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Roy Jones Jr. challenges light heavyweight world champion Joe Calzaghe on Nov. 8 (HBO PPV) at New York's Madison Square Garden in "Battle of the Superpowers," a showdown between two of boxing's biggest stars. Throughout the remainder of his training camp, Jones will be keeping in touch with Dan Rafael of ESPN.com and providing an exclusive blog leading up to the fight.

Even though I'm getting ready for a big fight against Calzaghe -- a fight I know I am going to win -- I took a little break from my training camp in California, Pa., to go to Atlantic City last weekend to check out the fight between Bernard Hopkins and Kelly Pavlik.

But I didn't take too much of a break. Before I left, I trained on Saturday morning. Then I flew an hour to Philly and drove another hour to Atlantic City. I train six days a week and Sunday is my rest day, so I didn't miss any training to go to the fight.

Going to the fight was a fun thing for me. I enjoyed being there. It made me even hungrier for my own fight. While I was there I had a chance to meet with some of the press guys before the fight and to talk them about the Calzaghe fight. I think they were surprised I was on time, but I enjoyed talking with those guys and I'm glad they're interested in my fight. I also had a chance to go on the pay-per-view broadcast and do an interview about the fight with Jim Lampley. I hope you're all watching on Sunday night when the first episode of "Calzaghe/Jones 24/7" comes on HBO (8:30 ET/PT).

But back to Hopkins and Pavlik. I knew Bernard was going to win. He already had Pavlik figured out when they signed for the fight. I thought Bernard fought a perfect fight. Kelly is a good young champion and an up-and-comer, but he doesn't have the experience at the next level like guys like me and Bernard and Calzaghe have. He only beat Jermain Taylor, another guy who is a good fighter, but green. Bernard took Kelly to school at the next level.

When they were talking about Pavlik fighting Calzaghe before they made the fight with Bernard, I told people Calzaghe would kill Pavlik because he didn't know enough. I thought Bernard would do the same thing. The only thing I worried about with Bernard was his age. He's 43, so the only thing I was worried about was would his legs hold up. But after the first round, I knew Kelly wasn't going to beat him. Bernard is just too smart for him. I was laughing because I knew what was going to happen. I was like, "Wow, this is great for Bernard. Kelly is making him look so good." I was sitting ringside with Ross Greenburg (president of HBO Sports) and I told him in the first round, "This fight is over. Kelly won't have a chance tonight." He looked at me and said, "Yeah, I can tell."

With that win, people want to see me and Bernard do it again after I beat Joe. I beat Bernard 15 years ago and I will do it again if we fight. I'd like that fight and if it makes sense and we come up with a good deal, for sure I will do it. People want to see if Bernard can get revenge. But first I need to take of Joe, which I will do.