Calzaghe V Hopkins

[Darth Marty]

stop jumping the gun Howard....the same paper mentioned Rafa was off to Milan.
mmmmmm.....funny how people believe what they choose eh?

[Howard_lfc]

stop jumping the gun Howard....the same paper mentioned Rafa was off to Milan.
mmmmmm.....funny how people believe what they choose eh?

Down boy !!!! :howard reels another welshy in

I've already stated that I don't believe the Hopkins fight will go ahead. If we're talking a battle of britain I'd prefer to see JC fight Carl Froch to be honest.

[Darth Marty]

ha ha ha you know Calzaghe is my Kryptonite!!

Nah, Id prefer Froch to fight Kessler, Joe to take apart Jones Jnr or Hopkins id pretty much guarantee it!!

[Howard_lfc]

ha ha ha you know Calzaghe is my Kryptonite!!

Nah, Id prefer Froch to fight Kessler, Joe to take apart Jones Jnr or Hopkins id pretty much guarantee it!!

Froch v Kessler would be a cracker - I agree.

Hopkins doesn't wanna fight Joe - and Jones has a fight lined up already so where does that leave Joe?

[Darth Marty]

maybe thats why he wants the woods fight, a kinda warm up for the winner of the jones tito fight (which will be jones).

[Taffy]

If a Calzaghe-Hopkins fight is not to happen then it will be down to Hopkins' camp. Joe wants the fight but I very much doubt Hopkins wants it - he's been mouthing off recently but at the end of the day he doesn't want to fight him as he knows he'll lose, even over in his own back yard. Hopkins has been talking about how he's up to a fight with Joe, and in his own country, because it is what he wants everyone to hear, but now there's talk coming from his camp that they want him to fight someone else, which suits him down to the ground as I bet he doesn't really want the fight!

It won't be because Joe doesn't want it, it'll all be down to Hopkins and the stupid, crazy demands that he'll ask for (if they do put an offer on the table that is), as it was the last time around.

Hopkins is running scared of Joe and that is why he'll demand the huge fee (which he won't expect they'll agree to) as he knows he'll lose!

[Hollowman]

Hopkins has more or less suggested he wouldn;t be ready to fight until late next summer anyway, and Joe needs a fight before then. Taking belts in his first light-heavy fight would enable them to bill the next fight, be it Hopkins or the winner of Jones-Trinidad, as a world title fight too. Everyone wins.

[kurtangle01]

Shock horror ! Calzaghe in talks to fight Clinton Woods in 'Battle of Britain'. The fight nobody has been clamouring to see.......

And here's me thinking he was gonna go over to the USA and kick some ass....:whatever:

Leopard....change......spots......cant.:whatever:

Pathetic isn't it, Les? You just know that this fight will happen.

[kurtangle01]

Froch v Kessler would be a cracker - I agree.

Hopkins doesn't wanna fight Joe - and Jones has a fight lined up already so where does that leave Joe?

Kessler would beat Froch inside the distance imho.

[Howard_lfc]

Kessler would beat Froch inside the distance imho.

Not sure mate. I reckon Froch probably punches harder than anybody in the division. Froch could knock anybody out, he hits that hard.

[Chris]

Zzzzzzzzz more boring mouthing off here (with an idiotic comment from Hopkins), trying to sell a fight Bernard? The old fella will have rings run around him if this goes ahead, he only throws about 2 punches a round!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/7133862.stm

American Bernard Hopkins insisted he "would never lose to a white person" when he came face-to-face with Joe Calzaghe in Las Vegas on Friday.

Calzaghe, 35, beat Mikkel Kessler to become undisputed super-middleweight champion last month and is keen to fight Hopkins, 42, next year.

And the pair almost came to blows at the MGM Grand ahead of Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather's weigh-in.

"I would never let me a white boy beat me," Hopkins said five times.

"You can print that. I would never lose to a white person. He said on record that he's going to take the fight and that's all you need to hear.

"I haven't ducked nobody in my career, my credibility is intact. Kessler is not in my league, man. Who is Kessler? You think Kessler was a true warrior?"

Calzaghe and Hopkins caused such a commotion in the MGM Grand media centre that former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis broke off an interview nearby to listen, as dozens of journalists circled the pair.

"He ducked me four years ago," said Welshman Calzaghe. "He thinks he's a legend but he lost to Jermain Taylor twice and, believe me, he will lose to me.

"He will not beat me throwing 12 punches a round. I throw 1,000 punches a fight. He'll get his arse kicked, full stop.

"I'm undefeated for 17 years - look at his face and look at mine. He's all mouth. When he fights he doesn't fight, he holds.

"He's 42 and can't throw the punches like me, and if we do fight he's going to get beat."

Former middleweight king Hopkins, now campaigning at light-heavy, has a career record of 48 wins, four losses and a draw from 54 fights.

[felly]

I hope this fight does go ahead, id love to see Calzaghe beat Hopkins.

[Chris]

Calzaghe would batter him, think Hopkins would only get a round if Calzaghe let up with the relentless pressure and for that reason I think Hopkins won't let it happen.

[thesilverfoxlfc]

Hopkins is in great condition for a 42 year old!!!!

[Chris]

Hopkins is in great condition for a 42 year old!!!!

He certainly is.