Tell me Boxing fans. Do/did you rate Calzaghe and Kessler as stay at home fighters?

Does Calzaghe "catch less ****"? Or does he just get a different kind of crap? Because I've seen more people crapping on Calzaghe for beating Hopkins and Jones than I've seen people crapping of Kessler for fighting bums at home after losing abroad.

 

Kessler's trip to Oz is almost the same distance Joe travelled his whole fighting career.

 

Joe catches moe crap probably because he has more annoying fans than Kessler does, and Kessler is nowhere near the fighter Joe is resume wise.

 

****in dumb Yanks.

He was Wesh, most of his fights were AWAY from home you tool.

 

While Joe did indeed often fight in Wales, he also fought in England almost if not as much as well which despite what 95% of Americans think is not the same country. He even fought in Scotland a one or two times. He also fought Roy and Bhop in their backyards so he gets a lot of credit. Kessler is more of a stay at home fighter, but not in the same bracket as Ward , Ottke or Bute (pre Froch)

 

I already answer that.

 

Both of them , yes. The ratio of home fights is far greater than away fights. Its basic logic. Whats the point of this?

 

Yes

 

Kessler crossed the pond and fought a live opponent who wasn't 40+. Compared to Joe, that makes him look like a world beater.

I do have some questions about geographic rivalries in the UK, though. Which regions have sports rivalries with each other, and which are the most heated? For example, in the States New York and Boston are rivals in pretty much everything, as are San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Does that happen over there?

 

Kessler travelled more, I believe? But not much more - all his fights up to Zaghes were almost invariably in Copenhagen?

But my thinking is that he was a bit stupidly brave after he started winning titles. Hes a bit thick to be blunt! A bit too far right of cocky in my estimate to accept fights with decent foreign opponents without some kind of rematch clause at home. From what I've seen he seems to lack ringsmarts too. He still isnt much of a traveller, though hes not yet finished his career so its maybe a little premature to judge him.

Calzaghe was a smarter man - he didnt fall for that trap. Zaghes was smarter inside and outside the ring, in fact.

 

Not Calzaghes fault that so many Americans ducked him.