Joe Calzaghe W12 Roy Jones... For the second time in a row, world light heavyweight champion Joe Calzaghe was dropped in the opening round  but got up to win a decision against a future hall of famer.  At New York City's Madison Square Garden, Roy Jones decked Calzaghe with consecutive right hands in the first round but Jones had few highlights over the next eleven rounds. Calzaghe threw more punches in round two, but Jones still managed to land the cleaner punches of the frame, which was the last one that could have possibly been scored for Jones. After that, Calzaghe continued to fight at the very fast pace set in the first two rounds, but the former pound-for-pound king slowed his output noticably.  Like Evander Hoylfield in the third Riddick Bowe fight, Jones seemed to age before our eyes. Calzaghe once again outworked Jones in the fifth round, and Jones' right eye was beginning to swell. Jones looked like an old man who was trying to counterpunch but simply couldn’t get his punches off in time.  Calzaghe never looked back, and things got much worse in the seventh when a Calzaghe left opened a bad cut over Jones’ already swollen left eye. Jones’ corner was in total disarray as his cutman never entered the ring between rounds, and trainer Alton Merkerson’s efforts did nothing to stop the blood flow during the break. The cut only  worsened in eight round to the point where the fight probably should have been stopped.  Give Roy credit for coming out for every round after the ninth, and lets hope a plastic surgeon can prevent the bad cut from turning into a lump of scar tissue over Jones’ eye (see: Iran Barkley). Calzaghe seemed to take pity on Jones in the twelfth round by refusing to go after his bloody opponent with any real aggression. Calzaghe wound up with a 117-109 lead on Boxingtalk's card, and all three official scores were 118-109.