Scurla Can Enzo Maccarenelli now take over from Joe Calzaghe as the new leading light in the Calzaghe Camp / Welsh / British Boxing ????????
Nah Scurla I'm not getting drawn in to wether he would beat Pavlik or Tarver or Taylor etc I'm just saying that his fight with Hopkins looks like a good performance when you see how Hopkins dominated guys either side of the Calzaghe fight
Pretty good resume, but could have been a lot better. Purely on a resume basis he may just sneak into a top 100 list. Maybe. Just. His ability can't be questioned. He just always got the job done, no matter how he looked.
Now I know your blowing smoke out off your ass Joe ***** slapped Hopkins until he didn't know what to do except feign low blows. Shane beat Margarito yep so did Williams, and Cotto might have except for the wraps. Hopkins exposed Pavlik as one dimensional, Joe would have embarrassed him. .....Pac versus the ghost of Del a Hoya, boring as **** ,It helps if the other man can lift his gloves
If he stays retired then he will be only the second lineal champion ever to remain undefeated and untied.
It seems that winning is not enough I'm afraid. Unless he perfected his punching technique, never used a promoter for promotion purposes, only had 26 relevent fights (none for the WBO), was highly motivated every time and was upbeat about boxing as Steve Bunce - then and only then can I accept that he was a good champion worthy of comparison to some of the best British boxers since 2005.
A great fighter who could have achieved more. Hope he enjoys retirement and doesn't get lured back into the ring.
A good win, the performance was ****. And i agree with what you saying about Hopkins, He looked old and past his sell by date against Calzaghe but came back to dominate Pavlik with an outstanding performance proving that he wasn't finished after all. I'm gad Calzaghe never re-matched Hopkins because the style clash was shocking.
I don't think he performed **** against Hopkins. I assumed he did immediately post-fight, but the more I watch it the more I thought he did extremely well against the worst style he could ever face.
I'm disappointed and a bit shocked. For all of Joe’s talk about legacy, his last fight was against a man who was nearly a decade past his peak. I really thought he would have had one last bout in Wales. Everyone knows of the question marks and holes regarding Calzaghe’s career, but he did unify the SM division and for that I salute him!