Bob Foster vs Joe Calzaghe At LHW

Good point!..

 

Great points !! Calzaghe was dropped by Jones and Hopkins who are nowhere close to Foster`s league in terms of punching.Foster would only need one solid left hook to finish Calzaghe...

 

He'd beat Joey Maxim. :smoke

 

Schmeling is an absolute ****ing runt compared to Vlad. So are Marciano, Louis, Dempsey, etc.

Webster's Dictionary:

runt

3
: a person of small stature


What are you mad about?

Calzaghe fought only twice at LHW at the end of his career, and one of those was against Bernard Hopkins. Meanwhile, back in reality, most SMWs in Calzaghe's era are as big in the ring as the average LHW of the 60s and 70s.

Being past prime doesn't mean you don't have hand speed or can't punch hard. Moreover, Calzaghe recovered well.

For a fighter with that kind of volume, he had very good defense. And getting tagged by Bernard Hopkins or even the corpse of Roy Jones doesn't disprove that. And if you want to talk about getting hit, Doug Jones beat the **** out of Foster.

Again, you're making a distinction between LHW and SMW that doesn't really exist. Calzaghe was a 60s-70s LHW his entire career.

 

Modern 168 is as big in the ring as 60's 175. Stop trying to invent a size advantage for Foster that isn't really there.

 

You might even call Calzaghe a runt compared to foster, eh.

 

Stop trying to invent a 175 calzaghe that never existed

 

Just Qawi. :smoke




















(Had you going there, didn't I.)

 

I wouldn't pick Foster to beat old Hopkins either.

That is intellectual dishonesty. We should take the best version of each as they are de facto in the same weight division. Instead you want to take an older Calzaghe with bad hands. Why, you don't think Foster could take the prime version or what?

Foster hitting much harder than Roy Jones is fiction. It's old time propaganda and nothing more. If Jones fought the guys that Foster did, he'd have a higher KO ratio than Foster.

I don't remember ever seeing Calzaghe beaten up, which is more than I can say about Foster.

This is boxing, people get tagged. Calzaghe is not just right in front of Foster for Foster to tee off on him. He'd be in and out, side to side, turning Foster. I don't see Foster landing the jab. Inside, Calzaghe has the advantage.

Foster was 24, with extensive amateur experience. Look at how easily Doug Jones lands on Foster. That's not magically going to change. Show me a fight where Calzaghe gets hit like that.

 

Trust me, whenever the old time nutbags start piling onto someone by brutal KO, you pretty much know that reality is practically the diametric opposite. I remember it wasn't so long ago that they had all kinds of runts just walking through guys like Vlad. atsch

 

This is a hypothetical you ****wit. They are de facto the same size. The 168 didn't exist in Foster's time. Calzaghe would have been a 175 fighter then.

Tiger was nearly done and he wasn't a LHW. Also, notice how of all those opponents you mentioned, none is a legit power puncher at 175. Foster protecting that disgraceful chin...

Roy Jones was big at 160 and 168, not 175. Jones was about 182 in the ring. Most of his opponents were also well over 175. Furthermore, most of the "light heavyweights" that Foster fought would be middleweights or supermiddleweights today.

Foster fought numerous bums, guys with negative records, after winning the title. There is no way that Roy Jones or Joe Calzaghe could ever get away with doing that.

Roy Jones would beat Foster worse than Doug Jones did.

More intellectual dishonesty from you - pretending that Jones had a significant size advantage.

 

Jones' best one punch knockout was against Virgil Hill, who went on to win a cruiserweight title at 42, 8 years after Jones broke his ribs.

 

Rusak trollin, brah...

 

People aren't giving Calzaghe much chance? I can see the case for Foster, but Calzaghe had the far better handspeed, workrate, footwork and balance that could potentially see him outbox Foster to a decision

 

Foster's power is in a different constellation from anyone calzaghe ever fought..and that includes jones...Foster connects at some point and Joe is finished..out cold.