Don\u2019t miss a second of this highly anticipated fight. Britain\u2019s Calzaghe is a -265 favorite with his Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight belt on the line. The Over\/Under in rounds is 11.5<\/strong>.<\/p>\n There are also several other fights that night including an IBF middleweight championship fight from Germany. Arthur Abraham (27-0, 22 KO\u2019s) is -1300 chalk over Raul Marquez (41-3-1, 27 KO\u2019s).<\/p>\n Jones Jr. (52-4, 38 KO\u2019s) remains one of the biggest names in boxing and is arguably the best boxer of his generation.<\/p>\n He had only one loss in his brilliant career until he hit the skids in 2004-2005 losing to Antonio Tarver, Glen Johnson and then Tarver again. The first two of those defeats were by knockout while the second loss to Tarver was a unanimous decision in which Jones Jr. seemed happy to simply survive the bout rather than trade punches.<\/p>\n Jones Jr. has rebounded since with three straight wins over Prince Badi Ajamu, Anthony Hanshaw and Felix Trinidad (coming last January). While the competition was hardly impressive, the victories re-ignited his career and earned him another shot in a spotlight fight.<\/p>\n Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KO\u2019s) is the former super middleweight champion who is fighting in the United States for just the second time. He\u2019s coming of a split decision win over Bernard Hopkins in April in Las Vegas. Calzaghe was knocked down in the opening round but rebounded to earn a controversial split decision.<\/p>\n The 36 year-old Brit says he wants to retire after this fight, but he doesn\u2019t want to go out a loser and is not going to the 39 year-old Jones Jr. for granted. Jones Jr. was invigorated by Hopkins\u2019 win as it showed what he can accomplish if he stays motivated and in shape.<\/p>\n “He’s been throwing punches since yesterday and I’ve been ducking and dodging them in my sleep because that’s what he does,\u201d said Jones Jr.<\/p>\n \u201cCome Saturday night, though, we’re going to see how he’s going to deal with me.”<\/p>\n Jones\u2019 comments have a ring of truth to them as many of the experts don\u2019t feel Calzaghe has the power to hurt him and that makes him a very attractive underdog at +205.<\/p>\n Roy Jones Jr. returns to the ring for the first time in almost a year. Pundits obviously expect he can match the undefeated Joe Calzaghe this Saturday on HBO pay-per-view…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1436],"tags":[2930,2713,3128,4419,4418,4416,1931,2934,4415,4413,4414,4417,632,911,1028,4412,1178,66508],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fight-club","tag-bet-on-fights","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-odds","tag-boxing-picks","tag-boxing-predictions","tag-calzaghe-odds","tag-fight-picks","tag-fight-predictions","tag-hbo-fights","tag-joe-calzaghe","tag-jones-jr-vs-calzaghe","tag-jones-jr-odds","tag-lines","tag-odds","tag-predictions","tag-roy-jones-jr","tag-sportsbookcom","tag-sportsbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106539,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/106539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hopkins may be 43 years-old but his win over Kelly Pavlik last month showed he has a lot left in the tank and lends more credence to Calzaghe\u2019s win.<\/p>\n
\n“This is redemption for him so you can’t write Roy Jones off,\u201d Calzaghe said. \u201cHe’s in great shape, the best he’s been in for years, so I can’t go in there sloppy like I did with Hopkins or else I’m heading for trouble.”<\/p>\nBet on the Saturday Night Fights \u2014 HBO BOXING – AT THE WORLD\u2019S BIGGEST SPORTSBOOK – CLICK HERE!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"