do you rate joe calzaghe alongside the greats?

At SMW yes

 

without a doubt a top ten SMW, since he briefly unified titles that guyslike Ottke and Kessler defended multiple times.

But its not all abot making unified defences, Joe also made as many valid single title defences as froch.

 

Yes without a doubt.

 

For sure one ATGs he was a BIG puncher in his early career then with his brittle hands had no option but to box more, so changed his boxing style -not easy to do. He a handful for any era.

 

Arguable as the top 168 guy ever. He'd have to be a great.

 

His style of boxing wasn't my favorite but he is an undefeated former world champ. If you look at his record Kessler and Hopkins (as Hopkins still had some good wins after Calzaghe) were 2 great wins, forget the Roy Jones win as Jones was totally finished and I think a prime Jones destroys Calzaghe. Anyway I think he is a great and deserves to be mentioned in fantasy fights of past greats.

 

Absolutely not. He avoided far far far too many fights, fought too many complete nobodies at times when he should have been fighting world class opponents, and finally when he did fight a couple of big fights they were against people way over the hill.

No fighting guts what-so-ever.

 

Sure, the man had style and he got to fight his hero, Roy Jones Jr., who him and his dad admired and copied his entire essence. Joe saw the writing on the wall when he started getting old, got that money and split. Plus in Joe the coke lord Calzaghe's defense about his fight record lets not forget that boxing POLITICS have existed long before Al Haymon and Floyd.

In his own words after Jones fight.

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P.S.- I still dislike the Brits. I hope Ruiz KO's Joshua tonight.

 

not really

 

Lennox Lewis must have had you in tears on the 29th April 2000

 

wow shot jones, who got steamrolled by Enzo and co, actually hit joe quite a lot in the face. Joe was quite easy to hit, good thing he had chin enough to be able to get up from kos if not quite strong enough to stop being knocked down by fortysomethings in the division above.

 

Joe would never duck that roided up HGH machine Roid Jones.

 

true, because you can't "duck" someone that you openly express you arent fighting. duck imlpies that you were in a position to face them but turned it down.

"I'm not chasing roy jones" - Joe calzaghe (direct quote), quite rightly saying this because he was a ten year owner of the then unrecognised wbo title that noone wanted , and he was not on anyones radar nor in his own birth country's newspapers until lacy. "I know what I'm worth".

 

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