Conn-Calzaghe

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  1. johnmaff36

    johnmaff36 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    should have just dropped the hyphen and replaced it with 'man' at the start of the thread
     
    johnmaff36, Mar 11, 2010
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  2. Boro chris

    Boro chris Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Are you drunk?:lol:

    Weirdest post (excluding the lounge obviously I've ever read here.
    Haven't seen much of Conn so I can't really comment on this matchup but I get the feeling Joe is being underated as usual.
     
    Boro chris, Mar 11, 2010
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  3. PowerPuncher

    PowerPuncher Loyal Member Full Member

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    :lol: Funny stuff

    Actually did anyone see the Bika fight, I was pissed and talking to a bird on the phone, but thought it was a mighty close call
     
    PowerPuncher, Mar 11, 2010
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  4. PowerPuncher

    PowerPuncher Loyal Member Full Member

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    I had Hopkins winning, but bare in mind Joe was 36-37 himself, and made it close. Hopkins is nothing like Conn, he is much craftier, better defense and a better counter puncher.

    Conn also doesnt have a particularly deep or earth shattering LHW resume. Calzaghe also in his 168lb fights would at least be as big as Conn who was a small LHW
     
    PowerPuncher, Mar 11, 2010
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  5. PowerPuncher

    PowerPuncher Loyal Member Full Member

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    Froch would look like Lacy in there. The Lacy win is getting underrated now, Joe ruined Lacy and I could tell as I watching it that Lacy was taking too much punnishment, Joes lack of power made it a much more sustained beating. Lacy was battering some pretty decent competition, nothing great but decent, he destroyed Robin Reid who was the rightful IBF/WBA champ
     
    PowerPuncher, Mar 11, 2010
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  6. HerolGee

    HerolGee Loyal Member banned Full Member

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    lacy was destroyed by shot2**** roy jones, he was **** all he could do was punch. when he beat reid read was ****.
     
    HerolGee, Oct 27, 2013
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  7. ribtickler68

    ribtickler68 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You've got Billy Conn, who nearly beat Joe Louis against Calzaghe who struggled to beat Hopkins! ****ing hell does the Joe love in know no bounds? I don't even consider Joe a great fighter, never mind capable of beating people like Conn! Calzaghe's on the level of "very good", not great!
     
    ribtickler68, Oct 27, 2013
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  8. Surf-Bat

    Surf-Bat Boxing Addict Full Member

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    This.
     
    Surf-Bat, Oct 28, 2013
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  9. Bummy Davis

    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Conn was a strong Light Heavyweight I like him here
     
    Bummy Davis, Oct 29, 2013
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  10. SLAKKA

    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Anyone picking Calzaghe over Billy Conn would have the ghosts of Joe Louis and Jack Blackburn laughing in their graves!
     
    SLAKKA, Nov 5, 2013
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  11. Jon Saxon

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    Calzaghe = SM GOAT.

    Conn = old skool fighter with old skool skiils AND LOW OUTPUT.

    Calzaghe UD.
     
    Jon Saxon, Nov 6, 2013
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  12. HOUDINI

    HOUDINI Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Conn koed hwts and nearly beat Joe Louis. He would go in as a favorite against Calzaghe and would not disappoint.
     
    HOUDINI, Nov 6, 2013
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  13. Vysotskyy

    Vysotskyy Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Honestly what does Conn's success against a 6'2 210lb Louis have to do with him facing a 6'0 LHW swarmer with the movement and volume of Calzaghe? Conn's MW and LHW record is far more relevant beating Yarosz, Apostoli, Kreiger, Lesnevich including two Southpaws in Bettina and Corbett.
     
    Vysotskyy, Nov 6, 2013
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  14. HOUDINI

    HOUDINI Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What's relevant is that Conn could take a hwts punch and hit hard enough to ko hwts, hurt and almost beat Joe Louis.
     
    HOUDINI, Nov 6, 2013
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  15. SLAKKA

    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Pardon am way but Billy weighed 169 vs Louis and was clearly at his all time peak as a fighter that nite.
    Just beginning to touch his prime at 23 ys old and power punching Joe like hell!
    And this according to Pittsburgh fight scribes Harry Keck-Regis Welsch-Havey Boyle et all, and there were none better.
    Choosing him on any other nite in a fantasy fight is very ???????
     
    SLAKKA, Nov 6, 2013
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