Episode 2: 24/7 Jones-Calzaghe
By Robert Przybylo
BPrzybylo@opubco.com
I really should start taking notes when watching this show, but I think that defeats the whole purpose. Watching 24/7 is supposed to be fun, not work.
Besides, this is in no way supposed to be an analytical TV review. This is just a fight fan’s perspective on the best concept in boxing today.
So for episode two, we dive more into the family life of both Roy Jones Jr. and Joe Calzaghe. As I’ve said before, that’s what I love most.
If you’re an avid fight fan, you don’t really need to go down memory lane with either guy to know why they’re so good. I remember the James Toney, Reggie Johnson, John Ruiz fights for Jones just like the Jeff Lacy, Mikel Kessler and Bernard Hopkins battles with Calzaghe. I could just pop in my DVDs if that’s what I wanted.
I liked how they went into the strained relationship Jones has with his father. If that’s true about some of the training techniques (hitting Roy with a pipe while running, placing a board with nails sticking out in bob and weave drills), that’s messed up.
And it’s nice to know there is some peace between the two now even if all they have in common is their love of animals.
Interesting analogy by Enzo Calzaghe about boxing and music. The verse is the jab. It gets you into the fight/song and leaves you wanting more.
Joe is so likeable that he is almost boring. Being a great fighter doesn’t mean you have the most interesting life. This series is designed to help me cheer for RJJ and right now, eh, not really doing it. I think they’re both coming off well, and there is no obvious face/heel concept here.
Most interesting thing of the show: there was a PA announcer for Roy Jones III’s football game. He’s 8 years old, why is there a PA guy? I give Roy J (as RJ III is called) credit though. He had some moves for an 8 year old.
Also of note is RJJ saying he needed to get home so he wouldn’t overtrain. That happens. You know, you can get so amped up for a fight, you put too much into the camp. I figure nobody knows his body as well as Jones so I liked the honesty there.
So as we head into Thursday night’s finale, Joe is in NYC while Roy is on his way there. The final episode can be seen on HBO at 10 p.m. CST on Thursday and of course, the fight is next Saturday.
Whoops, got that Vic Darchinyan fight wrong. Of course, I’m not accepting blame. It looked like Cristian Mijares did not take the Armenian seriously. Darchinyan has freakish power at 115 and Mijares felt it early, late and when he was down for the count in round nine. Mijares is a fighter, but he didn’t look like he had a fighter’s mentality all throughout the fight last night.
And in MMA news, Patrick Cote will be out 6-8 months with a knee injury he suffered last week vs. Anderson Silva. Hope everything works out for him, and he can get back when he’s 100 percent.
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