Calzaghes legacy is growing greater by the day

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  1. bailey

    bailey Loyal Member Full Member

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    Calzaghes legacy is growing by the day, and its all down to the hype of Ward and Hopkins.

    Calzaghe beat Hopkins clearly, if you doubt that so much answer these questions
    1. If Hopkins thought he was winning, why would he be faking low blows trying to get points deducted?
    2. Who do you think won round 11? The lone judge that scored for Hopkins gave that round to Hopkins (a clear Calzaghe round).
    The other judges got it right. In truth people cant except Joe won and have trouble living with it on these pages, but consider this, In Hopkins 2 fights with Taylor combined, Taylors lead on the scorecards is less points combined than Joes lone fight with Hopkins.
    Calzaghe beat Hopkins in a new division he hadnt fought before in America with Cortez as ref and with 3 American judges. He also beat Hopkins in between some of, if not Hopkins biggest wins of Tarver, Wright and Pavlik. For all those people who claim Hopkins was shot, tend to think that version of Hopkins would beat a younger version of himself. If they thought Hopkins was so shot and critisise Joe for beating him, why did they want a return :lol:.
    Now these same people are excited about Hopkins fighting the younger Pascal over 2 and a 1/2 years later, when they thought Bernard was shot then :lol:.

    Now Ward is getting all this praise for beating a fighter Calzaghe beat when past his prime who was undefeated and healthy whilst Ward gets praise for using Joes game plan of backing Kessler up and headbutting a rusty, double vision suffering fighter, 2 years later :patsch. For all the delusional, look at the scorecards of the 2 respective fights and see they are not greatly dissimilar.
    Then Ward beats A Green who had lost to Miranda, and is next fighting another fighter that Calzaghe gave his first official loss to 4 years earlier. Once again Wards at home, which is more than Joe had been at the same stages of their careers :lol:. Something else people try and critisise.

    Consider this, all wins come back to Calzaghe as he remained undefeated, so if Hopkins wins it looks good for Joe.
    I bet your all praying Ward dosent lose now, but if he does lose to Bika, Froch or Abraham it looks great on Joe :smooch
     
  2. rayrobinson

    rayrobinson Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Joe really is a super fighter and probably the best british boxer since Ken Buchanan. Needs to be remembered .
     
  3. earthwormjim

    earthwormjim Boxing fanatic Full Member

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    Calzaghe is the greatest super middleweight ever. Shame Roy Jones jnr moved past smw to lh as that would of been a classic!!
     
  4. Round1gymDC

    Round1gymDC Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yea him using coke really helped his legacy out. In the states we call him coke head cal.
     
  5. rayrobinson

    rayrobinson Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yeah Mayweather beating up women really helped his legacy out. The rest of the world calls him Florence Crackweather.

    Loser.
     
  6. Round1gymDC

    Round1gymDC Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ok and your point is? I'm not making threads about Floyds legacy growing so stfu stupid
     
  7. ramsgate-chap

    ramsgate-chap GURU Full Member

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    whats that got to do with his boxing career? tons of fighters have led troubled lives AFTER there retirement and it should not affect there legacy inside the ring.
     
  8. sportofkings

    sportofkings Boxing Junkie banned

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    Im not comparing Calaghe with Whitaker but Whitaker used coke did that diminish his legacy?
     
  9. bailey

    bailey Loyal Member Full Member

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    Completely unfounded during his career, but lets remember the American fighters that have used something to assist their performances like Jones, Toney, Mosely and the speculation around many others working with Balco for inhalers and other assisted sources
     
  10. SomeGuy101

    SomeGuy101 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It's true. Peeps calling Calzaghe 'stay at home Joe' but what is Ward doing if not fighting at home and with Calzaghe's leftovers?
     
  11. time

    time Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Calzahge was good alrite but instead of relying on others to improve his legacy he should have fought on for 2 or so more fights, against dawson in particular. Dawson was as a lot of people thought, a hype job and ill bet calzaghe regrets now not fighting him after seeing his performance against pascal
     
  12. number10

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    For me, calzaghe is the best british boxer we've ever had
     
  13. I wonder why all these black Americans hate Calzaghe (an all time great) with such a passion? I just can't put my finger on it.
     
  14. bailey

    bailey Loyal Member Full Member

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    People say that a career is enhanced when you have a legend on your resume.
    Joe has -
    Hopkins, who was Ring LHW champ, and P4P #3,
    Jones who was in The Ring top 10 at time of fight
    Eubank who was involved in 24 world title fights.

    Interestingly for all the people that want to say Jones was shot when Joe beat him, consider that in Jones next fight after Calzaghe he fought Sheika, stopping him in 5 rounds. The same Sheika that last night Fri 15th Oct 10. Gave A Diaconu a tough fight flooring him and losing on points. The same Diaconu who has only been beaten by Pascal, (who beat Dawson), first time in a close competetive fight
     
  15. spud1

    spud1 HAWK TIME!!!! Full Member

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    Calzaghe is a great fighter no doubt, would have been intereting to see him against the top dogs around his division when they were more effective.

    He would have been beaten by Toney BHOP and jones if he had moved his career to the states sooner.