By Eric Thomas: In the latest news, former champion Roy Jones Jr. (52-4, 38 KOs) made it clear after last night’s win by Joe Calzaghe over Bernard Hopkins that he wants to fight Calzaghe next, even if it means having to travel all the way to Wales to make the fight happen. The fight, if it happens, would likely be as big as the Hopkins bout despite Jones, 39, being a level below Hopkins at this stage in his career. The question is, would Calzaghe, 36, be interested in a bout with Jones? He has already said that he wants to be well paid in his last bout of his career, and a bout with Jones would figure to pay more than any other fight that Calzaghe would have on the horizon against one of the younger stars in the boxing world like Kelly Pavlik.

Jones reportedly wasn’t impressed with the Calzaghe-Hopkins bout, feeling that he could have done a better job than Hopkins, who mainly held onto Calzaghe, slowing the fight down, and landing mostly one shot at a time in the bout. Indeed, that would be easy to say, because even though Jones has slowed down somewhat in terms of hand speed, he still throws fast combinations and hasn’t shown the tendency to cling on his opponents like Hopkins has in recent years.

It would be interesting to see how well Jones, who was the best fighter in boxing for almost a decade from the 1990s to 2000, does against a fighter with equally fast hands like Calzaghe. In his prime, this would have been an intriguing bout to say the least but even now, at the ripe age of 39, Jones has the size, speed and power to present a lot of problems for Calzaghe, perhaps even more than Hopkins. It won’t hard for him to top the excitement of the Hopkins bout, since the fight turned out to be dull due to Hopkins clinching and grabbing.