How hard does Joe Calzaghe hit?

95% of his punches are for the judges. The other 5% are average power shots

 

I guess that relegates all of his defeated opponents to the boxing status of women.


Or did you have some other meaning in mind for a man slapping a woman being good ?

 

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JC is an average puncher, but his slaps are pretty good.

 

He was heavy handed but in the early stages of his career, such as when he knocked down Chris Eubank etc, and he had a very good KO percentage.

However hand troubles set in and he didn't sit down on his punches for fear of breaking them, and therefore his technique goes to **** aswell.

He has the power deep down but he can't use it because he's going to be fighting with broken hands for the rest of the fight.

 

Trouble is a lot of the yank posters never saw anything of him before he fought lacy so they think he only ever slapped atsch

Boxing goes on all over the world btw

 

He had a granite jaw and he could bang in his younger years, as the video I posted demonstrates.

 

thread made me think of this fight straight away

 

Calzaghe KO'd or TKO'd 21 out of his first 22 opponents.

Then he got his first World title fight against granite chinned Chris Eubank, knocked him down but failed to stop him, the next 14 defences of his title he KO'd or TKO'd 9 out of the 14 opponents but damaged his hands in the middle of that run.

Calzaghe then only stopped 2 of his last 9 opponents.

Joe was always an attacking boxer, but his swarming 1000 punches a fight style only came after his hand injuries, which also coincided with Americans taking note of his fights {Lacy onwards}, but up until then Calzaghe was a slick boxer he was never a one punch merchant, he was always a combination knockdown artist, but never the less he was a knockdown artist before his hand injuries.

 

There is a big difference between a KO and a TKO especially when home town refs keep stopping fight prematurely.

 

on a scale of 1-5

hes probably a 3

 

I dont think of him as a puncher, but that cut was caused by a pretty hard punch

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JC didnt have many fights stopped unfairly, but their was a few

 

He's a decent puncher. Not a one shot KO artist but he throws so many that they take their toll.

 

Just because you cut somene does not prove that you great power. I could probably cut Hatton if he let me hit him because he is so cut prone.