Calzaghe Snubs Woods offer

Super middleweight Champion Joe Calzaghe has allegedly turned down a £1m offer to fight Sheffield's IBF light heavyweight champion Clinton Woods.

Woods' promoter Dennis Hobson said: "We were offering Calzaghe more than he'd ever been paid in his career before. "We were prepared to co-promote and make the fight for Wales. If that's not good enough, what is?"

Calzaghe's promoter Frank Warren has pencilled in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on 8 July for his charge's next fight, with American legend Roy Jones Jr the intended opponent.

Meanwhile Woods fights DeLisle on the same night as his stable-mate Ricky Hatton challenges Luis Collazo for the WBA welterweight crown in Boston.

Woods won his last fight with DeLisle, an world-title eliminator, on a 12th round stoppage, but was dropped in the opening round.

"I've got my mandatory against Glen Johnson coming up and I didn't want to go into that fight having not fought since I beat Julio Gonzalez last September.

"Jason DeLisle has been shouting his mouth off to anyone who'd listen that he nearly knocked me out in the first fight, so don't sing it, Jason - bring it!