If YOU were Joe Calzaghe, would you come out of retirement to fight Andre Ward?

Theres two sides to that. For me, a good win is a sizeable score advantage. This was more of a pyrrhic victory, because it was barely a victory. But yeah you can argue becuase he met his match with Reid, it was the highest rung that Calzaghe had acheived up to that point in his career (until Kessler came along).

 

yeah he screwed up bigtime. no longevity at all.

maybe I overrate him a bit, but I still contend that, even though SMW was a minnow division at the time, he was within a couple of points (versus Calzaghe and Ottke) of being a three time champion at SMW.

we need a Bailey translator, to be fair. Just change the word he uses for an almost opposite word, and it becomes sense ' Mger is a poor win' - problem solved|!

 

No.

Malinga ud loss
Calzaghe sd loss
Branco ud loss

 

Reid had 'character flaws', which clearly limited his career. He was basically in sleepwalking mode against Malinga. He used every dirty tactic under the sun against Lacy. it looked to like like he was going to mess up the Calzaghe fight, until he found out that he could land at will with the right hook.
He was a lot like Zab Judah and Clottley, talented, but with character flaws.

I thought Calzaghe nicked it by about 1-2 points. I had Reid clearly winning the Ottke fight.

 

Calzaghe said himself that he didn't want to fight anymore good fighters after that fightatsch, which is why his opposition dropped after that. The Lacy fight was the first opponent he faced who was ranked within the ring top ten and on a winning streak. History has not been kind to the Lacy win, but I would place it above the Reid win.

 

Coming out of retirement would be a stupid move.

 

When you say 'Robin was never as good as Calzaghe', that flies in the face of the fact thatRobin had Calzaghes number that night. The decision could have gone either way, because he WAS as good as JC that night.

He was as good as JC for at least that night, or to put it another way JC was as good as Robin Reid that night. The scoreline doesnt lie, there was virtually nil difference between their performances.

 

N-O. And I'm one of Calzaghe's biggest fans.

He looses this fight in his prime. I don't think anybody beats Andre Ward. Definitely not now, there is nobody out there to even offer a challenge at the weight, he has beat them all, who else is coming up who can challenge within the next 2 years?

DeGale?
Groves?
Eubank Jr?

MAYBE DeGale if he pulls his finger out, maybe Eubank Jr, but I think its way to early. Ward is years ahead mentally, physically, and ability wise. Unless one fighter starts shocking a few people and improving rapidlly, I think Ward wipes the floor with everybody.

Martinez?
Canelo?

But I'm talking about AT the weight.

 

nobody beats andre ward? a past prime bike nearly did it. he'd been out of the ring for a long time as well. i had that 115-113 to ward.

ward is fighting guys that have no inside game what so ever. that's all he's doing. i wasn't surprised the dawson fight happened because he had the style that ward likes to fight. the other one was pavlik... and hay ho, it looks like he's fighting him next.

predictable.

 

But also looked to have Ottke win
Nardiello away win
Cherifi win
Magee undefeated win


Also we know you never watched the Malinga fight, if you did you would know Reid wasnt beat up, very little happend. It was an odd fight.
Branco, he was a world class SMW who beat prime G Johnson and became WBA LHW champ

Some polls had Reid rated above Calzaghe and Calzaghe went in injured where he couldnt do much sparring was being troubled before the fight with people putting glass in his either food or drink, forget which and yet went out and beat a top SMW.

Reid wouldnt fight Calzaghe when champ, so Calzaghe fought Reid when he had everything to lose and nothing to gain.

Ask yourself this. How could you not score rounds 2, 3, 4,7, 8 (

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), 12 to Calzaghe? Remember Reid had a point deducted also.

I thought like 2 judges that Calzaghe was a clear winner and except for McCrory who scored a draw and later seemed to agree all of the other studio guest scored wide for Calzaghe including Mcguigan and Eubank. I also think damaged handed (damaged his hand in round 4) Calzaghe won and felt he won rounds 1, 9 (Reid did land the punch of the night in round 9 though) & 11.
I thought Calzaghe won 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12 and Reid had a point deducted.

Good away win for Calzaghe

 

Everyone has forgotten how much Ward didnt want to fight Bute and ducked him.
Ward wouldnt want to fight Calzaghe, he is too used to fighting his leftovers and leftovers of

 

Mkrtchyan beat undefeated 26-0 European champ Chanet, was only beaten clearly by world champs or fighters who became world champs and remember Chanet who Mkrtchyan beat undefeated Tsypko who many felt beat Lacy and the same Tsypko who has a win over Magee who is challenging Kessler next for the vacant WBA regular title. Theres the form line in amongst some nothing wins

 

Reid vs Malinga (past prime)

Power: Reid
Handspeed: Reid
Footspeed: Reid

Jab: Malinga
Defense: Malinga
Offense: Malinga

Boxing IQ: Malinga
Reaction to adversity: Malinga

outcome:
Malinga took the center of the ring, while Reid circled around him. Reid would try his telegraphed rush attacks, which Malinga would either block or slip. In return when Malinga took the initiative he would disrupt Reid's rhythm with his jab and follow through with his right cross. Reid had no answer to Malinga's jab, he also could not land on Malinga either.

The Sky commentators after scoring the early rounds a draw started to give rounds to Malinga. he judges did the same thing which is why Malinga won by a large margin. After that fight Reid's face was marked from the constant punches he got caught with. He even said he got beat up in the post fight interview

Conclusion: Of course I haven't seen the fight:good