Calzaghe aside- who is the GOAT at 168?

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  1. Liquorice

    Liquorice Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    So what? He'd done Fk all at LHW

    Are we meant to give a **** about that win?
     
  2. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yeah, coz it's ****ing Michael Nunn. The weight class is just a number, Nunn entered the ring at 180 against Sosa, and Rocky at 180.5 against Maske.
     
  3. Serge

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    That we will. You can pitch your tent on the side of the hill where all the campers who are wrong pitch theirs and I'll pitch my on the side where all those who are right pitch theirs.


    Close was Euro level at best

    Schommer was a white collar fat pudding in a suit with a padded record who fought to a draw against a 10-5-3 tomato can

    Benn was robbed blind

    Speaking of the blind

    Amaral was a street vendor who was completely blind in one eye when he fought Eubank
     
  4. Bulldog24

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    Tooth fairy time guys.

    Because professional boxing licenses are always given to Stevie Wonder.
     
  5. Serge

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    The supermiddleweight Mauricio Amaral's fight with Eric Lucas last night was called off after Amaral was found to be blind in his right eye.

    Amaral's manager, Mauricio Ozi, said he had just learned the fighter has had the problem for 15 years.

    I've been handling him since 1986 and I'm as surprised as you are to learn this, he said.

    He said Amaral, who has 26 victories by knockout, hits so hard that his fights don't usually last long.

    He said Amaral, who has 26 victories by knockout, hits so hard that his fights don't usually last long. Amaral is the third-ranked contender in both the World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation and is ranked ninth by the World Boxing Council
     
  6. Serge

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  7. Serge

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    Speaking of fairies

    Remember when that fairy Andy Flute sparked out Eubank in the gym?
     
  8. Serge

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    Serge has had his fun.

    To be fair to the monocled one, like his fellow Brit Level SMW warriors Super Joe, Benn, Froch, Watson, Graham, Wharton, Reid, Degale, Woodhall, Francis, Catley, Starie etc. his success is attributed to nothing more than good old fashioned natural talent and hard graft, not from jacking himself silly with industrial amounts of roids like Roid and co did.
     
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  9. Bulldog24

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    Don't make me laugh. Flute himself doesn't claim this, and actually laughed when asked.

    It was a made up fairy tale, by somebody rather insecure.
     
  10. Serge

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    Kenny Nevins begs to differ. He was also in camp with Eubank at the time and he witnessed it with his own eyes. Flute sparked him.

    It was very reminiscent of Flute's KO of Errol McDonald

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  11. Liquorice

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    Ye cos it's Michael Nunn? Is Nunn exempt from ageing & weight restriction? No. Otherwise he's defying the laws of nature .. I've set out the context, if you don't like it that's your problem

    Has there ever been a hint of Kessler taking ephedrine or
    methylephedrine before a fight to enhance his performance like GR before the DM fight? No.

    GR was IBF champion at 168 for a YEAR! His best win was probably Malinga who had an odd career like Glen Johnson in some ways.. lost handily to scrubs but beat or pushed world class ones too.. at the time they fought he was coming off a losing trilogy to a no name

    You can't put this over Kesslers body of work at 168. Who won both the WBA & WBC belts TWICE!

    Being 'better' than Kessler is subjective & your opinion but at 168 the FACTS are that Kessler has achieved way more & will rank ahead of him for doing so. As for fairies.. you're talking about people floating around like weight doesn't matter, not us :lol:
     
  12. Oscar B

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    Joe Calzaghe is the most hardy and many punch boxer of all time
     
  13. Wizbit1013

    Wizbit1013 Drama go, and don't come back Full Member

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    What?
     
  14. Oscar B

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    [QUOTE = "Wizbit1013, сообщение: 20391047, участник: 118672"] Что? [/ QUOTE]
    Sorry, but English is not my first language. I was always amazed at how Joe Calzaghe kept the pace of the fight.
     
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