05.01.08 Calzaghe v Hopkins live stream soon?

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Bernard Hopkins believes a contract to fight Joe Calzaghe in Las Vegas on 11 or 12 April will be signed no later than next week.

"We have an oral agreement. They have stood up for the last five years of my career," he told the Boxing Talk site.

"I'm just looking to make it happen and expect things to be wrapped up by the middle of next week at the latest. It's one of the biggest fights in boxing."

He added it would take place at the Mandalay Bay or MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Philadelphian Hopkins, 42, is widely regarded as the best light-heavyweight in the world, and the match with Wales' undisputed super-middleweight champion Calzaghe is likely to be made at the 175lb, light-heavyweight limit.

The pair squared up at the MGM Grand hotel in Vegas last month at the weigh-in for Ricky Hatton v Floyd Mayweather, sowing the seeds for another big British-US clash.

Pound-for-pound great Hopkins said he "would never let a white boy beat me" as he tried to taunt 10-year super-middleweight champion Calzaghe, who laughed off his boasts.

BOXING'S 10-YEAR CHAMPIONS

Joe Louis, 1937-49
Archie Moore, 1952-62
Julio Cesar Chavez, 1984-94
Azumah Nelson, 1984-94
Ricardo Lopez, 1990-2001
Bernard Hopkins, 1995-2005
Joe Calzaghe, 1997- ???

Newbridge-born Calzaghe, 35, has long been after a 'super-fight' against former middleweight king Hopkins, and is now ready to fight in the States.

The Welshman has won all of his 44 fights, with 32 knock-outs, and in his last outing he beat Mikkel Kessler to add the WBC and WBA titles to his WBO belt.

Hopkins, known as 'The Executioner', has a record of 48 wins, four defeats and one draw, and is one of only seven men (including Calzaghe) to have held world titles for 10 years.

"I've been training softly for the last two or three months, but hardcore training will start in two or three weeks from now," said Hopkins.

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