Calzaghe was a very good fighter. He gets way overrated by some, and way underrated by others. I wouldn't mind someone putting him inside a top 100 fighters of all time list, but there were several that fought around the same time as him who rank much higher. He aged very well as a fighter, and I don't buy into the fact that he was shot or even out of his prime in his last few fights.
The only one who is butthurt is Slappy Joe who took it in the ass from Frank ****** in exchange for easy opponents.
Joe laid out on many occasions how much of a cherry picker/ducker he was. The funniest part is when his fans, despite all of Joe's on the record remarks, act like he was a take all comers fighter....or that any real great would be afraid of a slap master.
His fans love to say he was avoided. The truth is, he was a very good/great fighter, who could have pushed himself a lot harder than he did. When he couldn't fight Ottke, he should have moved up to 175 and gone to America. If he'd have impressed and moved up the rankings, who knows what would have happened.
Joe himself said he would only fight certain guys if given "the crown jewels." He also famously said he was fighting Roy Jones when Jones "wasn't that good anymore." This is on the record. How can his fans explain this?
He was such a scumbag. He pretended like he was raping that guy that he dropped. I cant wait for Joe to drug overdose again. Joe cant punch thru a wet paper bag. Never beat anyone good. Never fought a live body.
They never address it as you can see by the comments here, they'll still try and beat around the bush, ignoring the amount of contradictions Calzaghe has stated through the years, he feasted on Euro bums for the majority of his career.
Funny really because we're now 10 pages into this thread and who's leading post count? You. That's 19 posts of you slagging off Calzaghe as if he violated you personally. That's pretty much the definition of "butthurt".