Calzaghe - Retired for good?

[skel1983]

calzaghe wont be back in a boxing ring professionally again that i am 99.9% sure of.

Too much to lose too little to gain.

Joe wouldnt be able to make 175 again in a life of sundays, and he sure as hell wont be fighting cruiser or a catchweight anytime in the next 3-4 years!!

He wont make 175 again? He would make 175 easily mate, 168 maybe wouldnt make again but 175 easily, he was eating three course meals two days before the RJJ fight.

How much money do you reckon Joe has between 10-15 million or not even that? He seems a quite grownded guy so i dont think he will need the money, but like Phil said if Froch deos make some serious noise and starts getting some heavy recognition over here and the States, like i say starnager things have happened probably would have to happen at a catch weight.

[Drago]

i dont wanna see this fight as by time froch made a big name of himself joe will be even older, joe dont need this fight, froch does but joe dont do it man

[leftylee]

He's too busy hooking up with 20 year old Models.

[skel1983]

He's too busy hooking up with 20 year old Models.

ha did you reead that in the mirror today quality.

[leftylee]

He's too busy hooking up with 20 year old Models.

ha did you reead that in the mirror today quality.

Yeah mate haha funny stuff I get the Mirror all the time.

[C.J.Rock]

Calzaghe got awarded a gift SD win over Bernard Hopkins. Bernard offered Calzaghe a rematch in wales in front of Joe's hometown fans. What a finale it offered for Joe. BUT Knowing he got lucky in the first fight meeting a not 100% fit Hopkins and getting knocked down in round one he got a SD victory he didnt deserve. Joe shot his fans the bird and RETIRED purely to save his precious 0 he's ducked & dived to keep throuout his career. He knew if he met a 100% Hopkins bang goes the 0

[Stander]

Calzaghe got awarded a gift SD win over Bernard Hopkins. Bernard offered Calzaghe a rematch in wales in front of Joe's hometown fans. What a finale it offered for Joe. BUT Knowing he got lucky in the first fight meeting a not 100% fit Hopkins and getting knocked down in round one he got a SD victory he didnt deserve. Joe shot his fans the bird and RETIRED purely to save his precious 0 he's ducked & dived to keep throuout his career. He knew if he met a 100% Hopkins bang goes the 0

Which is exactly why Freddie Roach stopped training Hopkins. He said Hopkins didn't know where he was at times and walked to the wrong corner twice after taking those masses of speed punches from Calzaghe.

[littlebif]

Calzaghe got awarded a gift SD win over Bernard Hopkins. Bernard offered Calzaghe a rematch in wales in front of Joe's hometown fans. What a finale it offered for Joe. BUT Knowing he got lucky in the first fight meeting a not 100% fit Hopkins and getting knocked down in round one he got a SD victory he didnt deserve. Joe shot his fans the bird and RETIRED purely to save his precious 0 he's ducked & dived to keep throuout his career. He knew if he met a 100% Hopkins bang goes the 0

If is was a gift decision why did Hopkins keep trying to waist time and con the ref?

If it was any other ref in there Hopkins would'nt of been aloud to hold his way through the fight and leave his head in at times.

I was a close fight but it wasnt a gift.

[Fenster]

Calzaghe got awarded a gift SD win over Bernard Hopkins. Bernard offered Calzaghe a rematch in wales in front of Joe's hometown fans. What a finale it offered for Joe. BUT Knowing he got lucky in the first fight meeting a not 100% fit Hopkins and getting knocked down in round one he got a SD victory he didnt deserve. Joe shot his fans the bird and RETIRED purely to save his precious 0 he's ducked & dived to keep throuout his career. He knew if he met a 100% Hopkins bang goes the 0

Hopkins next fight did 190,000 PPV buys against Pavlik. 190,000. Pavlik. HBO have currently refused to go above a $3million pot for Hopkins-Adamek. They paid a reported $6million for Calzaghe.

No-one was paying for that ugly shit again.

[Althugz]

No-one was paying for that ugly shit again.

You mean that masterclass of boxing that Hopkins delivered to Pavlik? That fight was far from ugly - more like a thing of beauty

[Rantcatrat]

No-one was paying for that ugly shit again.

You mean that masterclass of boxing that Hopkins delivered to Pavlik? That fight was far from ugly - more like a thing of beauty

No doubt as was the master class of boxing Calzaghe put on Roy Jones. The problem is that neither of those fights sold any PPV's. Moreover, Hopkins v. Calzaghe was ugly. It wasn't a fun fight to watch. That can't be denied.

How about a winner of the SMW tournament versus Calzaghe assuming it isn't Mikkel?

As for Hopkins: Hopkins v. Adamek would sell out the Prudential Center in Newark and a fight with Adamek would be more interesting because Adamek probably is too big for Hopkins to bully although I still lean toward Hopkins. another fight for Hopkins would be against Cunningham in Killadelphia.

[Gandalf]

Calzaghe is retired for good. No chance he will come back now and too bloody right.

Old idiots like Hopkins, let them go on 'till kingdom come. I will laugh as they fall upon the rocks. The silly old coots.

[Rantcatrat]

Calzaghe got awarded a gift SD win over Bernard Hopkins. Bernard offered Calzaghe a rematch in wales in front of Joe's hometown fans. What a finale it offered for Joe. BUT Knowing he got lucky in the first fight meeting a not 100% fit Hopkins and getting knocked down in round one he got a SD victory he didnt deserve. Joe shot his fans the bird and RETIRED purely to save his precious 0 he's ducked & dived to keep throuout his career. He knew if he met a 100% Hopkins bang goes the 0

I didn't know Hopkins wasn't 100% for that fight and I've never heard that. Don't forget Calzaghe went to the United States to fight Hopkins in the first place and Hopkins was probably the most dangerous opponent for Calzaghe at the time. He risked that 0 in the first fight.

The thing about that fight was how ugly Hopkins made it look. I got the feeling that if Hopkins didn't hold the whole fight and hadn't taken five minutes to rest when he was hit with a blow that wasn't actually low, and actually fought Calzaghe, Calzaghe would have made it look easy.

Also, Hopkins acted like a complete douche leading up to the fight so it makes sense that Joe wouldn't fight him again. And ask yourself if the reason Hopkins was willing to go to Wales to fight Joe again was because he thought he would take a decision from Joe in Wales when he couldn't get a decision from him in the USA or if Hopkins just wanted another major pay day? And to be honest, I'm not sure how you can say Joe didn't deserve a split decision. He hit Hopkins more than any other fighter ever. No matter the punching power of if the punches were tit-tat, Hopkins has never been hit that many times ever. Pavlik, Taylor, Trinidad, De La Hoya. No one can claim to have done that.

Anyway, it's besides the point.

I'm curious if Froch wins the SMW tournament (which he won't do, let alone his first match imo), if Calzaghe would come out of retirement to end the question of who is the best SMW in Britain.

[Kirkland Laing]

I'm curious if Froch wins the SMW tournament (which he won't do, let alone his first match imo), if Calzaghe would come out of retirement to end the question of who is the best SMW in Britain.

Froch will get beaten by Kessler and that'll end the question for the few hundred people in Nottingham who think Froch could beat him.

I think Froch could be in big trouble in his first fight too. I'm probably going to pick him to win though because Dirrell is untested. Dirrell looks like he can box as well as Jermain Taylor. If he's got stamina to go with it he could beat Froch easily, but I have a feeling Froch will keep his winning streak going somehow.

[Stander]

To note, the fighter to hit hopkins with the most punches before Calzaghe was Roy Jones. Joe C hit hopkins with more punches than a prime Roy Jones!