No amateur career, learning on the job ,overmatched as a youngster. Someone needs to tell me how he beat 8 world champions, none of whom were 40 years old. Conn was a great lightheavyweight champion, Calzaghe was not.
Hard to say, because we don´t have a good amount of footage of Conn at his best..... Contrary to the common opinion I think Calzaghe is a force H2H.....well, at least against some opponents, I think he wouldn´t be an easy night for anyone, Conn and other greats included.
Calzaghe beat 2 lhvy's ,one was near 40, he had won 3 of his last 6, the other was 43, he had won 2 of his last 4.Both floored him.
I stick with my estimation from 5 years ago. Calzaghe is too fast, hits harder and follows a game plan much better. He is just much more seamless. Conn could be erratic and gambled with the openings he left. Still, it's closer to a toss up than a sure thing either way.
Agreed, he doesn't get kudos on the Classic because like Mayweather he cherry picked, didn't take that many risks and had a fear of losing. But like Mayweather he was very dominant, bar a couple of close fights. Dominance and performances like he'd give show he was 1 of the elites in history from 168-175 in my view. I think most boxers recognise that he was very very good. Stamina wise maybe 1 of the best ever. BTW Calzaghe also had pretty fast feet when younger and even past prime.
Yes, I know that....he beat Jones clearly but IMO Hopkins won the fight to be fair, but I think that wasn´t the best version of Calzaghe either...
I have to agree 100%. As for Calzaghe-Conn, can you explain why you think Conn's performance, even in loss against Louis, was overrated? It seems like a career-defining performance to me in that he went up in weight to face one of the top 5 all-time heavyweights, and frankly, outboxed him for most of the fight. This was prime Louis too.