Carl Froch Fires Back at Jermain Taylor Over Calzaghe Jab

[Emanuel Steward]

Pascal handled it pretty well.

BTW, anyone know who's alt this is?

The Cobra's speed and power devastated Pascal. He will never be the same fighter again, he is ruined.

[S A M U R A I]

I've never seen anyone say that Jones ducked Calzaghe. That would be a truly crazy thing to say. But it's also unfair to say that Calzaghe never tried to get a fight with Jones when Jones was at his peak, or to say that he was unwilling to travel in order to do so. E.g. see , from 2000, and , from 2001. Neither of them ducked the other, it's just one of those things that it never happened.

Nice one. It's good to be able to back this up with articles from way back in 2000.



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[Edward Hitler]

Froch isn't welsh, nor a Derby County fan... so he can't be a sheep shagger. Don't try to be so racist because it backfires and makes you look the idiot.

haha you tell him

[Edward Hitler]

maybe if we get lucky if froch beats 1-2 big names after taylor maybe joe would come out of retirement and beat him down afterall frank warren seems to think he would comeback if it could better his name and the money was right if froch so desperate to fight joe y not offer him 90-10 or even all the cash how good would that look on his record he gave joe 100% of the ourse to tempt him out and them KO`d him never gonna happen but would boost froch up like nothin else would

[MELLY-MEL...]

man froch talks an aweful lot. if he does anything less than clean out the divison he will look very lame.

[Dave Rado]

Nice one. It's good to be able to back this up with articles from way back in 2000.

Also, for anyone who thinks Calzaghe didn't try to get a fight with Hopkins in his prime, from 2002:

"We had an agreement for the Hopkins fight to happen," said Warren. "I had discussed terms with Don King, who looks after Hopkins, and I had American TV with Showtime. I would have paid Hopkins £3 million, but suddenly he said he wouldn't take the fight unless he was paid £6m."

[Edward Hitler]

man froch talks an aweful lot. if he does anything less than clean out the divison he will look very lame.

i give him some credit for his confidence and willing to fight these ppl hes dissin but as it stands its all talk and he seems to do an awful lot of it he needs to back it up i no hes trying but if taylor beats him hes gonna get laughed at big time

[MELLY-MEL...]

i give him some credit for his confidence and willing to fight these ppl hes dissin but as it stands its all talk and he seems to do an awful lot of it he needs to back it up i no hes trying but if taylor beats him hes gonna get laughed at big time

i agree. i like a ****y sob, but man if he don't back it up by beating the top dogs he's gonna look hella weak.

[Edward Hitler]

Also, for anyone who thinks Calzaghe didn't try to get a fight with Hopkins in his prime, from 2002:

"We had an agreement for the Hopkins fight to happen," said Warren. "I had discussed terms with Don King, who looks after Hopkins, and I had American TV with Showtime. I would have paid Hopkins £3 million, but suddenly he said he wouldn't take the fight unless he was paid £6m."

i think he may have realised he would lose and thought if i theres a good chance ill lose i wanna be well paid for it

[Dave Rado]

i think he may have realised he would lose and thought if i theres a good chance ill lose i wanna be well paid for it

"Realised" is too strong, I'm sure Hopkins thought he could win, but he obviously thought it was a high risk fight and decided wanted no part of it at that time. Asking Showtime at the last moment to double the purse was not a genuine negotiating tactic, he just didn't want the fight at that time. (Hopkins used similar tactics in his negotiations with Roy Jones). Instead he took an alphabet mandatory against a nobody for far less money.