Better fighter: Johnny Tapia or Joe Calzaghe?

it's a legitimate thread and a legitimate question. I was talking **** about the quality of calzaghe fights, which is not really debatable. i do hate calzaghe but i didn't provide an answer to the topic cause its very close for me:think

 

Nothing to love about a past it warrior like Tapia getting beat up by Barrera, i love both those guys but felt bad for Johnny in that fight.

Tapia/Ayala I was a great fight that could have went either way. Tapia was robbed in the 2nd fight though.
To the TM id rate Johnny higher he is the greatest JB of all time and COULD have gotten a 4th title at JF.

As for Joe Calzaghe he made a ton of defenses at SM, but in all honesty i dont think he was all that spectacular as his SM stats say he is. Beating Kessler,Old Hopkins(arguably) were good wins as the ones over Byron Mitchell,Charles Brewer,but id say Tapia gets the nod here.

 

Tapia got his big pay day against Barrera. I was actually happy for him in that sense.

 

I admit it's been awhile since I saw that fight. I couldn't find it on youtube.

 

What has Calzaghe done more impressive to say hes an ATG and Tapia isnt?

 

Got to love Calzaghe's father "Trust me!, Trust ME!!, TRUST ME!!!!!".

Voted Calzaghe of course.

 

right, here we go.. better chin, faster hands, more heart, greater will, better at adapting than any fighter over the past 20 - 30 years, better at fighting on the back foot, maybe even the front foot, all round ring IQ.

 

What fights have you watched of Tapia, Scar? Just curious.

 

I dont know how much he got against Romero but that fight was heavily hyped in the US and was on the cover of Ko,Ring magazines. I remember HBO broadcasting the fight(dont know if it was PPV), im sure Tapia got a good payday for that as well as the Ayala rematch.

Tapia/Barrera would have been a very competetive fight had it been at JB/BT/JF and in his prime, however when he fought Barrera he was almost 36(ancient for the smaller weights) and he was lucky to get the nod over Manuel Medina in the previous fight. I knew going in that Barrera was gonna beat him up. 2 huge names and highly anticipated on paper or to the casual fan. I think Marco could have stopped him but held back towards the end on his buddy.

 

name the fighters that were better, and what fights they did it in?

 

Johnny Tapia down once in his career before becoming a shot item. Joe Calzaghe down multiple times, against Bernard Hopkins, Byron Mitchell, and Roy Jones Jr.

Have you watched Johnny Tapia at Super Flyweight? The man was rapid, and certainly possessed faster hands than Calzaghe, both in combination and with single shots.

****ing clown shoes. :!:

****ing clown shoes. :blood

Johnny Tapia had the capacity to adapt, as he shown by out-boxing the hard-punching Danny Romero in their showdown.

Completely false. I don't recall Calzaghe beating any of his top tier opposition on the back foot? :huh


Watch more Johnny Tapia. I have one of his fights on my YT channel. Enjoy.

 

All Scar knows is that Tapia only beat one African American:roll: Good enough for him