Calzaghe doesn’t live up to great boxing Brits, scoffs Hopkins

JOE CALZAGHE is one of the most reluctant champions to see his name up in lights on the Las Vegas Strip and Bernard Hopkins insists he does not compare to the previous British fighter who received top billing.

While Ricky Hatton relished his three trips to Nevada last year, Calzaghe still has to be persuaded to accept that having his face glowing down from the giant neon billboards is really much to write home about.

And Hopkins said: “Calzaghe is probably a God in Europe but he is not a Ricky Hatton. Hatton showed a lot of balls a long time ago by coming over here and fighting. Joe had the opportunity when he was 32 or 33, not 36.”