should with Glen Johnson at home. You knob.

You pick Ricky as the archytype for a fighter who DOESN'T look at his career from a business stand point first and formeost

It was the safe move to fight Mayweather? He could have pulled Calzaghe and fought Witter at home for a good paycheck and justified it fine. That was good business, but he lost his perfect record as a result. You misunderstand me? Ricky's career has been pretty well managed as well, but he had the guts to come to the US to fight a prime Floyd Mayweather. He spent time building his name here, and he has shown a commitment to making the fights that fans want (other than Junior Witter's 10 or so fans). He moved up in weight and fought Collazo in the US (a good fighter) for very average money to get exposer in the US. Hindsight is 20/20 since he dominated Paulie, but Paulie was the fight everybody wanted him to make, and he traveled to make it happen, same with Castillo.

Now fighting Pac is a big money, good busines fight, but it's also against a guy who just stopped Oscar and he'll need to come to the US most likely to make it happen. I'm not saying Ricky doesn't take business into consideration, but he's made an effort to build a fanbase here, whereas Joe never did, then bitches when people don't buy his PPV against and old ass Roy Jones.

Fighting Mayweather is as low a risk as you can get because you are expected to lose. Fighting Witter would have been way riskier, for smaller money and the possibility of damaging his legacy much more than a loss to Floyd.