You have to remeber a lot of those big names avoided him aswell tho. RJJ had already moved up to LHW and had no interest in going back down. Hopkins DUCKED calzaghe, Ottke refused to leave Germany causing a stalemate, James Toney was already long gone from SMW. The only one you could really say Calzaghe ducked was Johnson.
The "get to 40-0 and then start making the PPV money" culture of boxing is what's killing boxing.
Fights happen a decade after they should.
Thats why I'm on the fuck boxing bandwagon and <3 MMA, but I still love some classic boxing.
Odds on sport being dead in 10 years? It's a shame really.
He tried to fight Hopkins tho, they had arranged the fight to happen in AMERICA with Showtime, for a CAREER HIGH payday for Hopkins. Also there was calzaghes belt for Hopkins to take. But big bad uber Hopkins changed his mind at the very last minute and went onto fight a unknown for much much much less.
"A teleconference was set up in my office in New York for July 30th, 2002, and on the call was myself, Don King who was in the room, Frank Warren and Bernard Hopkins' lawyer, Arnold Joseph. Along with Arnold was a woman named Linda Carter, who was there on behalf of Bernard.
Kessler,Reid,Viet,Lacy.
And if anyone is clinging to anything its you. You come here with zero facts and just pure opinion and have not at any point backed that up. You big up people like Hopkins yet Hopkins spent majority of his career fighting nobodys and much smaller men. He didnt even elave america to fight.
You can easily argue RJJ was superior and no one will argue, but apart from that please list all these great fighters he avoided.
RJJ- different weight
Toney- Different weight
Hopkins - ran like a bitch
johnson- Calzaghe should have fought him after injurys i agree
Ottke - refused to fight
Clinton woods - riddled with injury and retired
Froch - lost to kessler who Calzaghe has beaten so a mute point
Taylor - lost to everyone and a true american hypejob
Dawson - i kinda agree here i think he should have made this his last fight
So please give us your expert analysis on all these fighters he ducked. Also skills wise he had Hopkins faking low blows and crying for 5mins rest liek the pussy he is. Yet in his next fight Hopkins demolished Pavlik, So he wasnt that shot. Also the fight before calzaghe he demolished someone.
He just seems to cause the most debate lol
When someone talks about great fighters JC's name is not one that comes to mind. Talk to me about Benn, Watson, Collins, Haggler, Hearns, SRL, Holyfield, Tyson, hell even Eubank...... see what i mean? BTW the list could go on for a long while and he still wouldnt feature on it.