Revitalised Jones targets superfight with Calzaghe
Last updated at 10:36 20 January 2008
Roy Jones jnr stepped up his bid to fight Joe Calzaghe after he overcame fellow
veteran Felix Trinidad at Madison Square Garden.
The 39-year-old believes he still has what it takes to compete with boxing's
best, three years after being written off as past his prime.
And the American eight-time, four-weight title holder believes a showdown with
Wales' undisputed world super-middleweight champion Calzaghe is the perfect way
to prove it.
Jones and promoter Don King claimed they would be flying to Wales by private
jet today in an effort to ratchet up the pressure on Calzaghe and his promoter
Frank Warren to agree to a fight in Cardiff, either after the Welshman has
fought Bernard Hopkins in Las Vegas in April or as replacements for the
43-year-old Hopkins.
"We're going to Wales in the morning on a (Boeing) 737," King said last
night.
Jones added: "I'm definitely looking to make that fight and I'm going there
tomorrow.
"I'll fight anybody, anywhere, any time and if Hopkins-Calzaghe finishes how I
think it will, I'll even go to Wales and fight. I don't care."
Jones was delighted with his night's work, particularly in the face of
criticism he was too old to be in the ring.
He twice knocked down 35-year-old Puerto Rican Trinidad, who himself had come
out of a near three-year retirement, to win a unanimous decision after 12
rounds.
"All my fans around the world said I was done," said Jones, who won the fight
117-109, 116-110, 116-110 on the judges scorecards.
"But you never know when you're going to be here, or when you're going to go,
so you can never know when it's your time.
"I had a great training camp and great sparring partners and I'm pretty much
Mr Unstoppable."
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