Let Joe Have a Civil War... ; Booing Anthem Would Hinder Calzaghe
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AMERICAN disgust at the wholesale booing of The Star-Spangled Banner by Ricky Hatton's followers here last December was so pronounced that the promoters of this weekend's Joe Calzaghe- Bernard Hopkins bout inserted a clause in the contract banning national anthems.
Tom Jones, though, can oil his larynx because Calzaghe's camp successfully argued in favour of retaining the sacred gladiatorial tradition. But, in an especially political transatlantic clash, billed with all the hyperbole Las Vegas can muster as the 'Battle of the Planet', the possible effect on referee Joe Cortez of another round of cringe-inducing heckling has added to the sense that Calzaghe will have to comprehensively outbox Hopkins to win their $10million face-off.See the full content of this document
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Let Joe Have a Civil War... ; Booing Anthem Would Hinder Calzaghe
To appreciate the culture shock of the jeering before the Hatton- Mayweather fight, you needed to be in the arena to record the earpiercing volume of the boos and whistles and see the disgust that...
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