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From fans' perspective, Calzaghe-Jones undercard failed to deliver

By George Kimball
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, November 9, 2008

NEW YORK -- Did the promoters -- in this case Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones themselves -- encounter a streak of uncommonly bad luck, or was Saturday's televised undercard a blatant case of the old bait-and-switch? From the time Calzaghe-Jones was announced, unbeaten Dmitry Salita's fans had looked forward to his biggest career challenge, a title bout against 140-pound belt-holder Andres Kotelnik that would have matched Ukraine-born boxers in the co-feature at Madison Square Garden. Another announ ...

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