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One more fight and I'm done, insists Joe Calzaghe who looks set to face Roy Jones Jnr

Joe Calzaghe insisted today that his next fight would definitely be his last.

His split-decision victory over Bernard Hopkins has opened up a potential goldmine for the Welshman but he has vowed not to be swayed from quitting after one more contest.

He said: "I can feel it no. I'm 36, boxing's my job but I've got other things in my life.

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"I don't want to push it too far. I don't want to get too greedy.

"One more fight — and that's it, I'm done.

"I'd like to think I've got the intelligence to retire at the right time."

The most likely option is a £20million November date with Roy Jones Jnr at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium — and Calzaghe believes he could send the 39-year-old American legend into retirement.

He added: "Only a couple of fights out there really appeal to me — one is Jones and the other Kelly Pavlik (America's WBC & WBO middleweight champion) and they'd have to be superfights.

"Roy Jones is definitely a possibility and 70,000 in the Millennium would be amazing.

"I've put one legend back into retirement — now maybe I can do the same to Roy Jones."

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