By Dan Ambrose: I don’t know about any of you, but I thought the sole reason that Joe Calzaghe was fighting Roy Jones Jr., rather than Kelly Pavlik, was so that he could get the biggest payday possible while on the way out the door in the sport. Did I miss something? If anyone thinks for a second that a win over Jones, who is 39, almost 40 and hasn’t looked good in the ring in ages, will prove anything other than the fact that Calzaghe is good enough to beat a faded Jones, then I they need a wakeup call.
Don’t get me wrong, Jones was a great fighter in his day, much better probably than Calzaghe can ever hope to be, but he’s aged a little quicker than Calzaghe, probably due to all the hard fights that Jones has had over the years and he’s not nearly at the level he was years ago. A win is a win, and Calzaghe will always have the ‘W’ next to his name in his record book for Jones, if he beats him, but where’s the victory in beating him at this stage? In a way, it reminds me a lot of Oscar De La Hoya’s fight against Manny Pacquiao. Sure, De La Hoya will probably win, and get paid well in the process, but he won’t likely win much of any respect from fans for having beaten such a small fighter like Pacquiao.
By William Mackay: In an article from Tim Smith from the NyDailynews, Roy Jones Jr. (52-4, 38 KOs) stated that he’s not interested in a second fight with Bernard Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 KOs), saying he won’t be fighting him, that he doesn’t care what people think. Apparently, Jones offered Hopkins a fight in 2001, just after Bernard had stopped Felix Trinidad in a 12th round KO, but Hopkins reportedly turned down an eight million dollar offer and instead looked elsewhere. According to Smith, Jones then gave up Hopkins, and told him that he wasn’t interested in fighting him.
By Aaron Klein: While Joe Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KOs) continues to try and talk up the talent of his opponent Roy Jones Jr., who will supposedly be his last fight of his career on November 8th at New York’s Madison Square Garden, many in the boxing world aren’t so enamored by this fight and see it as merely Calzaghe cashing out of the sport the easy way in order to avoid more dangerous fighters like Kelly Pavlik or one of his many talented challengers to his WBO super middleweight title. Rather than have to continue to defend his WBO title, Calzaghe yesterday gave it up after 11 years. 
By Aaron Klein: Going into their fight on November 8th at Madison’s Square Garden, it’s very difficult for me to spot any real advantages that Roy Jones Jr. (52-4, 38 KOs) has going for against unbeaten Joe Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KOs) other than perhaps size. That’s a quality that I probably shouldn’t be overlooking too much, because Jones might end up being too big, too powerful and too fast for Calzaghe to handle. However, now a ripe 39, just doesn’t look on Calzaghe’s level at this time, and it takes me quite awhile of digging to find a time when I think Jones could possibly beat a fighter of Calzaghe’s talent level. 
By William Mackay: You can include me in for one of those people who are less than impressed with the level of opponents that unbeaten super middleweight Joe Calzaghe has faced in his career. In looking over the mostly average fighters that Calzaghe has built up his unbeaten record on, I see few fighters of worth on the list that jump out at me. I can’t help but be left with the general impression that Calzaghe has either been carefully managed, steered clear of top fighters in his career like Julian Jackson, Bernard Hopkins, Gerald McClellan, Antonio Tarver and James Toney, or he just didn’t care to fight them. 
By Michael Lieberman: Undefeated super middleweight Joe Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KOs) has had a stellar career, beating a variety of fighters some good and many not so good, but on November 8th barring another injury delay by Calzaghe, he’ll be facing easily the best opponent of his career in 39 year-old Roy Jones Jr. (52-4, 38 KOs) at the Madison Square Garden, in New York City, New York. Ignore for a second the age and recent losses by Jones, he’s got more than enough talent to beat the likes of Calzaghe. Jones, perhaps the best pure boxer that has come through the sport in the past half century, is a six-time world champion boxer with title wins in four different weight classes and previously held one title or another for 11 consecutive years fighting the best in the world over that time. 
By Nate Anderson: With the fight still a long three months in the future, tickets are flying off the shelves for the Joe Calzaghe vs. Roy Jones Jr. bout at the Madison Square Garden, in New York City, New York on November 8th. World Boxing Organization/World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KOs) perhaps was right in side-stepping around undefeated middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik to chose instead the 39 year-old Roy Jones Jr. for Calzaghe’s last fight of his great boxing career. 
By Jason Kim: The Oscar De La Hoya sweepstakes continue as the CEO of Golden Boy, Richard Schaefer, said yesterday that De La Hoya is now considering a fight with the following opponents, Ricky Hatton, Sergio Mora, Paul Williams, Roy Jones Jr. and Shane Mosley. De La Hoya, 35, was previously working on a fight with Manny Pacquiao, but that fight fell through when Pacquiao failed to accept Golden Boy’s offer of a 30% share of the PPV revenues for the fight. Pacquiao, however, was looking at getting at least 40%. 
By Michael Lieberman: In an interview with Setanta Sports News, undefeated super middleweight Joe Calzaghe remarked that he plans on fighting one more time on November 8th against Roy Jones Jr, and then retire from the sport, saying “I’ve achieved everything I can in boxing.” The comment is more than mildly amusing considering that Jones is 39 years-old, not much of a threat to any top fighter in either the super middleweight or light heavyweight divisions. Kelly Pavlik, the undefeated WBA/WBO middleweight champion, remains out there as a bit of unfinished business for Calzaghe, who previously said that he was interested in fighting him. 
By Dean Harman: Undefeated Joe Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KOs) and Roy Jones Jr. (52-4, 38 KOs) are ready to end their boxing careers on November 8th in a 12-round mega fight scheduled at the Madison Square Garden, in New York. After the fight was previously postponed because of an injury to Calzaghe, it will finally be taking place on three months from now, barring any more injuries to the brittle hands of the 35 year-old Calzaghe. In terms of excitement, this bout is just barely more interesting in the last fight of Calzaghe’s against 43 year-old Bernard Hopkins in April, which Calzaghe won by a 12-round split decision.