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“I told you Roy Jones Jr. is back…I’ll take the winner of either the re-match between Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor or Joe Calzaghe vs. Bernard Hopkins. I’m even willing to go down to 156 pounds to face Oscar De La Hoya in May. Line them up and I’ll knock them down.”
“I’m pretty much Mr. Unstoppable.”
Thus spoke Roy Jones Jr. after his win over Felix Trinidad in January of this year.
A few months later Jones got his wish. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2683 defeated Hopkins and the belated superfight was set.
Though his title run began in October of 1997, only now in 2008 has Joe http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=162 become a recognizable figure in America. One recalls the old argument (which is still comically trotted out by the diehards today) from militant blacks and feminists that a woman or minority has to do twice as much to get half the attention. The reality is that when it comes to sports in the Western world circa 2008 the exact opposite is true. More often than not it is the white male athlete who must string together win after win, success after success to gain a modicum of praise from a hostile and prejudiced media. Thanks to Calzaghe’s media mandated ten-year apprenticeship up until this year more people knew the name Danica Patrick than Joe Calzaghe.With a win over Bernard “I’ll never let a white boy beat me” Hopkins already in the bag it must have been supremely motivating for the Welshman to step into the ring at Madison Square Garden on November 8th knowing he had a chance to pull a daily double and defeat the second of the twin titans of American boxing.
After being floored in the first round by what can only be described as a strange “punch” which upon replay was shown to have been a forearm shiver to the head, Calzaghe, just as he has done before, calmly rose to his feet and continued to box. Round after round Joe pumped ten years of media blackout into the face and body of Mr. Unstoppable. Over the final rounds the fight became a bloody farce. A right hand ripped open a nasty cut over Jones’ left eye which nearly stopped the fight. When it was over Joe Calzaghe stood with his hands raised in victory for the 46th consecutive time of his http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1270.
For his part Jones was gracious in defeat paying Calzaghe the highest of compliments calling him the best pound for pound fighter in the world. Gone was the confidence, gone was his patented gamefumes stalking routine both replaced with a humble and sportsmanlike “I couldn’t figure him out.”
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