Peak Joe Calzaghe Versus Peak RJJ and B-Hop

I don't see Calzaghe winning.

 

He beats B-Hop, prime B-Hop at middleweight beat 2 blown up welterweights in Trinidad and De La Hoya and a green Glen Johnson, who else?
Jones is tougher, but he can certainly have success.

 

He loses to both

 

He has a chance against both.

 

Still zaggers for me.

 

I have to have Jones and Hopkins. While it should be noted that Calzaghe wasn’t prime either in his meetings with those men, I think it’s fair to say that they were significantly more removed from their respective pinnacles than he was.

 

Joe might have success with Hopkins still due to his output, but who was peak Calzaghe anyway? Let's assume this is the same Calzaghe(2006) as the one who beat Jeff Lacy, the Hopkins(2002) who just beat Carl Daniels and the Roy Jones(1995) who just beat Vinnie Paz.

Let's just take out the 1995 version of Roy Jones since I can't see any fighter in history besting him at 168 let alone Joe Calzaghe and Hopkins. Calzaghe admitted himself that he didn't want anything to do with a prime Roy in his prime and for good reason. His attributes are maxed at this weight and time period, better speed, power, reflexes, punch arsenal.

So then it boils down to Joe Calzaghe vs Bernard Hopkins again, this time younger versions of themselves at 168 instead of 175. To be honest, if you really studied their original fight closely, nothing really happened besides Calzaghe throwing a couple slaps and karate chops to win him some rounds because he couldn't land anything effective vs that old man version of Hopkins. Every time Calzaghe would throw a proper punch, Hopkins would immediately counter and win the exchanges. Calzaghe would then commit to throwing his signature slaps which were ineffective and mostly or partially blocked. A poster here a while ago went into great detail explaining that fight and most importantly Calzaghe's punching technique in general. It begged the question, should Calzaghe's karate chops and slaps be considered legal scoring blows?

That being said, these two would always have close fights with each other but if we're talking prime versions then I still feel Hopkins would take the edge, he'd have more stamina this time around and would land the more significant blows. I thought he won their original fight, no way do I think Calzaghe would win in their respective primes.

 

0-2.

 

Calzaghe loses both. He is the King of good timing.

 

Lies, Slappy Joe only loses fights in bitter butthurt fanboy fantasies.

 

Loses to both and badly to Jones Jr.

 

Joe loses a decision to both. b hop while still retaining a lot of his skill was like 43 when they fought and Jones was pushing 40 and shot.

 

Calzaghe loses to both of them

 

Would lose to Jones Hopkins is 50/50 i could see either guy winning but would be a close fight either way kinda like their actual fight