Calzaghe getting fed up with all the talk from Hopkins

As Ricky Hatton found with Floyd Mayweather Jr, listening non-stop to a motormouth American opponent can drive you up the wall. Joe Calzaghe has just about become fed up with the non-stop talk from Bernard Hopkins, particularly the talk of how Hopkins's time in prison will mean he will have an easy time on Saturday's big fight.

"Hopkins had to go to prison to make himself hard, that means he is weak," Calzaghe said. "Me? I was born hard. Hopkins has been to prison. Big deal. Wow, give him a medal. Me I was knocking out guys who had been to prison when I was a 14 year old kid.

"I'm beginning to think they must teach people to talk shite out here when they are at school. They talk so much of it. I am going to make a grown man cry."

Comments

[Kevin O]

I hope that Hopkins is ready to eat humble pie on Sunday morning. The way he has spoken about Calzaghe and non-American is ignorant and terribly disrespectful. He makes out that he is some well traveled boxer because of one draw in Ecuador and an eight-round points win over a no-hoper as the house fighter in France. This is a big test of the Las Vegas judges. They have shown how much the favour the home fighter before. But Joe will be much too good for Hopkins.