Roy Jones, Jr.'s Boxing Future Annulled by Calzaghe

Tuffy — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:35:11 EST

Joe Calzaghe fluttered Roy Jones, Jr. with a million love taps and took a unanimous decision at MSG over the man who seemed to have married into the Pound-for-Pound-Champion clan in the late 90s as it seemed to become his surname. That divorce is final as Calzaghe, 36, recovered from a bit of a surprise knockdown in the first to poke Jones, 39, into Bolivian (though we're partial to the Haitian divorce, ourselves). After the shakeup in the first round that sent Calzaghe to the mat, Jones didn't have much to do in the fight but bleed in one place. That 37th birthday is a bitch, we guess.

In the undercard, Zab Judah (of the KOGOD mancrush Judahs) pounded on Random Fighter #4 in a wide points decision. However, we recommend changing body lotions from Jergens to something used to cure meat; a little toughness on the epidermis wouldn't hurt.

Eye Candy [No Mas]
Judah Gets Back on Track [Sporting Life]

The Continuing Reign of Joe Calzaghe.

Unsilent Majority — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:12:51 EST

Back on Saturday night the longest tenured champion in all of boxing, Joe Calzaghe (44-0), defended power-punching Mikkel Kessler (for free) on HBO. Although the Dane proved to be one of Calzaghe's toughest opponents, he couldn't get enough going to out-point the aggressive champion. Calzaghe's reign has come in a weak division and he's hardly had to leave the UK to defend his titles, but the fact remains that he's won 21 consecutive fights as a champion. Kessler was the last of the serious competition amongst the super mids, so it looks like Bernard Hopkins is the next target. Calzaghe's promoter Frank Warren didn't waste much time before speculating on the future.

"Whatever he wants to do now, I will be right behind him. We would like to fight [Bernard] Hopkins, and he has suggested he would take the fight, so let's see if he is genuine about it or if they are just words. Joe would go and fight him in his backyard. If Hopkins wants it in Philadelphia, then that is where we would go."

I don't see any reason why this fight wouldn't happen, the only question that remains is that of the venue. As I said, Calzaghe has always forced opponents to come to him, but it's Hopkins that would make the fight a big event. Frankly, if the fight is held in Wales I don't see how Hopkins could leave with a favorable decision.

One other potential opponent could be Jermain Taylor. Once Kelly Pavlik dispatches of the over-sized middleweight he'll need somewhere to go and he'd be a great matchup for the free-wheeling Calzaghe.

In other Saturday action Juan Manuel Marquez defeated a bloodied Rocky Juarez in an action-packed clash on Showtime. It's not that often that you get to see one highly entertaining fight featuring a consensus top ten pound-for-pound champion of the world; on Saturday we had two, and neither was on Pay Per View.

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Roy Jones, Jr.'s Boxing Future Annulled by Calzaghe

The Continuing Reign of Joe Calzaghe.