OFFICIAL Joe Calzaghe Appreciation Thread

2008 Hopkins would beat Hatton easy. Hatton was too straight forward a fighter to ever hang with Hopkins.

 

To be entirely fair to Calzaghe, in his amatuer days he wanted to go to the Olympics in 1992 and being highly rated on the domestic scene would seem to have been well placed to do so, but the Olympic selection committed snubbed him because they didn't like his attitude and thought he had too big an ego. Had he been selected for Light Middleweight instead of Robin Reid he would have had a chance to prove his worth at the highest level of the amateur scene but he was not allowed that opportunity.

 

how ironic that turned out to be

 

Good god. This again. He won the fight deal with it. Poll after poll after poll after thread. Cool, AP and Yahoo scored it for Hopkins. Most experts scored it for Calzaghe and the fans agree. Outside of some bitter black people.

 

you'd need to pick someone from the same weight division. You'd have to pick a 43 year old Pacquiao for instance.

 

Calzaghe wen't from being overrated to being pretty underrated . He was a great boxer

 

Not the biggest Calzaghe fan but you know you're reaching when you count A. Byrd as a reliable judge. She also had 5 punches a round Ishe Smith beating Molina.

In 10 years from now, you might have people claiming Floyd - Canelo was a draw because of C.J Ross. atsch :-(

 

You hit the nail square on the head and drove it through the four by two there. :good

 

If if..if ... if the queen had balls she would be King.

If Joe fought someone like Mayweather and PAC he STILL would of found a way to win.

Joe is a natural winner. Deal with it 46-0!!:hi:

 

Would he ****! A 168lb version of Pacquiao would walk through Calzaghe and Mayweather would counter him to death! There are two types of fans: Calzaghe fans and general boxing fans. Utterly ****ing deluded, mate!

 

Appreciating the man. 46-0, 2 weight champ, 20+ defenses of his strap. Towards the end, filled stadiums. Some good wins on his resume. Lock HOF'er.

 

How would you KNOW?? Joe out works both of them.

See how easy that was? You said Joe would lose, l said he would win.

It not BEING DELUDED.

IT CALLED OPINION!!!!atsch

 

Well, a big size Mayweather is too slick to get hit by Joe's inaccurate punches, and boxes too well for the whole fight to lose to Joe, whilst a big Pac has the chin to walk through Joe and deck him repeatedly.

can you explain your opinon in the same way?

Because even madmen in padded cells have opinions, doenst make them valid.

 

and Joe would be 44-2 if he'd fought prime legends. Deal with it.

 

a bigger Floyd would be a slower Floyd. :deal Joe would take it to Floyd for the full twelve rounds with non stop punching. Joe would win based on landing more punches as well as activity. Floyd has never been a puncher in the lower weight divisions. so he won't be a puncher going north either. Floyd has difficulties with southpaws to boot. he wouldn't solve the Calzaghe puzzle.

Joe is a natural counter puncher. which style shuts Pac down? exactly. Pac can't really fight on the front foot, so Joe would just have him walk into everything. Calzaghe wins with ease i would imagine.

Pac is the one that's been stopped a handful of times, not Joe. so Pac isn't walking through ****. he tried that with the last Marquez fight and payed the ultimate price by getting put to sleep (literally) with one punch.

Calzaghe wins both those fights based on styles. :deal