joe calzaghe

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  1. DoubleJ

    DoubleJ Active Member Full Member

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    Not a technique any instructor would ever recommend but he made it work for him and that's what matters. He used it to get wins.

    Not an overly impressive resume IMO. He's nowhere near as great as this board makes him, nor the bum his detractors say he was.

    Overall, a guy with a couple of decent wins, a borderline HOF'er IMO. Let's face it, 168 is a very new division in the sport and wasn't deep during Joe's reign and the HOF ballot he appeared on was even weaker.
     
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  2. Tramell

    Tramell Hypocrites Love to Pray & Be Seen. Mathew 6:5 Full Member

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    Didn't like his style, but enjoyed watching him pummel Left Hook and nullifying Kessler's skills.
     
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  3. HerolGee

    HerolGee Loyal Member banned Full Member

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    top 3 brit smw, top five h2h brit smw, top ten world smw, that deserves some respect given some crummy roots, even for an embryonic division like smw.
     
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    Herol triggered :lol:
     
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    HerolGee Loyal Member banned Full Member

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    theres a difference between my praise and what say, cj wrote.

    You'll take a while to admit that, you being bcs.
     
  6. BCS8

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    I'm just rattling your cage. Go back to sleep.
     
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  7. MAJR

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    Calzaghe and Froch I assume, but Benn or Eubank for the other?

    Again, Calzaghe, Froch, Eubank and Benn but who's the fifth one? Reid, Woodhall, Cately, DeGale and Groves are the other other Brits to have won any of the big World Titles, or are you counting Watson?
     
  8. HerolGee

    HerolGee Loyal Member banned Full Member

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    i would say benn cos he dared

    h2h herolgee of course. c'mon, its me. gotta be some bias.
     
  9. C.J.

    C.J. Boxings Living Legend revered & respected by all Full Member

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    I wouldn't know about that. But I suppose its a dig against Ike Ibeabuchi Huh ?? Well Ike said he never touched that hooker I;d believe a man I knew & saw almost daily for several years over any Vegas hooker. She was not hurt in any way neither were the police that attended. Knowing Ike if he;d have resisted they would have been. I'm glad you described her as what she was a hooker. In court they claimed she was an innocent little girl that just came to dance for him ROFL
     
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    C.J. Boxings Living Legend revered & respected by all Full Member

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    That's why the wussie ducked a rematch in Wales & hit the skids He knew Nard was coming for him & RAN!!!!!!
     
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  11. LD Boxer-Puncher

    LD Boxer-Puncher Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Sugar Ray Leonard overrated? :duh

    Come on mate
     
  12. C.J.

    C.J. Boxings Living Legend revered & respected by all Full Member

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    A talented fighter yes but a man ? Not in my book. He sold Donald Curry down the river by doing behind his back & getting the Hagler fight for himself while supposedly retired & working for Don Plus they robbed Marvin. Leonard deserved to go out like he did against Camacho EMBARASSED
     
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    LD Boxer-Puncher Well-Known Member Full Member

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    It's boxing though, not reality TV, can't vote him out of the ATG list, or Hall of Fame because you don't like his personality
     
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    Odins beard Fentanyl is one hell of a drug.... Full Member

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    Throwing stones in glass houses springs to mind in regards to you calling Calzaghe about his outside of boxing lifestyle when Ibeabuchi is a convicted sex pest.
     
  15. HerolGee

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    selecting a 40something ATG is the embarrassment, few figthers have stooped so low in such relativeltycowardly fashion. god forbid camacho had bowed out facing 2 fortysomething ATGs, that would be a low indeed.