Joe Calzaghe: a wasted career?

Top top post, couldn't have put it better myself

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Do you two want some time alone?

It seems you both have much to discuss. :hey

 

Yes, he is a low level great and I expect in time his 168 achievements to be overtaken. Ward seems well on his way to doing so, if he hasn't done so already.

Had he stepped up earlier he had a chance to be on par with the best of em. Just imagine had he battled it out with Hopkins, Toney, Jones etc when they were hot property.

 

To an extent in the same way as someone like Chris Eubank.

 

Posting this thread in here is like walking into a Southern Baptist church and asking if Jesus sucked his Apostles' dicks.

 

He would've had his ass handed to him.

 

i think the early parts of his career were wasted but he made up for it from 05-08

glen johnson made his name with a win over jones at light heavy in 2004. jc never moved up til 08

dont go there with sven oittke. joke of a champ

froch and dawson were only coming up when jc retired. jc retired in nov 08. froch won first title next month

lacy, kessler, hopkins were the best guys he could of fought and he did

 

lacy was the second coming of mike tyson. jc was 3-4 to 1 to win

kessler was also favoured to beat him

 

Bailey hugging a long-retired fighter's nuts all day long on an internet boxing forum, copying and pasting inane screeds off of his hard drive, like usual.

 

I like Joe. Don't get me wrong. But I find many of his fans on this board insufferable.

 

Lol @ Bailey owning all the knockers , great posts and only insults in return as he predicted . Joe was a fantastic fighter and retired a travelled unbeaten multi millionaire ( oh and let's not forget a first ballot IBHOF lock to boot ) some wasted career he had going on there .

 

i undersrtand the sentiment of the OP. It wasn't a wasted career but it could hasve been so much more! if he had taken on taylor or pavlik when they had just won the middleweight crown they would have been 2 great scalps. dawson would have been awesome too, even if he had to move up to get it. and froch as a domestic challenger would now look extremly good on his resume.

so add taylor, dawson and froch onto his resume and his legacy improves a lot!

 

I've always being a bit of a Calzaghe critic ... I think he flapped his punches and his show boating was cringey to say the least. He was however superbly consistent.

I initially scored the fight for Hopkins but when I watched it again I scored fairly clearly for Calzaghe. Any doubt about his greatness was removed by shredding up and coming Lacy (who was the real deal until that point) and Kessler who has gone on to be superb.

I like Calzaghe. I find him a nice chap. I hated him when he was boxing, and I hated his slappy style and inflated opinion of himself. However he's grown in me since he retired.

H2h I think prime Benn, prime Toney and prime jones all beat him quite easily but that's all hearsay. He did great you have to give him that.