For months we've been hearing and Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jnr. but now we can conform that...

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The fight will take place on September 20th at Madison Square Garden. The date was made available when Floyd Mayweather Jnr. retired and thus cancelled his proposed bout and rematch with Oscar De La Hoya.

HBO – the American cable network said it would only back the back as a PPV event if the fight was held Stateside, torpedoing his hope of fighting once more in front of his home fans at the Millenium Stadium. With Calzaghe having already of fought in Las Vegas, the only other place to fight was in The Garden and the undefeated two weight linear Champion is delighted that he'll bow out in the home of Boxing on that side of the Atlantic.

Ricky Hatton had also wanted to fight in New York but chose to make his fight with Paulie Malignaggi in Las Vegas. He did this because he wanted to make it for the fans as it was cheaper to travel to Nevada than it was to The Big Apple.

So it will be Calzaghe that tops a bill at The Garden and not Hatton like everyone expected. It will be a cracking fight and one that should cement Calzaghe's place amongst the greats should he win and it be his last fight. Jones Jnr. has had a great career and has been a great Champion. If Joe can beat him at Madison Square Garden and walk away from the sport then he'll be able to look back and rightly say he is a true Champion and a true boxing great.